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About
Malay Bhattacharyya is currently an Assistant Professor of Machine Intelligence Unit, an Associate Member of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and an Associate Member of Technology Innovation Hub on Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Data Curation at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He is a certified Design Thinker from MIT Sloan School of Management and holds a doctorate in CS from Indian Statistical Institute. He has about 7 years of teaching and 14 years of research experience including short academic visits at Stanford University, University of Ljubljana, and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is presently serving in The Lancet COVID-19 Commission: India Task Force.
His current research interests encompass Crowdsourcing, Big Data Analysis, and Computational Biology. He has published research studies in high-impact journals like Cell, Nature Medicine, and The Lancet Microbe. His research has received generous funding from DRDO, Google, DST and MeitY, Government of India, totaling INR 3 Crores (~ USD 0.4M). He is a recipient of the Impact Scholars Award from Google (2021), Young Engineer Award from INAE (2018), Young Engineers Award from IEI (2016-17), BIRD Award from Bioclues Organization (2015), Young Scientist Award from ISCA (2013-14), and won several best paper and best reviewer awards. He became an INAE Young Associate in 2018 and a Sir Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellow in 2015-16. He reinforces Talent Development to companies like Tata Steel.
