Teaching Experience
I believe in sharing knowledge and empowering the next generation of researchers and practitioners. Here's a summary of my teaching activities:
Teaching Assistant
- Data Science Course - PGDBA (Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration), Indian Statistical Institute, Fall 2021
- Machine Learning-II Course - M.Tech. in Computer Science, Indian Statistical Institute, Fall 2023
Workshops & Lectures
- Instructor for AIVOT's Startup Developers - Conducted a comprehensive two-week workshop covering basics of machine learning to advanced deep learning (August 2023)
- Regular Speaker - "Summer School on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing", Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (7th, 8th, and 9th editions: 2022-2024)
- Lecture Series - "Winter School on Deep Learning: From Perceptrons to Transformers" (WSDL), Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (2022-2024)
Student Supervision
I have had the privilege of supervising and mentoring numerous talented students throughout their academic journeys:
Research Interns Supervision
Supervised 8+ undergraduate and graduate research interns from various notable academic institutes since 2022, including:
- Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata
- National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela
- National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli
- Jadavpur University (JU)
Guided students through various projects, including:
- GraphMol: Decoding Molecule Patterns with Graph Neural Network (Led a team of Master and B.Tech students)
- StANO: Style Based Anomaly Detection in Medical Images (Team project with B.Tech student from NIT)
- Mixup Augmentation: Investigating the Effectiveness of Mixup Augmentation Techniques in Supervised and Semi-supervised Learning (Team project with B.Tech students from Jadavpur University)
Supervised M.Tech Computer Science Students from ISI Kolkata
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Anirban Dey (June, 2023)
Dissertation: "Addressing Class Imbalance in Image Classification using Deep Feature Mixing"
Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata -
V S Siva Kumar Lakkoju (June, 2023)
Dissertation: "TFNet: Time and Frequency Modeling for Irregular Multivariate Medical Time Series"
Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata -
Sasanka Jana (June, 2024)
Dissertation: "Enhancing Confidence Calibration in Long-Tailed Recognition"
Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit (ECSU), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata -
Sarbajit Dey (June, 2024)
Dissertation: "Learning with Long-Tailed Noisy Labels"
Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
Reviewer Duties
Contributing to scientific progress by providing peer reviews for prestigious journals and conferences:
Journal Reviews
- IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2023-present)
- IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (TETCI) (2023-present)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Network and Learning Systems (TNNLS) (2023-present)
- Pattern Recognition (2024-present)
- Applied Soft Computing (2022-present)
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) (2024-present)
- Springer Nature Computer Science (March 2024-present)
Conference Reviews
- 5th International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems COMSYS-2024
- IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) 2024 & 2025
- IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2025
Organizational Roles
Taking on leadership roles to organize academic events and enhance community engagement:
Organizing Chair
3rd Winter School on Deep Learning 2024 (WSDL-2024), organized by ECSU, ISI Kolkata
Organizing and Web Chair
2nd Winter School on Deep Learning 2023 (WSDL-2023), organized by ECSU, ISI Kolkata
Committee Member and Web Chair
1st Winter School on Deep Learning 2022 (WSDL-2022), organized by ECSU, ISI Kolkata
Idea and Design Head
Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) ZHCET, AMU (2015-2017)