Professional Service Positions of Responsibility

1. Chairman, MEITY Committee for Indian Language Standards, 2024-25.
2. Member of Delegation, IIT Bombay Research Park team visiting Japan, 18 to 22 March, 2024.
3. Member At Large, Asian Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), 2023-24.
4. General Co-Chair, CODS-COMAD-23, Mumbai. January 2023.
5. Professor Incharge, IIT Bombay-Monash Australia Academy,2021-2024. (https://www.iitbmonash.org/)
6. General Chair, Int'l Conf. on NLP (ICON 2021), NIT Silchar, Dec 21.
7. President, NLP Association of India. 2021-22.
8. Editor Journal of Natural Language Engineering Cambridge University Press.
9. General co-Chair AIMLSys Conference, 23-25 October, 2021, Bangalore, India.
10. Member of the Governing Council (GC) of Centre of Advance Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL), Reserve Bank of India.
11. Member Core Faculty, Center for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (C-MInDS), IIT Bombay.
12. Prof. Incharge Data and Information Sciences Program, under Institute of Eminence, IIT Bombay.
13. Member, Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence, NITI Ayog, 2019.
14. Chairman, Academic Advisory Committee, NIELET, 2018.
15. Subeditor Artificial Intelligence Magazine, 2019.
16. Senior Program Committee member (SPC), IJCAI 2019.
17. Chairman, Advisory Committee to Andhra Pradesh Govt. on Aritificial Intelligence Incorporation in e-Office, from December, 2018.
18. Board Member NIT Patna,NIT Jamshedpur, NIELT.
19. Founder member, Asian Association for Computational Linguistics (AACl), 2017.
20. Chairman, Committee for Standardization in Artificial Intelligence, set up by Bureau of Indian Standards under Ministry of Consumer Affairs (members: (a) IISC Bengaluru, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIIT Hyderabad; (b) MeitY, Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIR); (c) TCS, Google India, IBM India, Samsung, CSI (Computer society of India), IBM Research, Intel Research, and Microsoft Research), 2018
21. Member, Committee on Artificial Intelligence set up by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Task: policy formulation in Platform and Data for AI), 2018
22. Member, Working Group, Asia Pacific Association of Computational Linguistics (representative of ACL Executive Committee)
23. Member Technical Advisory Committee for Computer and Communication Sciences (CCSD), Indian Statistical Institute, 2016-2018
24. President, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016-17
25. Area Chair for NLP, IJCAI 2016
26. Vice President, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2015-16
27. Vice President elect, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2014-15
28. Chair, Asian Language Resources Committee, Asian Federation on NLP (AFNLP), 2013-14
29. Founding member, South Asian Association for Language Prcoessing (SAALP) (involving SAARC countries), 2005
30. Member, National Board of Accreditation, India, 2011
31. Chair, Project Review and Steering Committee, North East Language Technology Projects, 2008-10

Editorship
• Associate Editor, ACM Transaction on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), July 1, 2010 to December 31, 2011.
• Associate Editor, (Sadhana), 2012 to 2015.

Reviewer
• ACM Transactions in Asian Language Information Processing
• IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering
• IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks
• Pattern Recognition Journal
• Machine Translation Journal
• Natural Language Engineering Journal

Program committee
• Annual Meeting of Assocation of Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• Computational Linguistics Conference (COLING)
• Conference on Empirical Methods in NLP (EMNLP
• Annual Meeting of North American Assocation of Computational Linguistics (NAACL)
• Machine Translation Summit (MT Summit)
• International Conference on Global Wordnets (GWC)
• Language Resources Engineering Conference (LREC)
• International Conference on Knowledge Based Computer Systems (KBCS)
• International Conference on Foundation of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FST & TCS
• International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
• Workshop on Cross lingual Information Access- Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies, IJCAI 2007

Conference/Workshop/Symposia organization
• Organizing Chair 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), IIT Bombay, India, December, 2012
• Organizing Chair 5th International Conference on Global Wordnet, IIT Bombay, India, Jan 31-Feb 4, 2010
• Summer workshop on Ontology,NLP, IE and IR, IIT Bombay, India, July, 2008
• Symposium on Modelling and Shallow Parsing of Indian Languages, IIT Bombay, India, April, 2006
• International Conference on Universal Knowledge and Languages, Goa, India, November 2002
• Universal Networking Language Summer School, Mumbai, India, April, 2003
• International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Mumbai, India, January, 1998


Institute and Department Services
• Vice Chairman, GATE: 1999 (IIT Bombay: organizing institute)
• Department Post Graduate Committee Member 2008 till date
• Scholarship committee chair, 2007-2008
• IIT Bombay Hindi Web page construction committee: Convener, 2011
Courses conducted for leading industries of India and abroad
• Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic, March-April, 2000.
• Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, October, 1998.
• Operating Systems Principles and UNIX, February, 1997.
• Artificial Intelligence Programming, January, 1996.
• UNIX Internals, April, 1996.