Education

Doctor of Philosophy

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University, Canada.
Focused area of research: broadly in deep learning and computer vision.
Supervisor: Prof. Ali Etemad

Master of Applied Science

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen's University, Canada.
Thesis Title: Self-supervised ECG Representation Learning for Affective Computing. [thesis] [presentation]
Supervisor: Prof. Ali Etemad

Bachelor of Technology

Dept. of Electrical Engineering at the West Bengal University of Technology, India.
Rank 4 of 150 in graduating class of Electrical department.

Experience

Queen's University, Kingston, Canada

Research Assistant

Currently, I am working as a Research Assistant in Ingenuity Labs Research Institute and Ambient Intelligence and Interactive Machines (Aiim) Lab at Queen's with Prof. Etemad, and my core areas of research are Deep Learning, Self-supervised Learning, Unsupervised Clustering, Computer Vision, Biosignal Analysis, Affective Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, among others. Please check the research tab for more information.

Teaching Assistant

• Working with Prof. Ali Etemad as a TA for ELEC 472 (Artificial Intelligence) in Winter 2020.

• Worked with Prof. Thomas Dean as a TA for APSC-143 (Introduction to Computer Programming for Engineers) in Fall 2019.

Course Developer

• Worked with Prof. Shideh Kabiri Ameri in developing ELEC-252 (Electronics I) in Fall 2020.

• Worked with Prof. Ali Etemad to design ELEC-472 course (Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Systems) in summer 2019.

Mentorship

• I mentored final year undergrad student, Rachel Phinnemore for her CISC/COGS-499 project, with Prof. Ali Etemad and Prof. Nicholas Graham, 2019-2020.

Infosys Ltd., Bangalore, India

Sr. System Engineer
I worked as a Techno-functional Consultant on Oracle ERP system, specifically in finance, supply chain management, and project management module. Some of my duties include: optimization of workbench performance, designing multipurpose templates, processing of financial data, development and analysis of custom financial reports among others.
Related tools: Oracle Cloud Financials, Oracle Reports, ADF, OAF, SQL, PLSQL, Oracle E-Biz Suite.

Tech Mahindra Ltd., Hyderabad, India

Software Engineer
I worked as a Technical Consultant on Oracle ERP system. I was responsible for the maintenance and enhancement of the finance module. Some of my duties include implementations of oracle forms and reports from scratch, creation of custom tables, database maintenance, job scheduling, troubleshooting, root cause analysis among others.
Related tools: Oracle D2K Forms, Reports, and XML Publisher, Oracle E-Biz suite, Oracle Workflow, SQL, PLSQL, Oracle Database.