- Professor and Head, Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University
- Director, Centre for Brahmaputra Studies, Gauhati University
- Registrar, Cotton University
- Director, GU Institute of Science & Technology
- Head, Information Technology, Gauhati University
- Reader/Associate Professor, Computer Science, Gauhati University
- Reader/Associate Professor, Computer Science Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal
- Assistant Professor, Computer Science and IT, Debub University, Ethiopia
- Assistant Registrar (Academic), Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
- Lecturer and Head, Electronics, North Gauhati College
- ISHAAN: Bilingual Machine Translation System: English-Assamese, English-Bodo, Assamese-Bodo: MeitY, Govt. of India
- Design and Development of unicode Complient Assamese Font and Keyboard : RUSA Govt. of Assam
- Cross Lingual Information Access (Assamese): DeitY, Govt. of India
- Design and Development of Wordnets (Assamese and Bodo): DeitY, Govt. of India
- Language Technology Development Project (Assamese and Bodo): DIT, Govt. of India
- Design and Development of Digital Assamese Thesauras: University Grants Commission
Uxa and Jonaki: Unicode compliant Assamese Fonts:
Unicode compliant Assamese Fonts “Uxa” and “Jonaki” have been designed and developed at the Department of Information Technology, Gauhati University. Assamese writing system often faces problems with proper rendering of Conjunct Characters Glyphs. Assamese is a highly agglutinative language, and requires complex clusters to be generated in the writing style. Uxa and Jonaki have been developed in the NLP and Language Technology Lab of the Department under the Principal Investigator Prof. Shikhar Kr Sarma, and Co Principal Investigator Kishore Kashyap. The development has been funded by RUSA, (Rastriya Ucchatar Siksha Abhiyan), Government of Assam.
These two fonts are capable of rendering almost all possible and usable Clusters/Conjunct Characters in Assamese Language.
The fonts are also supplemented with specially designed Assamese Keyboards: “ASScript Keyboard”, and “ASPhonetic Keyboard”.
The problems of shifting to English Keyboard for some symbols, special characters etc., while typing Assamese, have been resolved in both ASScript and ASPhonetic keyboards. All required Key strokes are made available in the single keyboard layout itself.
Project Team:
Prof. Shikhar Kr. Sarma: Principal Investigator
Kishore Kashyap: Co- Principal Investigator
Dr. Ratul Ch Deka: Language Consultant
Dr. Himadri Bharali: Language Consultant
Dr. Manash Pratim Bhuyan: Computing Consultant
Rajiv K Barman: Design Consultant
Prithoo Pinak Medhi: Graphic Designer
Abinash Gogoi: Graphic Designer
Download Uxa Font
Download Jonaki Font
Download ASScript and ASPhonetic Assamese Keyboard (Windows)
Download ASScript Assamese Keyboard (Mac)
Download ASPhonetic Assamese Keyboard (Mac)
