Bhatia Parteek Kumar

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Parteek Kumar Bhatia is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA.

Before joining WSU, he served as a professor at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India, and as a visiting professor at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA, and the LAMBDA Lab at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Additionally, he held the position of Associate Dean of Student Affairs at Thapar Institute. He earned his doctorate from Thapar Institute and his master’s degree from BITS Pilani, India. He also completed postdoctoral research at Tel Aviv University, Israel.

He works in the area of Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Large Language Models, and AI Applications for Social Good. He is the recipient of the Young Faculty Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India.

Dr. Kumar has demonstrated excellence in research, securing funding from prestigious international and national agencies. He has published more than 100 research papers and articles in reputable journals, conferences, and magazines. He won Gold Medals at the UNL Olympiad II, III, and IV, conducted by the UNDL Foundation in 2013 and 2014.

A well-known author, Dr. Bhatia has published textbooks on databases and data mining. His latest book, Data Mining and Data Warehousing: Principles and Practical Techniques, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. He is also the author of popular books such as Simplified Approach to DBMS, Simplified Approach to Visual Basic, Simplified Approach to Oracle, and NoSQL in a Day.

Dr. Kumar completed multiple research projects including “Automatic Generation of Sign Language from Hindi Text for Communication and Education of Hearing Impaired People” from DST, India, a Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)-funded research project on “Innovative Research in Pedagogy with Mini-MOOCs Blended with Instruction Strategies to Enhance Quality in Higher Education” as Co-PI. Additionally, he successfully completed a research project on the development of “Indradhanush: An Integrated WordNet for Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Konkani, Oriya, Punjabi, and Urdu,” sponsored by the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India.

Passionate about teaching the masses through modern platforms like MOOCs, Dr. Bhatia runs multiple online courses on Udemy with over 40,000 students. He also manages a YouTube channel, “Parteek Bhatia: Simplifying Computer Education,” where he shares video sessions on Machine Learning, Big Data, DBMS, SQL, PL/SQL, and NoSQL.

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