Achintya Kundu

Ph.D. Student   ( 2009, August - till date )
Dept. of Computer Science and Automation(CSA)
Indian Institute of Science(IISc), Bangalore


  Email:     achintya AT csa.iisc.ernet.in
  Phone:   +91 934 365 3615

Publications || Education || Achievements || fAcEbOoK || NonAcademics

Academic Activities

  • Teaching Assistant, August-December 2011.
  • Member, Department Curriculum Committee (DCC), CSA Department, IISc, July 2010-June 2011.
  • Teaching Assistant, August-December 2010.
  • Summer Intern, Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore, May-July 2010.
    • Worked in the field of computational advertising.

Achievements

  • Won Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges (KSC) Honorable Mention Award (US $2000) for 2011-12.
  • Won Best Perspective Seminar Award for 2010-11 in the Dept. of CSA, IISc.
  • Received Senate Commendation from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for outstanding academic performance.
  • Recipient of Prof. I.S.N. Murthy Gold Medal for Best Master of Engineering student in the Dept. of ECE, IISc.
  • Achieved 6th rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2006.
  • Ranked 17th (Engineering) and 281st (Medical) in West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination, 2002.

Publications

Papers in Refereed Machine Learning Conferences

  • A. Kundu , V. Tankasali, C. Bhattacharyya and A. Ben-Tal.
    Efficient algorithms for learning Kernels from multiple Similarity matrices with general convex loss functions.
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2010.

Papers in Refereed Signal Processing Conferences

  • A. Kundu , S. Chatterjee, A.S. Murthy and T.V. Srinivas.
    GMM Based Bayesian Approach to Speech Enhancement in Signal / Transform Domain.
    International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2008.

  • A. Kundu , S. Chatterjee and T.V. Srinivas.
    Speech Enhancement Using Intra-frame Dependency in DCT Domain.
    European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2008.

  • A. Kundu , S. Chatterjee and T.V. Srinivas.
    Subspace Based Speech Enhancement Using Gaussian Mixture Model.
    InterSpeech (ICSLP), 2008.

Education

  • Ph.D. ( Machine Learning )   in Progress   [ CGPA:   7.5 / 8 ]
    •           Department of Computer Science & Automation (CSA), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

  • M.E. ( Signal Processing )     [ CGPA:   7.8 / 8 ]
    •           Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

  • B.E. ( Electronics & Tele-communication )     [ CGPA:   9.4 / 10 ]
    •           Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering (ETCE), Jadavpur University, Kolkata.  

Research Lab

Research Areas

  • Machine Learning
  • Convex Optimization
  • Computational Biology
  • Signal Processing

Graduate Courses

  • Machine Learning:   Probabilistic Models for Learning,   Neural Networks,   Statistical Learning Theory

  • Optimization:   Convex Optimization,   Computational Methods of Optimization

  • Mathematics:   Matrix Theory,   Real Analysis,   Functional Analysis,   Probability Theory

  • Statistics:   Random Processes,   Detection & Estimation Theory,   Time Series Analysis

  • Signal Processing:   Advanced Digital Signal Processing,   Time-Frequency Analysis