CURRICULUM VITAE

Gurpreet Singh Lehal

Professor & Head,

Computer Science Department,

Punjabi University, Patiala.

Director,

Advanced Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi Language Literature and Culture,

Punjabi University, Patiala.

Degrees:

B.Sc. (Maths Hons.) , Punjab University, Chandigarh
M.Sc. (Maths Hons.) , Punjab University, Chandigarh
M.E. (Computer Science) Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala
PhD (Computer Science), Punjabi University, Patiala

Employment:

1988-1995, Systems Analyst/Research Engineer, Thapar Corporate Research & Development Centre, Patiala
1995-2000, Lecturer in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Punjabi University , Patiala
2000-2003, Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology , Patiala
From 2003, Professor in Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Punjabi University

Courses Taught:

Introduction to Information Technology
Data Structures
Theory of Computation
Operating System
Algorithm Analysis and Design
Computer Graphics
Object Oriented Programming and JAVA
Unix & C
Software Testing, Validation and Verification

Member:

1. State Advisory Board, Punjab Government

Punjabi Software and Technologies developed:

Akhar, First Punjabi word processor
First Gurmukhi OCR (Released by Thiru Dayanidhi Maran Hon'ble Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology in 2007)
Punjabi Morphological Analyser & Generator (Project Leader) (Released by Thiru Dayanidhi Maran Hon'ble Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology in 2007)
First Punjabi spell checker
First Romanized typing utility for Gurmukhi text
First Punjabi sorting utility
First Punjabi font to Unicode & Reverse conversion utility
Sangam, Gurmukhi-Shahmukhi (Urdu) transliteration Software (Released by Mr. Arjun Singh, Hon'ble Union Minister of Human Resource Development in 2004)
All font Punjabi font converter
Online Punjabi teaching website (Project Leader) (www.learnpunjabi.org)

Research Funding, Consultancies and Grants

Year	Funding Agency	Project	My role	Budget
2007	Defence R&D Organization, India	Transliteration system from Urdu/Kashmiri to Roman script and reverse	Principal Investigator	Rs. 1.25 Lakh
2006-2008	Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, India	Development of Robust Document Analysis and Recognition System for Printed Gurmukhi Script	Chief Coordinator	Rs. 36 Lakh
2006-2008	International Development Research Centre (IDRC) Canada, and the Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) Singapore	Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration Solution for Networking	Chief Coordinator	US$ 30,000
2005	MP Local Area Development Fund, Maharani Perneet Kaur, MP Patiala	Website for Online Teaching of Punjabi (www.learnpunjabi.org) & Establishment of Natural Language Processing Lab	Project Leader	Rs. 20 Lakh
2004-2009	University Grants Commission, India	Special Assistance Programme(Thrust Research Areas : Punjabi Speech Synthesis and Gurmukhi OCR)	Coordinator	Rs. 45 Lakh
2000-2003	Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, India	Resource Centre for Indian Language Technology Solutions- Punjabi	Chief Coordinator	Rs. 81 Lakh

Conferences/Workshops Attended

1. 2007 : Invited to Workshop on Punjabi teaching materials for internet use by University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

2. 2007 : Invited to Learning Forum by ASIAN MEDIA INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION CENTRE, Singapore.

3. 2006 : Attended Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image processing, Madurai, India.

4. 2004 : Attended International Conference on Punjabi Culture, Centre for Sikh and Punjab Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

5. 2003 : Presented paper in 2^nd World Punjabi Conference, Prince George, Canada.

6. 2002: Delivered invited talk on Punjabi spell checker in Workshop on Indian Language Spell checker Design at Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India.

7. 2002: Presented paper in The Indo-European Conference on Multilingual Communication Technologies, CDAC, Pune.

8. 2002: Delivered invited talk on Gurmukhi OCR in First Workshop on Indian Language OCR Systems at University of Hydrabad, Hydrabad, India.

