B.Tech NIT Arunachal Pradesh
M.Tech / PhD NIT Silchar
Scientist Crimson AI · Postdoc IIT Delhi
Asst. Professor IIIT Manipur

Salam Michael Singh

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Information Technology Manipur
Mantripukhri, Manipur, India

I work on natural language processing, machine translation for low-resource languages, and AI applications for mental health , building systems that bridge linguistic communities and support real-world healthcare needs.

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NLP Machine Translation AI for Mental Health Low-Resource NLP LLMs Generative AI
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Papers
6
Journals
News & Updates Reverse chronological
2026
Journal Accepted at IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health InformaticsIEEE JBHI · IF 7.7 · SCIE
Discourse-Guided Summarisation of Psychotherapy Dialogues via Graph-Fused Language Models
Adhikary, Mukherjee, Sinha Deb, Singh S., Singh S.M., Chakraborty
Jul2025
News
Joined IIIT Manipur as Assistant Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
2025
ConferenceIJCAI 2025
SAHAY: Multimodal, Privacy-Preserving AI for Suicide Risk Detection and Intervention in India
Singh S.M., Sethi M.I., Math S.B., Chakraborty T.
2025
JournalJMIR · IF 6.0 · SCIE
MenstLLaMA: A Specialized Large Language Model for Menstrual Health Education in India
Adhikary P.K., Motiyani I., Oke G., Joshi M., Pathak K., Singh S.M., Chakraborty T.
2024
ConferenceIJCAI 2024
SUKHSANDESH: An Avatar Therapeutic QA Platform for Sexual Education in Rural India
Singh S.M., Garg S.K., Misra A., Seth A., Chakraborty T.
2024
JournalJMIR Mental Health · IF 4.8 · SCIE
Exploring the Efficacy of LLMs in Summarizing Mental Health Counseling Sessions
Adhikary P.K., Srivastava A., Kumar S., Singh S.M., et al.
Dec2023
News
Joined IIT Delhi as Post Doctoral Fellow — leading Mental Health & AI research thread
Nov2023
Milestone
Defended PhD — "Low-Resource Machine Translation" — NIT Silchar
July2023
News
Joined Crimson AI as Research Scientist — NLP
2022
JournalExpert Systems with Applications · IF 8.665 · SCIE
Low-Resource Machine Translation of English–Manipuri: A Semi-Supervised Approach
Singh S.M. and Singh T.D.
2022
JournalNeural Computing and Applications · IF 5.130 · SCIE
An Empirical Study of Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation of Manipuri in Multilingual Settings
Singh S.M. and Singh T.D.
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Research

What I Work On

Low-Resource Machine Translation

Building translation systems for linguistically underrepresented languages , especially Manipuri and other Tibeto-Burman languages , using multilingual, unsupervised, and multimodal NMT approaches.

Key papers: English–Manipuri Semi-Supervised MT (ESWA 2022) · Multilingual NMT settings (NCAA 2022) · Unsupervised NMT (LoResMT @ AACL-IJCNLP 2020) · WMT 2020 system paper (EMNLP 2020) · Multimodal multilingual NMT (MMTLRL @ RANLP 2021)

AI for Mental Health & Healthcare

Developing LLM-powered tools for mental health support: therapy session summarization, patient history platforms, suicide risk detection, and culturally-sensitive chatbots. Research emphasizes privacy and real-world clinical utility.

Key papers: SAHAY suicide risk detection (IJCAI 2025) · SUKHSANDESH sexual health QA (IJCAI 2024) · MenstLLaMA (JMIR 2025) · Counseling session summarization (JMIR MH 2024) · Psychotherapy summarization (IEEE JBHI 2026)

Multilingual & Multimodal NLP

Investigating the transferability of large pretrained multilingual models (mBART, mT5) to low-resource Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman languages. Also exploring multimodal approaches combining text, image, and speech.

Key papers: Transferability of Multilingual Models (ICON 2021) · Speech-to-Text MT for Manipuri (ICON 2021) · Multimodal WSD (IJCSE 2021) · Video captioning (ICON 2021, Procedia 2023)

Large Language Models & Generative AI

Fine-tuning and deploying LLMs (LLaMA-2/3, Flan-T5, Mistral) for specialized domains using instruction tuning, PEFT/LoRA, and RAG. Work spans paraphrasing, style transfer, and deployment in production systems.

Applied work: Paraphrasing tool for Trinka (Crimson AI) · Style transfer with LLaMA-2/Mistral · LLaMA-3 patient history platform · MenstLLaMA-8B (open-sourced on HuggingFace)
Publications

List of Publications

Journals in chronological order
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IEEE JBHI 2026IF 7.7 · SCIE

Discourse-Guided Summarisation of Psychotherapy Dialogues via Graph-Fused Language Models

Adhikary P.K., Mukherjee A., Sinha Deb K., Singh S., Singh S.M., Chakraborty T. · IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
DOI
5
JMIR 2025IF 6.0 · SCIE

MenstLLaMA: A Specialized Large Language Model for Menstrual Health Education in India

Adhikary P.K., Motiyani I., Oke G., Joshi M., Pathak K., Singh S.M., Chakraborty T. · Journal of Medical Internet Research
DOI Dataset Model
4
JMIR MH 2024IF 4.8 · SCIE

Exploring the Efficacy of Large Language Models in Summarizing Mental Health Counseling Sessions: Benchmark Study

