Sovan Kumar Sahoo

Assistant Professor

Sovan Kumar Sahoo is an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Bhubaneshwar. He is pursuing Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Patna. He has spent the last seven years conducting research in Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Knowledge Graphs, Question Answering, and Deep Learning. He was a member of the AI-NLP-ML lab at IIT Patna, where he worked on several sponsored research projects funded by private companies such as LG and Wipro, as well as government agencies such as MeiTY, Government of India, and MoE, Government of India, under the guidance of Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya and Dr. Asif Ekbal. He received his MTech from the Department of Information Technology, IIEST Shibpur, and his BTech from the College of Engineering and Management, Kolaghat. Previously, he worked as a Performance Test Engineer at Cognizant. He has served several journals, including Sādhanā, SN Computer Science, PLOS One, ACM TALLIP, Expert Systems With Applications, Neural Networks, Computer Speech & Language, and Conferences like ACL, ICON, and ICONIP, as a reviewer. He also served as a PC member at conferences such as ICONIP and ICON.

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Research Interests
Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Knowledge Graphs, Question Answering, ChatBot and Deep Learning

Administrative Responsibility
Reviewer at PLOS One, ACM TALLIP, Expert Systems With Applications, Neural Networks, Computer Speech and Language, ACL, ICONIP, ICON