Sriparna Saha

Dr. Sriparna Saha is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India. She holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata and has held leadership roles including Head of Department (2021-2023) and Associate Dean for Research and Development (2019-2021). Her research focuses on AI, machine learning, natural language processing, bioinformatics, and multiobjective optimization. She has authored over 400 publications with an h-index of 38 and received awards such as the NASI Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award and Google India Women in Engineering Award. Her work spans multimodal systems, medical image analysis, and computational social systems.

• Education: M.Tech (2005) and Ph.D. (2011) in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata.
• Research Interests: Multimodal information processing, NLP, machine learning, bioinformatics, and optimization techniques.
• Awards: Includes Lt. Rashi Roy Memorial Gold Medal, BIRD Award, and multiple fellowships (Humboldt, CNRS, etc.).
• Administrative Roles: IEEE Student Branch Councilor, Senate Member, and Visvesvaraya Nodal Officer at IIT Patna.

Her recent work includes advancements in multimodal recommendation systems, breast cancer prognosis models, and computational social systems for crisis management. She has also contributed to hate speech detection in multilingual contexts and medical imaging diagnostics.