Scholar
Soham Basu
Google Scholar ID: VFrBx88AAAAJ
University of Freiburg, Germany
Citations & Impact
Citations
18
H-index
1
i10-index
1
Publications
4
Co-authors
6
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- [{'Position': 'Research Assistant (HIWI) - Working Student', 'Institution': 'Machine Learning Lab - University of Freiburg [Prof. Dr. Frank Hutter]', 'Duration': 'Since October 2023', 'Responsibilities': ['Working on Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) for Deep Learning', 'Contributing to Neural Pipeline Search (NePS)', 'Developing hpoglue and hposuite', 'Contributed to CARP-S']}, {'Position': 'Researcher', 'Advisor': 'Prof. (Dr.) Anindya Sen', 'Duration': 'August 2020 - September 2022', 'Location': 'Kolkata, India', 'Projects': [{'Title': 'Bone Fracture Detection and Classification', 'Duration': 'Since 2022', 'Description': 'Assisting in the development of deep learning-based algorithms to detect & classify bone joints and fractures from X-Ray and CT scans.'}, {'Title': 'Diabetic Retinopathy Feature Extraction – Blood Vessels, Optic Disc, and Exudates', 'Duration': '2020 - 2021', 'Description': 'Extracted optic disc, blood vessels, and exudates from DR-affected fundus images using morphological transformations, k-means clustering, edge detection, and contouring. Achieved state-of-the-art accuracy of 95.93% on the DRIVE dataset for Blood Vessel Segmentation.'}, {'Title': 'Binary Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy using Deep CNN', 'Duration': '2020 - 2021', 'Description': 'Built a Deep Convolutional Neural Network with 14 Conv2D layers and 2 Fully Connected Layers (using TensorFlow Keras). Trained it on the publicly available IDRiD Dataset for Binary Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy. Test Accuracy: 75.73%.'}]}, {'Position': 'Research Intern', 'Institution': 'Deepwrex Technologies', 'Duration': 'November 2020 - December 2021', 'Location': 'Kolkata, India', 'Responsibilities': 'Focused on research in the Computer Vision domain – working on the implementation of research papers in Image Denoising and Super-resolution.'}, {'Position': 'Head of Technical Operations', 'Institution': 'Photoscenethesis Media Group Kolkata', 'Duration': 'April 2019 - October 2020', 'Location': 'Kolkata, India', 'Responsibilities': ['Creation of online marketing strategies, handling Facebook Ads Manager', 'Frontend Web Development, Server management, and Backend integrations using PHP, MySQL on Apache HTTP Server']}, {'Position': 'Summer Intern', 'Institution': 'Powergrid Corporation of India Ltd.', 'Duration': 'June 2019', 'Location': 'Kolkata, India', 'Responsibilities': ["Learned about the segments of Powergrid, their functioning, working of POWERTEL'S Region Control Centers (RTACC), and transmission of data through OPGW wires", 'Familiarized with telecom technologies and services viz. OPGW, CDNs, VPN, Peering, OTT, etc.', 'Researched on the latest ventures - 100G fibers and MPLS networks']}, {'Position': 'Chatbot Developer Intern', 'Institution': 'Kolkata Bloggers', 'Duration': 'April 2017 - May 2018', 'Location': 'Kolkata, India', 'Responsibilities': 'Created basic, professional chatbots using Dialogflow'}]
Background
- Deep Learning, AutoML, and Computer Vision enthusiast. Currently pursuing a Master's degree in Embedded Systems Engineering at the University of Freiburg, specializing in Artificial Intelligence. Strong passion for AutoML, particularly efficient Hyperparameter Optimization for Deep Learning.
