Summary
Deep Chakraborty is a machine learning researcher and final-year Ph.D. candidate in computer science with 11 years of experience spanning computer vision, speech, and embedded robotics. Based in Boston, he has contributed to self-supervised learning and geologic image analysis for Mars rover imagery, unsupervised motion segmentation, and scene understanding at Apple, with multiple peer-reviewed publications at CVPR/ECCV and INTERSPEECH. He combines strong academic training (MS/PhD, UMass Amherst) with industry experience in production-focused teams (Seagate, Philips) and hands-on systems knowledge in storage, embedded vision, and real-time robotics. Notably, his work blends unsupervised representation learning with practical engineering—improving object detection via Unsupervised Hard Negative Mining and applying deep saliency for thermal pedestrian detection.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.9/10.0, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.9/10.0 at Manipal Institute of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.9/4.0 at University of Massachusetts Amherst
English, Hindi, Bengali