Academic Qualifications
Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH) (2020 - Present)
M.Sc. Statistics (Hons.) University of Kalyani (2018 - 2020)
B.Sc. Statistics (Hons) University of Calcutta (2017)
Academic Qualifications
Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IITH) (2020 - Present)
M.Sc. Statistics (Hons.) University of Kalyani (2018 - 2020)
B.Sc. Statistics (Hons) University of Calcutta (2017)
Talks and Participation
Presentation of our paper Aerial Mirage: Unmasking Hallucinations in Large Vision Language Models at WACV 2025 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. [March 2025]
Oral presentation of our paper Transformer based Multitask Learning for Image Captioning and Object Detection at PAKDD 2024 in Taipei, Taiwan. [May 2024]
Poster presentation for TiHAN at IIT Hyderabad. [March 2024]
Participated in the Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML) 2023 at IIT Bombay, India. [Dec 2023]
Student Volunteer at Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML) 2022, held at ISB Hyderabad, India. [Dec 2022]
Experience
Research PhD internship at Adobe Research, Bangalore: (June'25 - present)
Modality importance guided Document Understanding – Working on analysis of modality bias in Multimodal Document Question Answering, where there is an inherent textual bias in Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). Understanding and analysis of this bias, and how to mitigate it to improve model behaviour.
Teaching Assistant (TA) in courses (IIT Hyderabad):
AI5000/CS5590 – Foundations in Machine Learning (FOML) (Aug’21 – Dec’21)
CS5480 – Deep Learning (DL) (Jan’22 – May’22)
CS5803 – Natural Language Processing (NLP) (Jan’24 – May’24, Jan’25 – May’25)
CS6803 – Topics in NLP (Aug'24 - Dec'24)
Took lectures/hands-on sessions in NLP and Topics in NLP courses.
Mentorship (IIT Hyderabad):
For course projects in CS5803 – Natural Language Processing (NLP) (Jan’24 – May’24)
For course projects in CS6803 – Topics in NLP (Aug'24 - Dec'24)
Mentored two B.Tech students' thesis (Feb’24 – July' 24)
Project mentor of four students from Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies (AIET) bootcamp (jointly partnered by NSE Talent Sprint) (Dec’23 – Jan’24)
Achievements
Received Research Excellence Award at IIT Hyderabad on 17th Foundation Day! [April 2, 2025]
Selected for the WACV 2025 travel award, consisting of paper registration fee waiver and a travel grant of 1500 USD.
Granted PhD Fellowship under TiHAN IIT Hyderabad (Technology Innovation Hub on Autonomous Navigation), National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), by Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India.
Qualified for GATE 2020 (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) with an All India Rank of 164.
Skills
Programming Languages: Python, C/C++
Libraries and Tools: PyTorch, Tensorflow, HuggingFace Transformers, Scikit-learn, Scikit-Image, OpenCV, Numpy, Pandas
Miscellaneous: Latex, Git, Shell script, Linux OS, OOP
Languages: English, Bengali, Hindi