Biography

A computer scientist by training, Tanmay has developed knowledge and skills within text mining, natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques since his master degree. His master's thesis describes the scopes of machine learning algorithms for retrieving geographical information from text, which helped him to gain the doctoral degree in Computer Science with emphasis on machine learning and text mining. His doctoral thesis explains some novel text clustering and classification methods. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University, Chicago and then at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. During this time, he worked on various projects related to information extraction from biomedical literature and clinical notes using machine learning and NLP. 

In 2017, he came back to his homeland and spent few years as a junior faculty at Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Belur Math, West Bengal, India. There he gained experience by teaching and mentoring the MSc Computer Science and MSc Data Science students in different topics of machine learning and NLP.

He moved to the University of Birmingham in August 2019 as a Research Fellow, to work on developing methods and tools for information extraction from clinical letters and social media and to collaborate with other researchers and clinicians to develop novel solutions. During this time worked on various problems e.g., early prediction of heart failure, identify various geometric errors of radiotherapy from relevant literature etc. 

He joined Indian Institute of Science Education and Research as an assistant professor of data science in June 2021. He teaches various subjects of data science e.g., NLP, machine learning etc. He also supervises the theses of the graduate and undergraduate students. He has set up a Biomedical Data Science Lab to work on developing novel tools and applications for information extraction from different types of unstructured biomedical data e.g., radiology images, reports, prescriptions etc.

Academic Qualification:

• BSc. in Computer Application (Major) from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math affiliated to University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, 2005

• MCA from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, 2008

• PhD in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, 2015

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor (Grade 1) at Department of Data Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research, Bhopal,  June, 2021 to till  date

• Topic Editor, Information, MDPI, Switzerland, February, 2021 to till  date

• Research Fellow at Center for Computational Biology, Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences in University of Birmingham, UK during August, 2019 to April, 2021

• Research Fellow at Health Data Research (HDR) UK Midlands Site,  University of Birmingham, UK during August, 2019 to April, 2021

• Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal, India during January 2018 to July, 2019

• Guest Lecturer at Department of Computer Science, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Belur Math, Howrah, West Bengal, India during March 2017 to December 2017

• Postdoctoral Fellow at Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA during June 2016 to February 2017

• Postdoctoral Fellow at Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA during December, 2015 to June 2016

• Visiting Scientist, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India during July, 2015 to November, 2015