Arup Baruah

Qualification:

M.Tech (CSE&IT, IIT Kharagpur), Pursuing PhD (IIIT Guwahati)

Teaching Experience: 8 Years

Teaching Details

1. Assistant Professor at ADBU since 16/7/2012
2. Guest Lecturer at Tezpur University from 01/01/2008 till 31/5/2009
3. Guest Lecturer at NERIST from 01/01/1996 till 31/5/1996

Real-time Embedded Software Development

9 Years

1. Senior Software Engineer, Kyocera Wireless Corporation, San Diego, California, USA. February 2004 till September 2007. Developed embedded software for Kyocera’s CDMA mobile phones.
2. Software Engineer, Ericsson Wireless Communications, San Diego, California, USA. July 1999 till December 2003. Developed call processing software for Ericsson’s Base Station Controller (BSC) for CDMA mobile phone networks.
3. Software Engineer, Qualcomm India Inc., Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. October 1998 till June 1999. Developed tools for analyzing diagnostic and performance data collected by Qualcomm’s Base Station Manager (BSM) for CDMA mobile phone networks.
4. Software Engineer, Future Software Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. February 1998 till September 1998. Ported process control software from OS/2 to Windows NT platform.

Research Experience: 17 Years

1. Achievement — 14th rank among 36 participants in detecting sarcasm in tweets
   09 Jul 2020 • FigLang 2020 @ ACL 2020
   14th rank among 36 participants in detecting sarcasm in tweets
2. Achievement — 21st rank among 62 participants in detecting sentiment in English-Hindi code mixed data
   15 Jun 2020 • SEMEVAL 2020 @ COLING 2020, BARCELONA, SPAIN
   21st rank among 62 participants in detecting sentiment in English-Hindi code mixed data
3. Achievement — 18th rank in detecting the level of offensiveness in memes
   15 Jun 2020 • SemEval 2020 @ COLING 2020, Barcelona, Spain
   18TH RANK IN DETECTING THE LEVEL OF OFFENSIVENESS IN MEMES
4. Achievement — 10th rank among 44 participants in detecting targeted offensive language in social media text
   15 Jun 2020 • SemEval 2020 @ COLING 2020, Barcelona, Spain
   10TH RANK AMONG 44 PARTICIPANTS IN DETECTING TARGETED OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL MEDIA TEXT
5. Achievement — 2nd rank among 15 participants in detecting aggression in social media text in English, Hindi and Bengali language
   21 May 2020 • TRAC 2020 @ LREC 2020, Marseille, France
   2ND RANK AMONG 15 PARTICIPANTS IN DETECTING AGGRESSION IN SOCIAL MEDIA TEXT IN ENGLISH, HINDI AND BENGALI LANGUAGE
6. Achievement — NET
   02 Jan 2017 • UGC
   Qualified NET Exam (January 2017) with a percentage of 65.71
7. Achievement — 1st topper in NPTEL EXAM
   23 May 2016 • NPTEL
   1st topper with a score of 98% in the NPTEL Online Certification course "Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning" course conducted by Prof. Deepak Khemani from IIT Madras.
8. Achievement — represented IIT Kharagpur Cricket Team
   01 Dec 1997 • IIT
   Represented IIT Kharagpur in the 33rd Inter-IIT sports meet (1997) as a member of the cricket team. IIT Kharagpur was the champion team in the cricket competition.
9. Achievement — GATE 1995
   07 Apr 1997 • GATE
   Qualified GATE 1995 with All India Rank of 874.
10. Achievement — MEMBER OF JEC CRICKET TEAM
    01 Jan 1995 • DIBRUGARH UNIVERSITY
    Represented Jorhat Engineering College in the Inter-College cricket competition conducted by Dibrugarh University in 1994 and 1995. JEC was runners-up in both the years.
11. Achievement — N.C.C. B-Certificate
    01 Jul 1992 • NCC
    Attended the All India Vayu Sainik camp (1992), a national level camp, held at Secunderabad.
12. Award — 36th rank among 104 participants in detecting offensive language in social media text
    06 Jun 2019 • SEMEVAL 2019 @ NAACL-HLT 2019, MINNEAPOLIS, USA
    36th rank among 104 participants in detecting offensive language in social media text
13. Award — 8th rank among 71 participants in detecting Hate Speech Detection against Immigrants and Women
    06 Jun 2019 • SEMEVAL 2019 @ NAACL-HLT 2019, Minneapolis, USA
    8th rank among 71 participants in detecting Hate Speech Detection against Immigrants and Women
14. Award — In top 1% of NPTEL exam
    16 May 2019 • NPTEL
    AMONG THE TOP 1% OF THE CANDIDATES WITH A SCORE OF 97% IN THE NPTEL ONLINE CERTIFICATION COURSE “JOY OF COMPUTING USING PYTHON”
15. Award — 1st prize in the Science and Engineering Fair 2015
    01 Jul 2015 • Regional Science Centre,
    The project "Development of Powerpoint Presentation Application that Supports Gesture Based Commands" guided by me received the 1st prize in the Science and Engineering Fair 2015 conducted by Regional Science Centre, Guwahati, under Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.
16. Award — CONSOLATION PRIZE IN THE POSTER PRESENTATION CATEGORY
    01 Jul 2014 • Assam Don Bosco Universit
    Consolation prize in the poster presentation category in EGTET-2014.
17. Award — 1ST CLASS 3RD POSITION IN B.E. COMPUTER SC. & ENGG.
    15 Dec 1995 • Dibrugarh University
    1st class 3rd position in B.E. Computer Sc. & Engg. under Dibrugarh University, Assam (1995).
18. Award — J.E.C. Merit Prize
    01 Jul 1993 • Jorhat Engineering Colleg
    for securing the highest marks in aggregate among all engineering branches in the 2nd year B.E. examinations of Dibrugarh University, 1993.
19. Grant — xplore New Automation Award 2015
    30 Jun 2014 • Phoenix ConTACT, GERMANY
    The project "Development of a Gesture Command Based Smart Home Environment" proposed by me is one of the 100 projects selected globally to participate in the "xplore New Automation Award 2015" competition conducted by Phoenix Contact, Germany.

