Saptarshi Bej acquired his master’s degree at IISER-Kolkata in Mathematics, with a specialization in graph theory. He worked as a research assistant briefly at the University of Paderborn, Germany. Later, he joined the Systems Biology and Bioinformatics group at the University of Rostock, Germany, in January 2018, where he worked alongside Prof. Olaf Wolkenhauer for five years. There he did research on Machine Learning (ML) and its diverse applications in clinical and bio-medical fields. He won the DAAD prize awarded (to international students with exceptional academic records) by the University of Rostock in 2020 and obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Rostock, Germany, in January 2022, focussing on developing algorithms for synthetic data generation.