I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. My research interests are in Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, particularly data efficient learning, continual learning, domain adaptation, generative AI, etc.

November 2025 - Present: Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

November 2019 - October 2025: Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

October 2013 - October 2019: Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

2012 - 2013: Research Scientist, GE John F. Welch Technology Centre, Bangalore, India

2010 - 2012: Research Assistant Professor - University of Notre Dame, USA

2004 - 2009: PhD (Electrical Engineering) - University of Maryland, College Park, USA (Advisor: Prof. Rama Chellappa)

2002 - 2004: M.Tech (Electrical Engineering) - Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

1997 - 2001: B.E. (Electrical Engineering) - Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Contact Information

Room No. C 320  (Second floor)

Department of Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Science

Bangalore - 560 012, Karnataka, India

Email: somabiswas@iisc.ac.in

Phone: 08022933538