9. 2001: Attended workshop on Corpus Based Natural Language Processing at MIT, Chennai, India

10. 2001: Presented paper in 6^th International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, USA.

11. 2001: Participated in International Workshop on Technology Development of Indian Languages, Calcutta, India

12. 2000 : Attended Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing as special invitee, Bangalore, India

13. 1999: Presented paper in 5th International Conf. on Cognitive Systems, Delhi, India.

14. 1999:Presented paper in 5^th International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition, Bangalore, India.

15. 1999:Presented paper in 9^th International Graphonomics Society Conference, Singapore.

16. 1998:Presented paper in 4th National Conf. on Cognitive Systems, Delhi, India.

17. 1998:Presented paper in 2^nd International Conf. on Knowledge Based Computer Systems, Mumbai, India.

Publications:

Journals:

1. G S Lehal, "A Gurmukhi Collation Algorithm", International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 60-64 (Jan 2007).

2. V Gupta and G S Lehal, "Text Mining approach for Punjabi language Synonyms detection", International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 65-69 (Jan 2007).

3. G S Lehal, "Design and Implementation of Punjabi Spell Checker", International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 70-75 (Jan 2007).

4. G S Joshan and G S Lehal, "Evaluation of Direct Machine Translation System from Punjabi to Hindi", International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 76-83 (Jan 2007).

5. G. S. Lehal and Chandan Singh, "A Complete Machine Printed Gurmukhi OCR System", Vivek, pp. 10-17, Vol. 16, No. 3. (2006).

6. M K Jindal, G S Lehal and R K Sharma, “Segmentation problems and solutions in printed degraded Gurmukhi text”, International Journal of Signal Processing, Volume 2, Number 4, pp. 258-267, (2005)

7. M K Jindal, G S Lehal and R K Sharma, “A Study of touching characters in degraded Gurmukhi text”, Transactions On Engineering, Computing And Technology, Volume 4, pp. 121-124, (2005)

8. G S Lehal and H S Bhatti, “Computer and Punjabi Language”, Punjabi Dunia, pp. 23-39, (Dec. 2004)

9. G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “A Post Processor for Gurmukhi OCR”, SADHANA Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Vol. 27, Part 1, pp. 99-112, (2002)

10. G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “Feature extraction and classification for OCR of Gurmukhi script”, Vivek, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 2-12 (1999).

International Conference Proceedings:

1. M.K. Jindal, R.K. Sharma, G.S. Lehal, "A Study of Different Kinds of Degradation in Printed Gurmukhi Script,", Proceedings International Conference on Computing: Theory and Applications (ICCTA'07), Kolkata, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, pp. 538-544. (2007).

2. M.K. Jindal, R.K. Sharma, G.S. Lehal, "Segmentation of Horizontally Overlapping Lines in Printed Gurmukhi Script,", Proceedings 14th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications, Surathkal, IEEE Computer Society Press, NJ, USA, pp. 226-229. (2006).

3. P. Singh and G S Lehal, "Text-to-Speech Synthesis system for Punjabi language", Proceedings International Conference on Multidisciplinary Information Sciences and Technologies, Merida, Spain, pp.388-391. (2006).

4. D V Sharma and G S Lehal, “An Iterative Algorithm for Segmentation of Isolated Handwritten Words in Gurmukhi Script”, Proceedings 18^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Hong Kong, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, Vol 2, pp 1022-1025. (2006).

