Biography and academic profile
Dr. Tanik Saikh is an Assistant Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering in Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Prior to this, he was a Research Staff Member (postdoctoral level) at L3S Research Center, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Patna. He was fortunate to be advised by Dr. Asif Ekbal and Late Prof. Pushpak Bhattacharyya. Generally, research interests lie in the domain of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), particularly in applying Natural Language Inference (NLI)/ Textual Entailment (TE) in Fake News Detection, Question Answering, and Novelty Detection. Currently, he is working on multimodal (combining text with image) fake news detection in the news domain and multimodal question answering, i.e., reasoning over multiple modalities (text, images, tables) to extract the best possible answer to a complex question. Before joining IIT Patna, he was involved as Research Engineer at Jadavpur University. He has more than ten years of working experience in the different areas of NLP, Text Analytics, and Machine Learning. He worked in several national level consortia based projects funded by DeitY, Govt. of India, in Computer Science and Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, and also continued research work in Textual Entailment, Question Answering, Machine Learning, Eye Tracking, etc. During his stay at Jadavpur University, he did a one-year certification course on Introduction to Linguistics. He did his masters (M.Tech) and bachelor (B.Tech) from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, West Bengal and Government College of Engineering and Leather Technology, West Bengal. He completed his schooling in his native place, located in Birbhum district, West Bengal, India. He also worked as a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Aliah University, Kolkata, India, for more than a year. Google Scholar Citations, which are considered a benchmark in computer science and engineering, show 653 career citations to my papers. My h-index is 11, and my i10-index is 14.
