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.       IEEE

2.       ACM

 

Punjabi Software and Technologies developed:

  • Akhar, First Punjabi word processor
  • PunjabiKhoj, Customized Search Engine for Punjabi (Project Leader) "www.punjabikhoj.com"  (Released by S. Parkash Singh Badal, Hon'ble Chief Minister of Punjab in 2008)
  • Shahmukhi (Urdu) to Gurmukhi Transliteration online software (Project Leader)
  • 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  and sorting utility
  • First Romanized typing utility for Gurmukhi text
  • First Punjabi font to Unicode & Reverse conversion utility
  • Online Punjabi teaching website (Project Leader) "www.learnpunjabi.org" (Released by Maharani Preneet Kaur, Hon'ble Member of Parliament in 2005)
  • Sangam, Gurmukhi-Shahmukhi (Urdu) transliteration Software (Released by Mr. Arjun Singh, Hon'ble Union Minister of Human Resource Development in 2004)

 

Research Funding, Consultancies and Grants

Year

Funding Agency

Project

My role

Budget

2008-2009

Defence R&D Organization, India

Transliteration system from Urdu to Devnagri

Principal Investigator

Rs. 9.9 Lakh

2008-2010

Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, India

Development of a grammar checking system for Punjabi

 

Principal Investigator

Rs. 25.48 Lakh

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

Multi-media based 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  2nd 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 6th 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 5th International Conference of Document Analysis and Recognition, Bangalore, India.

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

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

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

 

Publications:

 

Journals:

  1. T S Saini and G S Lehal “Shahmukhi to Gurmukhi Transliteration System: A Corpus based Approach”, Research in Computing Science (Mexico), Volume 33, pp. 151-162 (2008).
  2. V Gupta and G S Lehal, " Proposed Architecture for Punjabi Language Question Answering using Text Mining", Karpagam Journal of Computer Science, Volume 2, No. 2, pp. 554-562 (Feb. 2008).

3.      M S Gill, G S Lehal, and S S Joshi, “A full-form lexicon based morphological analysis and generation tool for Punjabi”, International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 38-47 (October 2007).

  1. M K Jindal, R K Sharma and G S Lehal, "Segmentation of Horizontally Overlapping Lines in Printed Indian Scripts", International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR), Volume 3, No. 4, pp. 277-286 (Dec 2007).

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

  1. 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).
  2. G S Lehal, "Design and Implementation of Punjabi Spell Checker", International Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, pp. 70-75 (Jan 2007).
  3. 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).
  4. G. S. Lehal and Chandan Singh, "A Complete Machine Printed Gurmukhi OCR System", Vivek,  pp. 10-17, Vol. 16, No. 3. (2006).
  5. 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)
  6. 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)
  7. G S Lehal and H S Bhatti, “Computer and Punjabi Language”, Punjabi Dunia, pp. 23-39, (Dec. 2004)
  8. G S Lehal, "Akhar : A Punjabi word processing tool kit", RIMT Journal of Strategic Management & Information Technology, pp. 29-32, Vol 1, (Jan 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, "Structural Features for Recognizing Degraded Printed Gurmukhi Script", Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG 2008),  Las Vegas, IEEE Computer Society Press, California, USA, pp. 668-673. (2008).

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 18th 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 15th 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 9th 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 5th 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 2nd 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 2nd 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