5. G S Lehal and M Bhagat, “Error Pattern in Punjabi Typed Text”, Proceedings of International Symposium on Machine Translation, NLP and TSS, New Delhi, pp. 128-141, (2004)

6. G S Lehal , Chandan Singh and Renu Dhir, “Structural feature-based approach for script identification of Gurmukhi and Roman characters and words”, Document Recognition and Retrieval X, Proceedings SPIE, USA, Vol. 5010 (2003). (Accepted for publication)

7. G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “A complete OCR system for Gurmukhi script”, Structural, Syntactic and Statistical Pattern Recognition, T. Caelli, A. Amin, R.P.W. Duin, M. Kamel and D. de Ridder (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2396, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 344-352, (2002)

8. G S Lehal , Chandan Singh and Renu Dhir, “Automatic separation of Gurmukhi and Roman script words”, Proceedings Indo-European Conference on Multilingual Communication Technologies, Pune, R. K. Arora, M. Kulkarni and H. Darbari (Editors), Tata McGraw-Hill, pp. 32-38, (2002)

9. G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “Text segmentation of machine printed Gurmukhi script”, Document Recognition and Retrieval VIII, Paul B. Kantor, Daniel P. Lopresti, Jiangying Zhou, Editors, Proceedings SPIE, USA, Vol. 4307, pp. 223-231, (2001).

10. G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, "A technique for segmentation of Gurmukhi text”, Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, W. Skarbek (Ed.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2124, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 191-200 (2001)

11. G S Lehal, Chandan Singh and Ritu Lehal , "A shape based post processor for Gurmukhi OCR”, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, USA, pp. 1105-1109, (2001)

12. G. S. Lehal and Nivedan Bhatt, “A recognition system for Devnagri and English handwritten numerals”, Advances in Multimodal Interfaces – ICMI 2001, T. Tan, Y. Shi and W. Gao (Editors), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1948, Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 442-449. (2000).

13. G S Lehal and Chandan Singh, “A Gurmukhi script recognition system”, Proceedings 15^th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona, Spain, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, Vol 2, pp 557-560. (2000).

14. Ajay Goyal, G S Lehal and S S Deol, “Segmentation of Machine Printed Gurmukhi Script”, Proceedings 9^th International Graphonomics Society Conference, Singapore, pp. 293-297, (1999)

15. G S Lehal and Renu Dhir, “A Range Free Skew Detection Technique for Digitized Gurmukhi Script Documents”, Proceedings 5^th International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition, Bangalore, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, pp. 147-152, (1999)

16. G S Lehal and Sunil Madan, “A New Approach to Skew detection and Correction of Machine Printed Gurmukhi Script”, Proceedings 2^nd International Conf. on Knowledge Based Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, pp. 215-224 (1998)

National Conference Proceedings:

1. V Gupta, G S Lehal and H Aggarwal, “Creation of Thesaurus from Dictionary and Corpus”, Proceedings of National Conference on Recent advances and Future Trends in IT, Punjabi University, Patiala, pp. 62-64, (2005)

2. A K Goyal, G S Lehal and J Behal, “Machine Printed Gurmukhi Script Character Recognition Using Neural Networks”, Cognitive Systems Reviews and Previews, J. R. Isaac and K. Batra (Editors), ICCS ’99, Delhi, Phoenix Publishing House Pvt Ltd, pp. 141-150, (1999)

3. G S Lehal and Kulwinder Singh, “A study of data structures for implementation of Punjabi dictionary”, Cognitive Systems Reviews and Previews, J. R. Isaac and K. Batra (Editors), ICCS ’99, Delhi, Phoenix Publishing House Pvt Ltd, pp. 489-497, (1999)

4. G S Lehal and Sunil Madan, “A New Approach to Skew detection and Correction of Machine Printed Gurmukhi Script”, Proceedings 2^nd International Conf. on Knowledge Based Computer Systems, Mumbai, India, pp. 215-224 (1998)

Visits Abroad

1. 2007 : Singapore, USA, Canada, UK

2. 2006 : UK, Canada

3. 2005 : UK, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia

4. 2004 : Pakistan, USA, Canada

5. 2003 : Canada, USA

6. 2001 : USA, Canada

7. 1999 : Singapore

Contact:

Phone : +91-175-3046171, +91-175-3046313 (O)

+91-175-2283502(R)

+91-9815473767(M)

Fax : +91-175-3046313

Email : gslehal@gmail.com, gslehal@yahoo.com