Research Grant from Snap Inc., NY, USA, Oct 2024 - July 2025; Best Master's Project Award, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India, 2016; Certificate of Merit, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India, 2013; Vidyasagar Scholarship, Government of West Bengal, India, 2009; Invited Talk: HiGraphics Workshop on Synthesizing 3D Human Interactions in Multi-entity Environment, 2024.
Research Experience
AI Researcher at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2021 - Present; Research Intern at Snap Research, New York City, NY, USA, June 2024 - September 2024; Research Intern at Google Research, Mountain View, CA, USA, June 2023 - September 2023; Research Assistant at German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany, May 2019 - July 2021; Teaching Assistant (Image Processing and Computer Vision) at Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany, April 2020 - September 2020; Visiting Scholar at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, February 2018 - July 2018; Research Associate at Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, March 2017 - November 2017.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science: 2021 - Present, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, Dissertation: 'Synthesizing 3D Human Interactions in Multi-Entity Environments' (ongoing), Advisors: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Slusallek, Prof. Dr. Christian Theobalt; M.Sc. in Visual Computing: 2018 - 2021, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany, Thesis: 'Synthesizing Compositional Animations from Textual Descriptions Using an RNN-based Hierarchical Two-Stream Network', Advisor: Prof. Dr. Philipp Slusallek; M.Sc. in Computer Science: 2014 - 2016, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India, Thesis: 'Real-Time Sign Language Processing System using Perceptrons', Advisor: Prof. Dr. Asoke Nath; B.Sc. in Computer Science: 2011 - 2014, St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, India.
Background
Research interests include developing neural network architectures for 3D human motion synthesis and multi-agent interaction modeling. Her research focuses on designing advanced deep learning models, including transformers, diffusion models, and large visual-language models, for multimodal generation involving text, audio, and 3D data. She is passionate about computer vision and generative AI.
Miscellany
When not coding or building models, she often explores the latest trends in AI, makes delicious desserts, or travels with her husband to new countries (check out her Flickr gallery).