Book Chapter

1. Arup Baruah, "Client-Side Scripting: jQuery", Fundamentals of Web Applications Projects, vol. 1, pp. 66-77, 2016.
   Indexing: Others, • ISBN: 9789380247328
2. Bismita Choudhury, R. Das, A. Baruah, "A Novel Steganalysis Method based on Histogram Analysis", Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 315, pp. 779-789, 2014.
   Indexing: Scopus, • ISSN: 1876-1119 • ISBN: 978-3-319-07674-4

Conference

3. Kaushik Amar Das, Arup Baruah, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "Ensemble of ELECTRA for Profiling Fake News Spreaders", Working Notes of CLEF 2020 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, vol. 2696, 2020.
   Indexing: Scopus, • ISSN: 1613-0073
4. Arup Baruah, Kaushik Amar Das, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "Automatic Detection of Fake News Spreaders Using BERT", Working Notes of CLEF 2020 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum, vol. 2696, 2020.
   Indexing: Scopus, • ISSN: 1613-0073
5. Arup Baruah, Kaushik Amar Das, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "Context-Aware Sarcasm Detection Using BERT", Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Figurative Language (FigLang 2020) @ ACL 2020, vol. 2, pp. 83--87, 2020.
   Indexing: Scopus, • ISBN: 978-1-952148-12-5
6. Kaushik Amar Das, Arup Baruah, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "Checkpoint Ensemble of Transformers for Hate Speech Classification", SEMEVAL 2020 @ COLING 2020, BARCELONA, SPAIN, vol. 14, pp. 2023--2029, 2020.
   Indexing: Scopus,
7. Kaushik Amar Das, Arup Baruah, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "Extracting Features From Pre-trained Neural Networks To Classify Internet Memes", SEMEVAL 2020 @ COLING 2020, BARCELONA, SPAIN, vol. 14, pp. 1148--1154, 2020.
   Indexing: Scopus,
8. Arup Baruah, Kaushik Amar Das, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "Sentiment Detection in English-Hindi Code-Mixed Social Media Text", SEMEVAL 2020 @ COLING 2020, BARCELONA, SPAIN, vol. 14, pp. 946--950, 2020.
   Indexing: Scopus,
9. Arup Baruah, Kaushik Amar Das, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "Comparison of BERT and BiLSTM in Detecting Offensive Language", SEMEVAL 2020 @ COLING 2020, BARCELONA, SPAIN, vol. 14, pp. 1562--1568, 2020.
   Indexing: Scopus,
10. Arup Baruah, Kaushik Amar Das, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "A Multimodal Approach to Detect Offensive, Sarcastic and Humorous Memes", SemEval 2020 @ COLING 2020, Barcelona, Spain, vol. 14, pp. 885--890, 2020.
    Indexing: Scopus,
11. Arup Baruah, Kaushik Amar Das, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "Aggression Identification in English, Hindi and Bangla Text using BERT, RoBERTa and SVM", Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Trolling, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC-2020) @ LREC-2020, Marseille, France, vol. 2, pp. 76--82, 2020.
    Indexing: Scopus, • ISBN: 979-10-95546-56-6
12. Arup Baruah, Ferdous Ahmed Barbhuiya, and Kuntal Dey, "Automated Hate Speech and Offensive Content Detection in English and Code-Mixed Hindi Text", Working Notes of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE-2019), ISI KOLKATA, INDIA, vol. 2517, pp. 229-236, 2019.
    Indexing: Scopus, • ISSN: 1613-0073
13. Arup Baruah, Ferdous Barbhuiya and Kuntal Dey, "Bi-directional LSTM for Hate Speech Detection", The International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SEMEVAL-2019) @ NAACL-HLT 2019, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, USA, vol. 13, pp. 371-376, 2019.
    Indexing: Scopus, • ISBN: 978-1-950737-06-2
14. Gitimoni Talukdar, Pranjal Protim Borah, Arup Baruah, "Supervised Named Entity Recognition in Assamese language", IEEE's International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatice, IC3I - 2014, vol. IC3I - 2014, pp. 187-191, 2014.
    Indexing: Scopus, • ISBN: 978-1-4799-6629-5
15. Pranjal Protim Borah, Gitimoni Talukdar, Arup Baruah, "Assamese Word Sense Disambiguation using Supervised Learning", IEEE's International Conference on Contemporary Computing and Informatice, IC3I - 2014, vol. IC3I - 2014, pp. 946-950, 2014.
    Indexing: Scopus, • ISBN: 978-1-4799-6629-5
16. Gitimoni Talukdar, Pranjal Protim Borah, Arup Baruah, "A Survey of Named Entity Recognition in Assamese and other Indian Languages", International Conference On Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Computing, vol. ICONACC-2014, 2014.
    Indexing: Google Scholar,

Journal

17. PRANJAL PROTIM BORAH, GITIMONI TALUKDAR, ARUP BARUAH, "Approaches for Word Sense Disambiguation - A Survey", International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, vol. 3, pp. 135-138, 2014.
    Indexing: Others, • ISSN: 2277-3878