Publications, Reports & Presentations

2025

[11]   RLSF: Fine-tuning LLMs via Symbolic Feedback

Piyush Jha, Prithwish Jana, Pranavkrishna Suresh, Arnav Arora, Vijay Ganesh

ECAI-2025 (28th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
[arXiv] [25-30 Oct 2025, Bologna, Italy] (Acceptance Rate: 23%)

2024

[10]   CoTran: An LLM-based Code Translator using Reinforcement Learning with Feedback from Compiler and Symbolic Execution

Prithwish Jana, Piyush Jha, Haoyang Ju, Gautham Kishore, Aryan Mahajan, Vijay Ganesh

ECAI-2024 (27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence)  (Presented)
[Link] [arXiv] [19-24 Oct 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain] (Acceptance Rate: 23%)

[9]   NeuroSymbolic LLM for Mathematical Reasoning and Software Engineering

Prithwish Jana

IJCAI-2024 (33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Doctoral Consortium) (Presented)
[Link] [Proceedings pp. 8492-8493; IJCAI, 3-9 Aug 2024, Jeju Island, South Korea] (Acceptance Rate: 17%)

2022

[8]  Scheduling Virtual Conferences Fairly: Achieving Equitable Participant and Speaker Satisfaction 

Gourab K Patro, Prithwish Jana, Abhijnan Chakraborty, Krishna P Gummadi, Niloy Ganguly
TheWebConf-2022 (31st The ACM Web Conference (formerly WWW))
[ACM] [PDF] [Dataset & Codes] [Proceedings pp. 2646–2656; ACM WWW, 25-29 Apr 2022, Lyon, France] (Acceptance Rate: 17.7%)

2021

[7]  Unsupervised Action Localization Crop in Video Retargeting for 3D ConvNets 

Prithwish Jana, Swarnabja Bhaumik, Partha Pratim Mohanta
TENCON-2021 (IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific) Conference) (Presented)
[IEEE] [ResearchGate] [arXiv] [PDF] [Proceedings pp. 670-675, IEEE TENCON, 7-10 December 2021, Auckland, New Zealand; IEEE, 2021]

[6]  AutoDrone: Shortest Optimized Obstacle-Free Path Planning for Autonomous Drones 

Prithwish Jana, Debasish Jana
IEM-ICDC-2021 (Springer International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Data Science and Cloud Computing) (Presented)
[Springer] [ResearchGate] [arXiv] [PDF] [Proceedings pp. 3-15; Book Series "Algorithms for Intelligent Systems"; Springer, Singapore, 2022]

2020

[5]  Two Stage Semantic Segmentation by SEEDS and Fork Net 

Aritra Mukherjee, Prithwish Jana, Sayak Chakraborty, Sanjoy Kumar Saha
CALCON-2020 (IEEE Calcutta Conference) [2nd Runner-Up in Student Paper Contest]
[IEEE] [PDF] [Proceedings pp. 283-287; IEEE, 2020]

2019

[4]   A Multi-tier Fusion Strategy for Event Classification in Unconstrained Videos

Prithwish Jana, Swarnabja Bhaumik, Partha Pratim Mohanta
PReMI-2019 (Springer 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence) (Presented)
[Springer] [ResearchGate] [PDF] [Proceedings pp. 515-524; Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11942. Springer, Cham, 2019]

[3]   Key-Frame based Event Recognition in Unconstrained Videos using Temporal Features

Prithwish Jana, Swarnabja Bhaumik, Partha Pratim Mohanta
TENSYMP-2019 (IEEE Region 10 Symposium) (Presented)
[IEEE] [ResearchGate] [PDF] [Proceedings pp. 349-354; IEEE, 2019]

2017

[2]   Handwritten Document Image Binarization: An Adaptive K-means Based Approach

Prithwish Jana, Soulib Ghosh, Suman Kumar Bera, Ram Sarkar
CALCON-2017 (IEEE Calcutta Conference) (Presented)
[IEEE] [PDF] [Proceedings pp. 226-230; IEEE, 2017]

[1]   A Fuzzy C-Means Based Approach Towards Efficient Document Image Binarization

Prithwish Jana, Soulib Ghosh, Ram Sarkar, Mita Nasipuri
ICAPR-2017 (IEEE 9th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition) (Presented)
[IEEE] [PDF] [Proceedings pp. 332-337; IEEE, 2017]

