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LEADERSHIP ROLES
Chairman Roles:
- Chairman, Committee on “FREE-AI Fostering Responsible and Ethical Enablement of Artificial Intelligence” with the goal of setting up a gold standard for use of AI in Fintech, established by Reserve Bank of India, 26 December, 2024.
- Chairman of the National Committee on “Indian Language Standards” by the Ministry of Electronics and IT to examine the encoding, font, search performance, and language technology applications for all 23 official languages of the country, 2024-25.
- AI Standardization Committee, India: Chair of the LITD30, mirror of SC42 of ISO.
- Chairman of the AI Standardization Committee of the Government of India and a member of the Governing Council of the Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (CAFRAL), set up by the Reserve Bank of India.
- 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
Notable Previous Leadership:
- President, Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016–17.
- Vice President, ACL, 2015.
- Founding Member, Asian Association for Computational Linguistics (AACL), 2017.
- Chairman, Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence for Andhra Pradesh Government, 2018.
International & Institute-Level Roles:
- Prof. In-charge, IIT Bombay-Monash Academy, 2021–2024 (iitbmonash.org).
- Director, IIT Patna, 2015–2020.
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MEMBERSHIP & HONORARY POSITIONS
Professional Committees:
- Member-at-Large, Asian Federation of NLP (2019–present).
- Member, Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Ministry of Electronics & IT (2018–present).
- Technical Advisory Committee, Indian Statistical Institute (2016–2018).
Honorary Positions:
- Senior Program Committee, International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI, 2019).
- Chair, Academic Advisory Committee, NIELIT, Ministry of Electronics & IT (2018–2020).
Institute-Level Memberships:
- Core Faculty, Center for Machine Intelligence and Data Science (C-MInDS), IIT Bombay (since 2019).
- Member, Advisory Committee on Artificial Intelligence, NITI Aayog (since 2019).
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EDITORIAL & REVIEW ROLES
Editorial & Review Roles:
- Journal of Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press (Editorial Committee, inducted 2021).
- Neurocomputing Journal, Elsevier (Associate Editor, NLP, inducted 2020).
- AI Magazine, American Association for AI (Associate Editor, since 2018).
Conference & Journal Review:
- Reviewed for top NLP & AI conferences, including ACL, LREC, AAAI, EMNLP, NAACL, IJCAI, UAI
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CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION & INVOLVEMENT
General Chair Roles:
- CODS-COMAD 2023, Mumbai (General Co-Chair).
- AIML-Sys 2021, Bangalore (General Co-Chair).
- Int’l Conference on NLP, 2021 (General Chair).
Program Committee / Area Chair:
- Roles at major NLP and AI conferences such as ACL, LREC, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, IJCAI, UAI.
International Leadership:
- Chair, International Computational Linguistics Conference 2012, Global Wordnet Conference 2010.
- General Chair, International Conf. on Data Science and Management of Data 2023 (CODS-COMAD ’23).
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INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION & CONTRIBUTION
Delegations & Collaborations:
- Member, IIT Bombay Research Park Team, Japan (March 2024).
Global Leadership:
- Member, Asia Pacific Association of Computational Linguistics (APACL) (representative of ACL Executive Committee, 2018-2020).
- Member, Technical Advisory Committee for Computer and Communication Sciences, Indian Statistical Institute (2016-2018).
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MEMBERSHIP/FELLOWSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Key memberships:
- Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023–2024.
- Governing Council, CAFRAL (2020–2023).
- Member-at-Large, Asian Federation of NLP (2019–present).
Advisory & Committee Roles:
- Member, Committee on Artificial Intelligence, Ministry of Electronics & IT (since 2018).
- Member, Working Group, Asia Pacific Association of Computational Linguistics (2018-2020).