Adhikary P.K., Srivastava A., Kumar S., Singh S.M., Manuja P., Gopinath J.K., Krishnan V., Gupta S.K., Sinha Deb K., Chakraborty T. · JMIR Mental Health
3
ESWA 2022IF 8.665 · SCIE

Low-Resource Machine Translation of English–Manipuri: A Semi-Supervised Approach

Singh S.M. and Singh T.D. · Expert Systems with Applications
2
NCAA 2022IF 5.130 · SCIE

An Empirical Study of Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation of Manipuri in Multilingual Settings

Singh S.M. and Singh T.D. · Neural Computing and Applications
1
IJCSE 2021SCOPUS

Removal of Ambiguity of Noun Using Multimodal Approach

Dutta A., Singh S.M. and Borgohain S.K. · Indian Journal of Computer Science and Engineering
Conferences & Workshops
10
IJCAI 2025

SAHAY: Multimodal, Privacy-Preserving AI for Suicide Risk Detection and Intervention in India

Singh S.M., Sethi M.I., Math S.B., Chakraborty T. · Proceedings of IJCAI 2025
9
IJCAI 2024

SUKHSANDESH: An Avatar Therapeutic Question Answering Platform for Sexual Education in Rural India

Singh S.M., Garg S.K., Misra A., Seth A., Chakraborty T. · Proceedings of IJCAI 2024
8
Procedia CS 2023

VATEX2020: pLSTM Framework for Video Captioning

Singh A., Singh S.M., Meetei L.S., Das R., Singh T.D., Bandyopadhyay S. · Procedia Computer Science
7
Procedia CS 2023

Hindi to English Multimodal Machine Translation on News Dataset in Low Resource Setting

Meetei L.S., Singh S.M., Singh A., Das R., Singh T.D., Bandyopadhyay S. · Procedia Computer Science
6
ICON 2021

On the Transferability of Massively Multilingual Pretrained Models in the Context of Indo-Aryan and Tibeto-Burman Languages

Singh S.M., Meetei L.S., Singh A., Singh T.D., Bandyopadhyay S. · ICON 2021
5
ICON 2021

An Experiment on Speech-to-Text Translation Systems for Manipuri to English on Low Resource Setting

Meetei L.S., Singh S.M., Singh A., Singh T.D., Bandyopadhyay S. · ICON 2021
4
ICON 2021

An Efficient Keyframes Selection-Based Framework for Video Captioning

Singh A., Meetei L.S., Singh S.M., Singh T.D., Bandyopadhyay S. · ICON 2021
3
RANLP 2021

Multiple Captions Embellished Multilingual Multi-Modal Neural Machine Translation

Singh S.M., Meetei L.S., Singh T.D. · MMTLRL @ RANLP 2021
2
WMT 2020

The NITS-CNLP System for the Unsupervised Machine Translation Task at WMT 2020

Singh S.M., Singh T.D., Bandyopadhyay S. · WMT 2020 @ EMNLP 2020
1
LoResMT 2020

Unsupervised Neural Machine Translation for English and Manipuri

Singh S.M. and Singh T.D. · LoResMT 2020 @ AACL-IJCNLP 2020
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Teaching

Courses at IIIT Manipur

CS3081 · Undergraduate
Foundation to Data Science
Jul–Nov 2025  ·  Jul–Nov 2026
PE4058 · Undergraduate
Deep Learning
Jul–Nov 2025
VS3052 · Undergraduate
Machine Learning - 1
Jan–May 2026
CS2042 · Undergraduate
Software Engineering
Jan–May 2026
CS4032 · Undergraduate
Cloud Computing
Jul–Nov 2026
Earlier teaching — Teaching Assistant for Natural Language Processing, Introduction to Programming, and OOP at NIT Silchar (2020–2023); Graduate Teaching Assistant for Data Structures and Intro Programming at NIT Silchar (2018–2019).
About

Biography

Salam Michael Singh is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Manipur, where he has been teaching since July 2025.

His research spans natural language processing, low-resource machine translation, and the application of large language models to mental health and healthcare. He is particularly interested in building NLP systems for linguistically underrepresented communities including Manipuri and other Tibeto-Burman languages. And in developing responsible, privacy-preserving AI tools for real-world healthcare settings.

Before joining IIIT Manipur, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi (Dec 2023 – Jul 2025), where he led the Mental Health & AI research thread at Prof. Tanmoy Chakraborty's group. He received his PhD from NIT Silchar in November 2023 on low-resource machine translation, advised by Dr. Thoudam Doren Singh. In between, he worked briefly as a Research Scientist at Crimson AI, Mumbai, contributing to their Trinka writing assistant.

His work has appeared in IJCAI (×2), and journals including IEEE JBHI, JMIR, Expert Systems with Applications, and Neural Computing and Applications.

Research Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Low-Resource Machine Translation
  • AI for Mental Health & Healthcare
  • Multilingual & Multimodal NLP
  • Large Language Models
  • Generative AI
Education
  • PhD CSE · NIT Silchar · 2019–2023
  • M.Tech CSE · NIT Silchar · 2017–2019
  • B.Tech CSE · NIT Arunachal Pradesh · 2012–2016
Professional Service
  • ACL Member
  • PC: MMTLRL 2021 @ RANLP
  • Reviewer: COLING 2022, ICON 2021/22
  • Journals: MTAP, JEI
Contact Information
IIIT Manipur, Mantripukhri, Manipur, India

I am open to hearing from prospective collaborators, students interested in NLP and mental health AI, and researchers working on low-resource language technology. Please include a brief description of your interests and, if relevant, your CV when writing.