Dr. Alapan Kuila

About

I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIITDM Kurnool (joined January 2026). Previously, I worked as a Research Scientist at IIT Delhi focusing on LLM evaluation methods for reasoning and climate data analytics.

I completed my Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur in Natural Language Processing, focusing on news analysis, event extraction, sentiment analysis, and media bias understanding.

Interested candidates for PhD are encouraged to contact me via email with their CV and research interests.

Research Interests

• Machine Learning & Deep Learning
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Generative AI
• Information Extraction
• Computational Social Science

Publications

Students

PhD Students

• Open positions available. Interested candidates can contact via email.

M.Tech Students

• KUSUMLATA (224CS1004)

B.Tech Students

• (Add names)

Teaching

• December 2025 – June 2026:
  • Machine Learning (2nd Year B.Tech AI & DS, IIITDM Kurnool)
  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms Lab (2nd Year B.Tech AI & DS, IIITDM Kurnool)
  • Product Design Practice Lab (3rd Year B.Tech AI & DS & CSE, IIITDM Kurnool)
  • NLP Lab (3rd Year B.Tech AI & DS & CSE, IIITDM Kurnool)
• July – December 2025: Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Data Structure and Algorithm Analysis (Sitare University)

Updates

• 👉 [June 2026] Organizing JENAI Workshop (colocated with PAKDD 2026 at Hong Kong)
• [January 2026] Joined IIITDM Kurnool as Assistant Professor
• [July 2025] Joined Sitare University, Lucknow as Assistant Professor
• [July 2025] PhD awarded from the Dept of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur

Professional Service

• Program Committee Member: FIRE 2023, FIRE 2024
• Reviewer: ACM TALLIP, PLOS One
• Conference Reviewer: ACL ARR, ICON, FIRE

Awards & Activities

• Microsoft Research India Grant (USD 2900) — SIGIR 2024
• Invited Speaker — Faculty Development Program (September 2024) on AI & IoT at IEM Kolkata

Contact

Email: alapan.cse@gmail.com

Email: alapan.cse@iiitk.ac.in

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