Debaditya Roy

"Always do your best, whatever you plant now will harvest later" - Og Mandino

Email - debaditya at cse dot iitkgp dot ac dot in

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

I was a Senior Scientist at the Institute of High-Performance Computing, A*STAR, Singapore working on Action Anticipation, Situated Reasoning and Neurosymbolic AI with Dr. Basura Fernando. 

Previously, I was a post-doctoral researcher working with Prof. Atsushi Fukuda in the Department of Transportation Engineering  at Nihon University, Japan in the M2Smart project funded by JICA and JST. 

I received my doctoral degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad as a member of the Visual Learning and Intelligence (VIGIL) lab. I was advised by Prof. C. Krishna Mohan and my thesis was titled Representation Learning for Action Recognition. My work on snatch theft detection was featured in The Hindu, a leading daily newspaper in India.