Dr. Sushree Sangita Mohanty currently working as an Assistant Professor in the department of
Anthropology as well as leading the project Mother Tongue based Multilingual Education at Kalinga
Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) which has recently received the UNESCO International Literary
Prize 2022. Her expertise in Multilingual Education facilitates easing the process to build a strong
educational foundation among the indigenous children of KISS. Her research interests are
multidisciplinary in nature which centres around socio-cultural life, multilingualism and livelihood
vulnerability of indigenous & low-income communities of Odisha/India. She has been listed as a
UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab Expert.
Dr. Satya Ranjan Dash is currently working as an associate professor at KIIT University, India. His
current research includes Epileptic Seizure Detection based on EEG Signal through Spiking neural
network (SNN), Classification of Schizophrenia Patients from EEG and fMRI using SNN and SSN,
fetal heart rate signals classification through extreme learning machine (ELM), Mammogram
Analysis with Local binary pattern (LBP), generative adversarial network (GAN) model, Machine
Learning , Medical Image Processing, Machine Translation, Natural Language Processing and Fuzzy
Mathematical Models.
Dr. Shantipriya Parida currently working as a Senior AI Scientist at Silo AI, Finland. Before joining
Silo AI, Shantipriya worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland.
He has obtained his Postdoc in Machine Translation from Charles University, Prague, Czech
Republic, Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from Utkal University, Odisha, India. Before joining
postdoc at Charles University, he worked as a System Architect at Huawei Technologies India Pvt
Ltd, Bangalore, India. He has 15 years of experience in software development and architecture, as
well as expertise in machine learning, deep learning, and Natural Language Processing. He has 4
years of research experience in leading NLP tasks in EU H2020 and InnoSuisse projects with
publications in top-tier conferences and journals. He is part of the program committee/organizer
for many top-tier NLP conferences and workshops. Recently published an edited book “Natural
Language Processing in Healthcare: A Special Focus on Low Resource Language” in collaboration
with other NLP researchers.
