Dr. Niladri Chatterjee

Soumitra Dutta Chair Professor of Artificial Intelligence Prof. (HAG) Department of Mathematics, School of IT, School of AI IIT Delhi, INDIA
Dr. Niladri Chatterjee is a Professor of Computer Science & Statistics in the Department of Mathematics, IIT Delhi. His primary research areas are Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistical Modeling, Mathematical Reasoning, Rough Sets. His association with IIT Delhi is of 22 years. Before that, he had worked as a Lecturer in the Dept. of Computer science, University of London, and a Computer Engineer (Software) at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. In between he has been a Visiting Professor in Dipartimento di Informatica Department of Informatics) University of Pisa, Italy. He possesses BStat and MStat degrees from Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta. He also did his MTech in Computer science from the same institute and PhD in Computer Science from the University of London. He has written more than 100 papers in international and national journals and conferences. He received the “Best Paper” award in CICLING-conference, Haifa, Israel; and also received the “ Best Paper” award and the Raizada memorial shield by Computer Society of India. He is also the recipient of UNDP scholarship for month-long training in INRIA France. He is also the recipient of Commonwealth Scholarship of the British Council.
He is a member of the National Standardization Committee for Artificial Intelligence, Bureau of India Standards Gov. Of India. He is also a research committee chair of the school of Information technology at IIT Delhi. He is also a member of the core committee of Forthcoming Centre of excellence AI and ML, IIT Delhi.

He has supervised 10 Ph.D. thesis and more than 100 Master thesis. Currently, seven students are working for their PhDs under his supervision. He is a regular reviewer of Computer Speech and Language (Elsevier), TALLIP (ACM) Springer, Pattern Recognition Letters, Defence Science Journal among others. He is currently the PI of several Govt. And industrial projects.

Specialization and research interests:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Fuzzy and Rough Sets
  • Machine Learning
  • Statistical Modeling

Ref: https://web.iitd.ac.in/~niladri/