About Me

I hail from a small town- Raiganj, north of West Bengal, India. After my matriculation in 2015, I went to Kota for a couple of years to get coached for JEE (Advanced). Post that, I joined Jadavpur University in the Department of Electrical Engineering (2017-2021). I was extremely passionate about coaching students for JEE, and that's what I took up after my graduation for a couple of years (2021-2023), worked with Unacademy for a brief period, and together with a couple of trained faculties, planned our coaching institute Bodhiclasses. Parallelly, I was preparing for GATE CS and exploring the idea of pursuing a career in research. In Fall 2023, I secured admission in the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, IIT Mandi for pursuing direct Ph.D., supervised by Dr. Siddharth Panwar, and had been on a wonderful journey ever since.

My pastimes include movies (mostly of dense philosophical tone), reading books (mostly non-fiction), playing Tabla, writing poems, occasionally reflecting about varied perspectives of life and our place in this Universe, and yes, I play a lot of Chess, albeit without any knowledge of theory whatsoever. 

Education

Ph.D. (Intelligent Systems) : 2023 - Present

Institute - Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

B.E. (Electrical Engineering) : 2017-2021

Institute - Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Courses Taken:

EE511: Computer Vision

EE516: Biomedical Systems

EE531: Estimation & Detection Theory

CS669: Pattern Recognition

IK502: Introduction to Biosignals

IK510: Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Contributions

• 2026

1. [January] Femtomodels for EEG Artifact Removal: A Parameter Lower-Bound for Generalisable EOG Denoising, paper accepted at ICASSP 2026 as an Oral Presentation, the most prestigious flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE ICASSP 2026)! [Paper] [Code]

2. [June] Robust multi-centre interictal EEG biomarker for distinguishing epilepsy from mimickers, paper accepted at the Journal of Neural Engineering! [Paper] [Code]

3. [June] Balanced Predictive Attractor Networks: A Compact Excitatory–Inhibitory Testbed for Anytime and Sequential Inference, paper accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems! [Paper] [Code]

• 2025

1. [June] MicroWaveNet: Lightweight CBAM-Augmented Wavelet-Attentive Networks for Robust EEG Denoising, paper accepted at the 35th IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (IEEE MLSP 2025)! [Paper] [Code] [Video]

2. [December] Evaluating the clinical readiness of artificial intelligence in EEG-Based epilepsy diagnosis, paper accepted at the Journal of Neural Engineering! [Paper]

• 2021

1. Got introduced to the field of Machine Learning and contributed (mildly) to a research on classifying EMG signals with SVM and ANN. Dimension reduction was done through PCA and LDA and the results were compared. [Paper]

Awards, Fellowships and Grants:

• Awards:

The Secret of Work Scholarship: Finalist amongst the top 150 candidates chosen for scholarship amongst 47000+ candidates nationwide      who wrote the test and 200 people who qualified for the interview. The subject of the evaluation was on Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda.

• Fellowships:

HTRA Fellowship: The Half-Time Research Assistantship (HTRA) fellowship is a financial support scheme for full-time postgraduate (M.S. and Ph.D.) students at institutions like IITs and NITs.

• Grants:

Travel Grant for IEEE MLSP 2025: Institute travel grant of ₹ 1,00,000 that includes travel and accommodation expenses.

Competitive Examinations Qualified:

GATE DA 2025

GATE CS 2023

JEE (ADVANCED) 2017

BITSAT 2017

WBJEE 2017