Publications:

• Submission under review: Learning Compact Regular Decision Processes using Priors and Cascades. Coauthors - Anders Jonsson, Alessandro Ronca, Mohammad Sadegh Talebi

•  Workshop paper presented at EWRL 2025: Learning Compact Regular Decision Processes using Priors and Cascades. Authors - Ahana Deb, Anders Jonsson, Alessandro Ronca, Mohammad Sadegh Talebi.

• Conference paper accepted at ICLR 2025: Offline RL in Regular Decision Processes: Sample Efficiency via Language Metrics, Coauthors - Roberto Cipollone, Anders Jonsson, Alessandro Ronca, Mohammad Sadegh Talebi.

• Workshop paper accepted for EWRL 2024: Tractable Offline Learning of Regular Decision Processes. Coauthors - Roberto Cipollone, Anders Jonsson, Alessandro Ronca, Mohammad Sadegh Taleb.

• BeAts: Bengali Speech Act Recognition using Multimodal Attention Fusion [Oral presentation at INTERSPEECH 2023]. Coauthors - Sayan Nag, Ayan Mahapatra, Soumitri Chattopadhyay, Aritra Marik, Pijush Kanti Gayen, Shankha Sanyal, Archi Banerjee, Samir Karmakar.

• Inverse reinforcement learning with linearly-solvable MDPs for multiple reward functions , TFM UPF. Supervisors - Anders Jonsson,  Vicenç Gómez, Mario Ceresa.

• Oral Presentation in 26th International Symposium on Frontiers of Research in Speech and Music 2021 (FRSM 2021) Emotion and Instrument audio classification of Indian Classical Music recordings using neural networks. Awarded Best Paper Award in the Track on ”Applications”. Coauthors - Sayan Nag, Ayan Mahapatra, Soumitri Chattopadhyay, Aritra Marik, Pijush Kanti Gayen, Shankha Sanyal, Archi Banerjee, Samir Karmakar.

Education:

• PhD student at AI&ML group under Prof. Anders Jonsson, focussing on Regular Decision Processes, at Universitat Pompeu Farba, Barcelona (2023-).

•  Masters degree in Intelligent Interactive Systems at Universitat Pompeu Farba, Barcelona (2022-2023).

• Bachelors degree in Instrumentaiton and Electronics Engineering at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India (2016-2020).

Experience:

• Research Intern at INRIA, Lille, France, under the supervision of Debabrota Basu (supported by ELLIS Mobility Fund), 2025.

• Attended AISTATS 2024, Valencia.

• Attended ESSAI & ACAI summer school at Universa v Ljubljani, 2023.

•  Attended and helped in organisation of Reinforcement Learning Summer School (RLSS 2023), UPF, Barcelona.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant at Universitat Pompeu Farba, Barcelona, (2023- ).

• Research Assistant at Sir C.V. Raman Centre for Music and Physics at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. (2020-2023).

• Research intern at TCS innovation labs, Kolkata, India, 2019.