--- title: "Bishal Santra — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Bishal Santra, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bishal-santra/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bishal-santra/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Bishal Santra # Bishal Santra Bishal Santra has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Anubhab Mandal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anubhab-mandal/), [Manish Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manish-gupta/), [Pawan Goyal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pawan-goyal/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5089626592) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0380-689X) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5089626592) · [33 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089626592) · [131 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089626592&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bishal-santra/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11445](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/115/#star-11445) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Bishal+Santra) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Bishal+Santra) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Bishal+Santra) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Bishal+Santra) ## Affiliations [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur** Kharagpur · India 2018–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-kharagpur/) · [🏢**Microsoft Research** Bengaluru · India 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Hyderabad · India 2024–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-india/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Indore** Indore · India 2016–2018 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01hhf7w52) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bishal-santra/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Chat-Ghosting: Methods for Auto-Completion in Dialog Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mandal-2026-chat-ghosting-methods-auto-completion/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper studies "chat-ghosting": inline auto-completion that proposes one continuation of the message a user is typing in a chat interface such as ChatGPT or Copilot. 2. **[Router-Suggest: Dynamic Routing for Multimodal Auto-Completion in Visually-Grounded Dialogs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mishra-2026-router-suggest-dynamic-routing-multimodal/)** *(2026)* The paper addresses inline auto-completion in chats where users share images, so the right continuation of a half-typed message may depend on what a picture shows. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anubhab Mandal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anubhab-mandal/) ×2 - [Manish Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manish-gupta/) ×2 - [Pawan Goyal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pawan-goyal/) ×2 - [Sandeep Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandeep-mishra/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) ×2: [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) ×2 Updated 1 November 2026