Dr. Parteek Bhatia is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Former Associate Dean of Student Affairs at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. He is currently on sabbatical for Post doctorate at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

He is recipient of Young Faculty Research Fellowship from Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology, Govt. of India. He has more than twenty years of academic experience, including six years at D.A.V College Amritsar.

He has earned his B.Tech from SLIET and MS from BITS Pilani. He is doctorate in the field of NLP from Thapar University. He is PhD title is “UNL Based Machine Translation System for Punjabi Language”.

He has published more than 100 research papers and articles in Journals, Conferences and Magazines of repute. His research work with UNDL foundation, Geneva, Switzerland involved participation in Advanced UNL School at Alexandria, EGYPT in 2012 and at Geneva, Switzerland in 2013 and 2014.

He is a winner of Gold Medal at International competition UNL Olympiad II,UNL Olympiad III and UNL Olympiad IV conducted by UNDL Foundation in year 2013 and 2014.

He is well known author and published text books in the field of Databases and Data Mining. His latest book titled “Data Mining and Data Warehousing: Principles and Practical Techniques” Published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. He is a author of popular books like “Simplified Approach to DBMS”, “Simplified Approach to Visual Basic” and “Simplified Approach to Oracle” and “NoSQL in a Day”.

He has handled research projects of more than one crore rupees sponsored by International and National funding agencies. He is acting as Principal Investigator of DST Funded research project on “Automatic Generation of Sign Language from Hindi Text for Communication and Education of Hearing Impaired people”.

He has completed 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. He has successfully completed research Project on Development of Indradhanush: An Integrated WordNet for Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Konkani, Oriya, Punjabi and Urdu Sponsored By Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Govt. of India.

He is passionate about teaching masses through modern platforms like MOOCs. He has more than 15,000 students on his very popular Udemy Course on “Learning SQL: A Simplified Approach”. He is also running his YouTube Channel “Parteek Bhatia: Simplifying Computer Education” for sharing video sessions on Machine Learning, Big Data, DBMS, SQL, PL/SQL and NoSQL.

He has research interest in area of NLP, Machine Learning and Assistive Technologies. He is member of IEEE, ACM and ISTE.