Current role:
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences (SMCS), Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science since 2020.
Research interest:
Natural language processing
Machine learning
Information retrieval
Digital library technologies
School & college days:
I completed my schooling from Vivekananda Mission School (VMS), Kolkata. Founded with an aim to actualize Swami Vivekananda's vision of man-making education, it was run by Principal Sister Keya Sinha and a wonderful group of teachers. I am eternally grateful to my most respected and beloved teachers at VMS. The opening lines of our prayer still resonate in my ears: "I search for Thee, O Almighty, / In my poor and illiterate brothers". I spent my primary school days at the Natunpara campus, which sadly no longer exists, and continued my secondary education up to class XII at the Joka campus. I completed ICSE in 1999 and ISC in 2001.
I obtained BE (Information Technology) from Jadavpur University in 2005. Subsequently, I received my PhD (Engineering) from the same University in 2012. My PhD thesis was supervised by Prof. Samiran Chattopadhyay (Department of Information Technology, JU) and Prof. Matangini Chattopadhyay (School of Education Technology, JU).
Work experience:
I have spent my professional time across industry and academia, sometimes serially, sometimes concurrently. Before joining IACS, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the National Digital Library of India Project at IIT Kharagpur (2017 - 2020) where I worked closely with Prof. Partha Pratim Das (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur) and Prof. Plaban Kumar Bhowmick (currently at Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence, IIT Kharagpur). Earlier I was on the faculty of the School of Computer Engineering, KIIT Deemed University (2013 - 2016) and a guest lecturer in the Department of Information Technology, Jadavpur University.
I have spent quite a few years in the Industry working for reputed companies like Infosys, Bengaluru, Interra Systems, Kolkata, and Xilinx (now AMD), Hyderabad. At Infosys, I was involved in the implementation of SIP / VoIP in telecom switches for an overseas client. At Interra and Xilinix, I worked as a senior engineer / team lead to design several high-performance systems for electronic design automation.
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