Education

  • PhD, UC San Diego, 2016,

Thesis Title: Bayesian Sparse Signal Recovery using Scale Mixtures with Applications to Speech

  • MS in Intelligent Systems and Signal Processing, UC San Diego, 2013 (GPA: 3.91)
  • BE in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Jadavpur University (India), 2011

Graduate coursework: Probability theory, Random Processes, Principles of Artificial Intelligence:Probabilistic Reasoning, Parameter Estimation, Convex Optimization, Principles of Artificial Intelligence: Learning, Statistical Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Bayesian Methods, Digital Signal Processing I, Digital Signal Processing II: Adaptive Filtering, Filter Banks and Wavelets, Special Topics in Multimodal/Vision Systems, Compressed Sensing and Sparsity.

Schooling:

  • I attended Patha Bhavan, Dankuni for secondary schooling and Uttarpara Govt High School for higher secondary schooling.

Honors:

  • Top 5% of the graduating class, Jadavpur University, 2011.
  • National Scholarship for securing high rank in 10th standard examination in 2005.
  • Recipient of ECE Departmental Fellowship at UCSD for 2011-2012 academic year.
  • Selected as a Gordon Scholar for Engineering Leadership, 2013.