Welcome to my homepage! I am Plaban, an Associate Professor in the Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (CoEAI) at IIT Kharagpur . Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur, I worked as a research scientist in the TCS Innovation Labs for two years.
I have received PhD and MS degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and received B. Tech. degree from University of Calcutta
Research Area
Artificial Intelligence in Education:Application of Natural Language Processing and graph-based models in educational technology problems like automated answer grading, question generation etc. We are prsently focussing on explanable grading models and robustness of LLMs in automated grading models.
Digital Library:The problems of prime interest include scientific information extraction, metadata extraction, scientific discourse segmentation etc. Information network models and their analysis including bibliographic information network, academic genealogy networks.
Graph Machine Learning:We have started exploring graph machine learning approaches towards biological, NLP, social network problems.
