Dr Sudhansu Bala Das

Dr. Sudhansu Bala Das is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in Natural Language Processing (NLP), linguistics, and data science-driven text analysis. She earned her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India (2020–2024), where she explored low-resource Indian languages, linguistic structures, and data-driven approaches to machine translation. Her doctoral thesis, "Exploring the Efficacy of Machine Translation Systems for Indian Languages", made significant contributions to the field, leading to publications in high-impact journals and top-tier conferences, including CORE A venues.

She has undergraduate-level teaching experience and served as Assistant Professor (Grade I) in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at XIM University, Bhubaneswar, in 2024. Prior to her PhD, she gained four years of research experience at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), India, where she worked on text and speech processing, network systems, and real-time data science projects.

She completed her MTech in Computer Science and Engineering at Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, where she was awarded the University Gold Medal for academic excellence. Her research during this time focused on educational technology and computational thinking.

Her expertise and contributions to NLP, machine translation, and localization have been widely recognized, earning her prestigious accolades such as the AI Excellence Award (SAMVAD 2023) and the Best Localization Blog Paper Award (SAMVAD 2024).