Introduction

Dr. Navanath Saharia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Senapati, Manipur. He earned his Ph.D. from Tezpur University and further advanced his research through an EU Erasmus Mundus Post-Doctoral fellowship at the GA Technical University of Iași, Romania. His research expertise encompasses Social Network content analysis, Natural Language Processing, Human Computer Interaction and Cyber-Security. Dr. Saharia has contributed significantly in advancing under-resource languages of Northeast India. Prior to his current role, he held academic positions at Kaziranga University and Cotton University.

Qualification

  • PDF, Faculty in Electronics, Telecommunications & Information Technology - GA Technical University of Iasi (2015-16)
  • PhD, Department of Computer Science & Engineering - Tezpur University (2015)

Experience

  • Assistant Professor — IIIT Senapati, Manipur (2016–Present). Academic, research and Administrative responsibility.

Publications

  1. Context-Aware Sensitive Information Detection in Unstructured Text using BERT; LV Devi, N Saharia; International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2025, Inderscience
  2. Identification of domain-specific euphemistic tweets using clustering, MD Devi, N Saharia, International Journal of Information Technology 16 (1), 21-31, 2024, Springer
  3. Unsupervised tweet categorization using semantic and statistical features; MD Devi, N Saharia; Multimedia Tools and Applications, 82 (6), 2023, Springer
  4. Development and analysis of speech recognition systems for Assamese language using HTK; H Sarma, N Saharia, U Sharma; Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, 17(1), 2017, ACM
  5. A semantic analyzer for detecting attitudes on SNS; HN Teodorescu, N Saharia; International Conference on Communications (COMM), pp. 47-50; Bucharest, Romania, 2016, IEEE
  6. An internet slang annotated dictionary and its use in assessing message attitude and sentiments; HN Teodorescu, N Saharia; International Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue (SpeD); Bucharest, Romania, 2015, IEEE
  7. Stemming resource-poor Indian languages; N Saharia, U Sharma, J Kalita; Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, 13(03), 2014, ACM

Other Achievements

Sponsored project

  1. Research and Training on eGovernance, PI, 12 Lakhs, Department of Information Technology, Govt. of Manipur, India.
  2. Extracting user's perception about Aadhaar from online content, PI, 3.0 Lakhs, Digital Identity Research Initiative, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India.
  3. Development of monolingual corpus for the languages of Manipur, PI, 2.5 Lakhs, TEQIP-III, NPIU, Govt. of India.
  4. Spectral-spatial active learning for classification of hyper-spectral remote sensing images, Co-PI, 2.5 Lakhs, TEQIP-III, NPIU, Govt. of India.

Awards/ Achievements

  1. EU Erasmus Mundus Post-doctoral Fellow for the year 2015-16
  2. Research Fellowship for the year 2019-20 from Digital Identity Research Initiative, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India.

Association with Technical/Social Bodies

  1. Technical Program/Review Committee Member: NAACL-2019/20/21; EMNLP-2018/19/20; Reg-ICON-2017; NLP-2014/15/18/19/20/23, CICT-2017/2018, icSoftComp 2017/20/21/22/23, IACC 2020/21/22, I3CS 2022, ACM-TALLIP
  2. Member of ACM, ACL and Life member of Computer Society of India