Academics

Education

[Jan'16 - ...] Ph.D. in Machine Learning at CSE, IIT Hyderabad:

Pursuing Ph.D. at CSE, IIT Hyderabad under the supervision of Dr. Maunendra Sankar Desarkar

• • • Awarded high-value Visvesvaraya fellowship, (MEITY) to pursue Ph.D (only awarded to 500 Computer Science candidates till date)

    • Teaching Assistant

      • • CS6370 - Information Retrieval (3 Credits) for total 72 UG (4th year) and PG students: https://www.iith.ac.in/~maunendra/courses/cs6370.html

          • Support Vector Machine notes I prepared for this course: https://www.overleaf.com/2284352973wvfsfbkfckgq

          • Text Processing Hands-on: Colab Notebook

          • Helped instructor by suggesting term projects and guided students with projects

        • [Oct - Nov 20] SM5051 - Introduction to Programming (1 Credit): Teaching introductory programming in Python to 17 PG (1st year) M.Tech students in "Smart Mobility"

        • CS5330 - Introduction to Statistical Natural Language Processing (2 Credits) for total 30 M.Tech in Data Science (EMDS) students

        • CS1353 - Introduction to Data Structures (3 Credits) for total ~150 UG (1st and 2nd year) students

    • Organizer of two GIAN (an MHRD, GOI initiative) courses at IIT Hyderabad

      • • [13 - 17 Jun'16] Enabling Large Scale Data Analytics: From Theoretical Foundations to Practice

        • [11 - 14 Dec'17] Social and Information Networks Analysis: Problems, Models and Machine Learning Methods

    • [Jun'16 - Aug'20] Webmaster of Green Office initiative: The Green Office at IIT Hyderabad encourages people to "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Turn-Off". The team consists of students, faculty and staff of IIT Hyderabad

[Jul'10 - May'12] M.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur

Completed Masters (M.Tech) under the supervision of Dr. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti focused in Artificial Intelligence (Sponsored by General Motors).

• • • Thesis: Design Heuristic Approach to Message Assignment and Interface Device Minimization Problem

    • Teaching Assistant:

      • Programming and Data Structure Lab for total 97 UG (1st year) students

      • Low Power Circuits and Systems for total 46 UG and PG students

    • Attended 3-day winter course on "Introduction to Intellectual Property" conducted by Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, IIT Kharagpur and 5-day short-term course on "Knowledge-based Systems in Soft Computing" conducted by Dr. D. K. Pratihar in Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur

    • Participant of Bengali society বৈকালিক (Boikalik)

[Aug'04 - Jul'08] B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering at West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT)

• • • 4 weeks Summer Training in Software Technology Group Limited, Kolkata as part of B.Tech vocational training in the month of August 2007. We worked on a project called "Personal Information Management System" which can be used to keep track of personal details of a large organization. We used Java and JSP to create business logic and front end respectively and MySQL as backend database

Participations (Summer School, Data Study Group, etc):

[Cancelled] Selected for Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning Summer School with International Travel Grant:

• • • Selected with travel grant (C$ 3800) in 2-week "Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning Summer School (20DLRLSS)" at Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute (MILA), Montréal, Quebec, Canada

    • NOTE: Event got cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic

[19 - 30 Aug'19] Participated in BMS Summer School with International Travel Grant:

• • • Participated in Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) Summer School with international travel grant (€ 880/-) at Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany. The theme of the summer school was "Mathematics of Deep Learning" covering topics like generalization, expressivity, and explainability, as well as on applications of deep neural networks.

[16 - 20 Apr'19] Selected for Alan Turing Data Study Group with grant:

• • • Selected with grant (£ 200/-) in Alan Turing Data Study Group (DSG) at The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. This is a collaborative work where researchers from around the world worked on one of six real-world data science problems submitted by Company or NGO's.

Courses:

In-class courses:

• • • [IIT Hyderabad] Predictive Analysis and Knowledge Discovery

    • [IIT Hyderabad] Information Retrieval

    • [IIT Hyderabad] Natural Language Processing

    • [IIT Hyderabad] Applied Deep Learning

Online courses (Coursera):

• • • [University of Alberta] Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning: Currently pursuing

    • [deeplearning.ai] [Aug'20] Natural Language Processing with Classification and Vector Spaces: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/6BSCHMJGK3Q2

    • [deeplearning.ai] [Feb'18] Structuring Machine Learning Projects: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/5YAGZ2NED4JG

    • [deeplearning.ai] [Dec'17] Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/CBJC6JAV5VQH

    • [deeplearning.ai] [Dec'17] Neural Networks and Deep Learning: https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/verify/ST663ABPEUFQ

Test Scores

[Aug'16] Versant English Test Score:

• • • Overall: 68 out of 70

[Feb'10] Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE):

• • • Examination for the Admission of M.Tech on behalf of Department of Higher Education, Govt. of India

    • Percentile: 99.54

    • Country Rank: 483 out of 107086

    • Score: 737 out of 1000

[Jan'10] CST-G level:

• • • Percentile: 98

[Mar'04] Joint Entrance Examination for Polytechnique (JEXPO):

• • • Percentile: 98.41

    • State Rank: 950