Sanat Kumar Bista
		Department of Computing
		Room No: A3.11, Horton Building
		University of Bradford
		Bradford BD7 1DP
		United Kingdom
		TEL.: +44 (0)1274 233948
		E-MAIL: s.k.bista AT bradford.ac.uk

Qualifications: 

Master of Technology (M. Tech) in Information Technology, magna cum laude, Kathmandu University, Nepal
Bachelor Engineering in Computer Engineering, Kathmandu University, Nepal

Current status:  PhD Research Student in the Department of Computing, School of Informatics at the University of Bradford

Research Group: M.O.S.A.I.C

Supervisors: Dr Keshav P Dahal, Professor Peter I Cowling

Research project:  Artificial Intelligence for Trust Modelling

Research interests:  Artificial Intelligence, Computational Models of Trust and Reputation, Evolution of Cooperation, Business Information Systems, Operational Research

Others: I am also involved as a Project Leader in the following Research and Development related Projects at Kathmandu University in Nepal:

               a. PAN ICT R&D Grant Award funded Project on Machine Translation 

               b. Kathmandu University Component of the PAN Localization Project

Publications:

S.K.Bista, K.P.Dahal, P.I.Cowling, B.M. Tuladhar (2008), Evolution of Cooperation in an Incentive Based Business Game Environment, In the proceedings of ICADAM 2008- Springer, Sanya, China

S.K.Bista, K.P.Dahal, P.I.Cowling, B.M. Tuladhar (2008) Unraveling the Evolution of Defectors in Online Business Games, In the proceedings of SKIMA 2008, Kathmandu, Nepal

S.K. Bista, K.P. Dahal, P.I Cowling, B.M. Tuladhar. Metrics for computing trust in multi-agent environment, 8^th Informatics Workshop, Bradford, UK, 2007.

S.K.Bista, K.P. Dahal, P.I.Cowling, B.M. Tuladhar. TruMet: An approach towards Computing Trust in Multi-Agent Environment, Proceedings of International conference on Software Knowledge Information Management and Applications, Chiangmai, Thailand 2006

S.K. Bista, K.P. Dahal, B.M. Tuladhar. Agent Oriented Peer-Peer Supply Chain for Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment, 7^th Informatics Workshop, Bradford, UK, 2006.

Shrestha N., Hall Patrick A.V., Bista S. K. “Resources for Nepali Word Sense Disambiguation”, IEEE International conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE’08), Beijing, China, 2008

Shrestha N., Hall Patrick A.V., Bista S. K. “Dictionary containing Example based Nepali WSD”, ICON 2008, Pune, India, 2008.

Shrestha N., Hall Patrick A.V., Bista S. K. “Word Sense Disambiguation; a Brief Survey with Application to Nepali”, 29^th Annual Conference of Linguistic Society of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal, 2008.

Y.P. Yadava, G R Bhattarai, S. K. Bista,  B. Keshari and  J. Bhatta, Envisioning Machine Translation for the New Millennium: Outlines of Preliminary Steps in Nepal. Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics, ed. by Yogendra P. Yadava et al., pages 429-439, Kathmandu: Linguistics Society of Nepal, 2005. 

B. Keshari, J. Bhatta and S.K. Bista. Nepali Part-of-Speech Guesser and Its Application in Lexicon Building. Proceedings of International Conference On Natural Language Processing, ICON-2005, IIT Kanpur, India, 2005.

B. Keshari, J. Bhatta and S.K. Bista. Handling Honorification in Dobahse: Online English-to-Nepali Machine Translation System. Proceedings of Third Asian Applied Computing Conference (AACC - 2005), Kathmandu, Nepal, 2005.

B. Keshari and S.K. Bista, UNL Nepali Deconverter. International-CALIBER 2005, Kochi, India, 2005.

Bhim Prasad Upadhyaya, Birendra Keshari and Sanat Kumar Bista, Morphological Analyser for Nepali Language. Reserch KU-CSE-1-20005, Dept. of CSE, Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, January 2005. (Internal Technical Report)

S.K. Bista, and B.Keshari. Standardization issues in  Loclization, Proceedings of the 5th CAN ICT International Conference, January 2005, Nepal.

S.K. Bista, and B. Keshari, Research Techniques for a new  keyboard layout design, Workshop on Keyboard layout Design, Nepal.2004.

Useful Links:

Kathmandu University

Dobhase: Machine Translation System

PAN Localization Project

Home Page: Andreas Wombacher (my M. Tech thesis Supervisor)

Google Scholar

Elsevier Science Direct

The ACM Digital Library

IEEE Xplore

CiteSeer.IST : Scientific Literature Digital Library