Debtanu Datta, pursuing PhD (joint supervision with Prof. Adrijit Goswami, Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur)
Broad topic: NLP over legal text in Indian languages
Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)
Koyena Chowdhury, pursuing PhD
Broad topic: Use of AI in the Transportation domain
Rohit Dutta, pursuing PhD (joint supervision with Professor Niloy Ganguly, CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
Broad topic: Sustainable AI, studying energy consumption of AI models
IndiaAI PhD Fellowship
Diya Saha, pursuing PhD (joint supervision with Dr. Tirthankar Dasgupta, TCS Research)
Broad topic: AI for Sustainability
Working Professional at TCS Research
Arkabrato Chakraborty, pursuing PhD (joint supervision with Dr. Abir Das, CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
Broad topic: Computer vision
Sudipta Santra, pursuing PhD
Broad topic: Understanding internal workings of Large Language Models
Trishita Saha, pursuing PhD (joint supervision with Prof. Pawan Goyal, CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
Broad topic: NLP in Legal domain
Submitted thesis from IIT Jodhpur (joint supervision with Prof. Gaurav Harit, IIT Jodhpur)
PhD thesis: Multimodal Indian Legal Document Understanding
Completed PhD from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in March 2026 (joint supervision with Dr. Pawan Goyal, CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
PhD thesis: Grounding Legal AI through Statute Identification: Towards Comprehensive Modeling of Indian Law
Best M.Tech. thesis award at CSE, IITKGP
Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)
Joined Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany as postdoc
Completed PhD from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in February 2026 (joint supervision with Dr. Kripabandhu Ghosh, IISER Kolkata)
PhD thesis: Legal Document Summarization: From Extractive to Generative Models
Completed PhD from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in January 2026
PhD thesis: Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on Vaccine-Opinions through Social Media Analyses
Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)
Joined NielsenIQ
Completed PhD from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in May 2025 (joint supervision with Dr. Abir Das, CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
PhD thesis: Overcoming Data Limitations and Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Scene Understanding
Joined IBM Research --> Microsoft
Completed PhD from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in February 2023 (joint supervision with Dr. Animesh Mukherjee, CSE, IIT Kharagpur)
PhD thesis: Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval Algorithms on E-commerce Platforms
TCS PhD Fellowship
IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best In-Session Presentation Award
Joined Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany as postdoc
Completed PhD from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in August 2022
PhD thesis: Text and Graph Processing Methods for Assisting Legal Practitioners [pdf]
TCS PhD Fellowship
JURIX 2019 Best Paper Award
ICAIL 2021 Best Student Paper Award
Joined Bosch Research
Completed PhD from Department of CST, IIEST Shibpur in May 2022 (joint supervision with Professor Sekhar Mandal, CST, IIEST Shibpur)
PhD thesis: Catchphrases in Legal Case Documents: Identification and Applications [pdf]
Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship
Joined the University of Southampton, UK as postdoc
Completed PhD from Department of CST, IIEST Shibpur in March 2021 (joint supervision with Professor Sipra DasBit, CST, IIEST Shibpur)
PhD thesis: Utilizing Social Media for Post-Disaster Resource Allocation and Emergency Preparedness [pdf]
Completed MS from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in March 2021
PhD thesis: Utilizing Social Media for Health Analytics [pdf]
Joined Siemens Tech & Services --> PhD at Indiana University Bloomington
Completed PhD from Department of CST, IIEST Shibpur in March 2019 (joint supervision with Professor Asit Kr. Das, CST, IIEST Shibpur)
PhD thesis: Information Filtering and Organisation in Social Microblogging Sites [pdf]