Dr. Pitambar Behera (OES-I) — Product Manager
Dr. Pitambar Behera is currently serving as an, Assistant Professor under Odisha Education Service (OES-I) OPSC, P.G. Department of English, Govt. Women's College, Sambalpur, Department of Higher Education, Govt. of Odisha and has completed his Ph.D. from Centre for Linguistics, SLL & CS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr. Behera has an industrial research experience of four years in Google Inc., Ministry of Information & Technology, Govt. of India, ezDI and and 6.5 years of teaching experience as a Linguist-Researcher and professor. He has published 42 research papers by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Scopus, Bahri and other UGC-Care listed journals. To his credit, he also has contributed more than 50 research paper presentations, 52 participations, 28 session chairs and invited talks, 8 induction/orientation/RCs/FDPs, 6 awards, 2 interviews, 5 projects, a few review and program committee members of top-notch journals and conferences. He was a part of the development team of products and applications such as Google Assistant App (Hindi), English-Odia Machine Translation (Google Translate App), first POS tagsets, NERs, POS taggers, machine-readable corpora, online dictionaries for Sambalpuri and Odia. He has worked in 17 languages of India including German and English in linguistics. He has taken Sambalpuri and Odia to national and international fora like Linguistics Society of Nepal, Adam Mackwiecz University, Poland, Endangered and Lesser-known Languages Conference, Agra; European Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Iceland etc. He is associated with projects at Charles University, Prague; Ravenshaw University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Florence, Italy, ILCI, MCIT, Govt. of India and so on. He has been a review committee member of DCTE course module for RIE Bhopal, NCERT; course writer for Machine Translation, IGNOU and technical glossaries development for Indian languages under, CSTT, Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education, Govt. of India. His research interests include the intersections of NLP, AI, linguistics, and literature.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Linguist specializing in Natural Language Processing and AI applications.
Location: Delhi, India
Experience: 11 yrs 11 mos
Skills
- Natural Language Processing
Career Highlights
- Published 42 research papers in top journals.
- Contributed to Google Assistant and Machine Translation projects.
- Active in national and international linguistic conferences.
Work Experience
Indian Red Cross Society -IRCS (National Headquarters, New Delhi India)
District Convenor Secretary (1 yr 11 mos)
Government of Odisha - Higher Education Department
Assistant Professor (OES-I) Gazetted (7 yrs 5 mos)
Computational Linguist (1 yr)
Ministry of Eletronics & Information Technology (Government of India)
Junior Linguist (1 yr 3 mos)
ezDI Inc - Healthcare solutions
Speech Annotator-Linguist (1 yr 2 mos)
Takshashila Institute
English Teacher (1 yr 2 mos)
Ankan School of Fine Arts
Spoken English Teacher (1 mo)
Bishoi Study Circle
English Teacher (2 yrs)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Introduction to R at Data Camp
Introduction to Python for Data Science at Data Camp
Master’s Degree at Annamalai University
M.Phil. at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU)
Bachelor in Education (B.Ed.) at English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Master of Arts (M.A.) at Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur, Odisha, India
Bachelor’s Degree at Gangadhar Meher University (GMU), Sambalpur