2022

[3]   SALiEnSeA: Spatial Action Localization & Temporal Attention for Video Event Recognition

Prithwish Jana, Swarnabja Bhaumik, Partha Pratim Mohanta
IJCISIM (In Journal: International Journal of Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications)
[IJCISIM] [ResearchGate] [PDF] [pp. 270-284, Volume 14(2022), ISSN 2150-7988, Machine Intelligence Research Labs, USA, 2022]

[2]   Recent Trends in 2D Object Detection and Applications in Video Event Recognition

Prithwish Jana, Partha Pratim Mohanta
DLODR (In Book: Advancement of Deep Learning and its Applications in Object Detection and Recognition)
[RiverPublishers] [ResearchGate] [arXiv] [River Publishers, 2022]

2021

[1]   Event and Activity Recognition in Video Surveillance for Cyber-Physical Systems

Swarnabja Bhaumik, Prithwish Jana, Partha Pratim Mohanta
CPSIoT (In Book: Emergence of Cyber Physical System and IoT in Smart Automation and Robotics; Computer Engineering in Automation)
[Springer Nature] [arXiv] [Book Preface & Contents] [PDF] [pp. 51-68, Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI) book series, Springer Nature, 2021]

[2]   Abstraction-of-Thought: Intermediate Representations for LLM Reasoning in Hardware Design

Matthew DeLorenzo, Kevin Tieu, Prithwish Jana, Piyush Jha, Dileep Kalathil, Vijay Ganesh, Jeyavijayan Rajendran
[arXiv] [arXiv:2505.15873]

[1]   Reducing Opinion Echo-Chambers by Intelligent Placement of Moderate-Minded Agents

Prithwish Jana, Romit Roy Choudhury, Niloy Ganguly
[arXiv] [arXiv:2304.10745]

[2]   Fairness in Virtual Conference Scheduling

Prithwish Jana (Advisor: Prof. Niloy Ganguly)
Masters' Thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2022.

Best Masters’ Thesis Project Award
[PDF]

[1]   A Real-Time Semantic Image Segmentation Approach Through Region-Partitioning

Prithwish Jana (Advisor: Prof. Sanjoy Kumar Saha)
Undergraduate Thesis, Jadavpur University, 2020.
[PDF]

[8]   Neuro-Symbolic Techniques for LLM-based Code Generation and Auto-Formalization of Proofs

Prithwish Jana, Vijay Ganesh

Technical Track Talk @ 25th High Confidence Software and Systems (HCSS) Conference, Maryland, USA (Presented) 

[Proceedings]

[6]   Video Object Segmentation with Language Referring Expressions

Prithwish Jana, Mehul Vaidya

CS60010 Deep Learning: Paper Presentation, IIT Kharagpur, 2021. (Presented) 

[Slides] [ACCV-2018 Paper by Khoreva et al.]

[5]   Counterfactual Fairness

Prithwish Jana

M.Tech Seminar-II Report, IIT Kharagpur, 2021. (Presented) 

[PDF]

[4]   A Study of Distributed Event Streaming & Publish-Subscribe Systems

Manasvi Sagarkar, Vipray Jain, Thakur Rishabh Sanjeev, Prithwish Jana, Rohit, Argha Sen. (Equal contribution of all authors)
CS60002 Distributed Systems: Term-Project Technical Report, IIT Kharagpur, 2021. (Presented)
[PDF] [ResearchGate]

[3]   gem5 System Simulator on N-Queens Program

Prithwish Jana, Amar Singh, Trapti Singh, Amaljith E.V, Ram Kishor Yadav, Rohit, Anupam Mondal, Danny Jeron Pereira, Chandan Kumar, Debadrita Talapatra, Sayani Sinha. (Equal contribution of all authors)
CS60003 High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA): Assignment Technical Report, IIT Kharagpur, 2021. (Presented)
[PDF] [ResearchGate]

[2]    Shortest Path Traversal by Autonomous Vehicles and Drones in Euclidean Space

Prithwish Jana
IISF YSC-2020 (Young Scientists' Conference at 6th India International Science Festival) (Presented)

[Abstract] [Proceedings by Govt. of India, 2020]