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Sayantan Das                                                                       



        Email: sayantan.das@queensu.ca                      GitHub: //ucalyptus
        Alternate Email: sdas.codes@gmail.com               LinkedIn: //ucalyptus


Research interests      Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision.

Education               Queen’s University                                      Kingston, Canada
                        MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering           Sept 2021 – Present
                        Mentor: Professor Ali Etemad. GPA: 4.0/4.3
                        Teaching Assistantships: ELEC 390, APSC 143
                        Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology            Kolkata, India
                        BTech in Computer Science and Engineering            July 2016 – July 2020
                        Mentors: Professors Sourav Saha, and Amit Kumar Das. GPA: 8.39/10.0

Publications            Topo Sampler: A Topology Constrained Noise Sampling for GANs
                        [SPOTLIGHT]
First Authors in Bold   Adrish Dey, Sayantan Das
                        NeurIPS 2020 Workshop TDA and Beyond

                        Dual Attention Residual Band Selection Network for Spectral-Spatial
                        Hyperspectral Classification
First Authors in Bold   Swalpa Kumar Roy, Sayantan Das, Tiecheng Song, Bhabatosh Chanda
                        IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (Impact Factor:3.38), 2020.

Work Experience         Queen’s University
                        Mentor: Dr Ali Etemad                                     Sep 2021 – Present
                        Applications of self-supervised Learning (SSL) methods on Facial Forensics.
                        ETH Zurich
                        Mentors: Dr Bastian Rieck                                Sep 2020 – Feb 2021
                        Manifold Learning for Generative Models, Topological Data Analysis
                        Indian Statistical Institute
                        Mentors: Dr Bhabatosh Chanda, Dr Swalpa Kumar Roy Mar 2020 - Jul 2020
                        Worked at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Unit, ISI Kolkata un-
                        der Prof. Bhabatosh Chanda on Hyperspectral Satellite Imagery applications.
                        A work accepted to IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters was done
                        during this internship.
                        Indian Space Research Organisation
                        Mentors: Manavalu Ramanujam, Jalpa Modi                June 2019 – Aug 2019
                        Worked at the Signal and Image Processing Group Lab on Satellite Imagery
                        applications in military surveillance such as Ground Moving Target Indica-
                        tion(GMTI) using Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) microwave images from
                        Sentinel-2 and indian satellites.
Projects              BongoVaad
                      BongoVaad is a python framework to transcribe Bengali YouTube videos using
                      Whisper Large V2. I performed Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA) finetuning of
                      this model on Mozilla Common Voice 13 dataset.
                      esrgan-cli
                      The ESRGAN CLI package is a command-line tool that enhances images using
                      the ESRGAN (Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks)
                      algorithm. It provides a convenient interface to interact with an ESRGAN API
                      service and process images for improved visual quality.
                      AskTRS
                      A Gradio webapp (hosted on Huggingface Spaces) to perform vector-
                      based search and response (Retrieval Augmented Generation in NLP) using
                      Langchain, FAISS and OpenAI Embeddings.
Technical Reports     Inject Noise to Remove Noise: A Deep Dive into Score-Based Generative
                      Modeling Techniques
                      The Geometry of Deep Generative Image Models
                      Pivotal Tuning for Latent-Based Editing of Real Images
Academic Service      Poster 27 Ontario Workshop on Computer Vision
                      Program Committee, Reviewer ICML 2021 - LatinX in AI
                      Reviewer AAAI 2023 - Representation Learning for Responsible Human-
                      Centric AI, ICML 2021 - Computational Approaches to Mental Health
                      Member Applied Algebraic Topology Research Network.
Awards                Queen’s General Bursary                                                  2022-23
                      Vector Institute Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence                  2021-22
                      Pradeep Khare Memorial Scholarship                                       2021-22
Test Scores           GRE General Test - 317/340
                      Quant-163, Verbal-154, AWA-4.0
                      TOEFL iBT - 106/120
                      Reading-28, Listening-29, Speaking-23, Writing-26
Open Source           Google Code In 2019 Mentor
                      Tensorflow: Mentored and assisted high school students in developing projects
                      using tf, tf.js and tflite. Example tasks include reviewing pull requests to ten-
                      sorflow/tfds repository
                      Code Contributions (more on GitHub)
                      torchsde, torchdyn
Talks and Tutorials   Is India prepared for emerging technologies?                            Feb 2020
                      Panel discussion at IEEE CALCON 2020
                      Point Target Analysis and Detection of Moving Targets in SAR Images
                                                                                            June 2019
                      Talk on my research internship project at Indian Space Research Organisation.
                      Satellite Imagery meets Computer Vision                                 Oct 2020
                      IEM Kolkata