Summary
Kishalay Das is a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University specializing in graph representation learning and Graph Neural Networks, with eight years of experience bridging academic research and applied software development. His PhD work at IIT Kharagpur focused on AI methods for 3D material and crystal graph generation and property prediction, building on an M.Tech from IISc and hands-on systems experience from ISRO and industry roles. He maintains an active research and engineering portfolio—publishing, developing code on GitHub, and creating educational content that has attracted 20K+ YouTube subscribers—demonstrating an unusual blend of deep technical expertise and public-facing science communication. Comfortable moving between low-level system engineering and cutting-edge ML, he has practical mission-critical experience from satellite support at ISRO and production software delivery at TCS/Accenture. Kishalay’s profile stands out for combining rigorous PhD-level research in molecular and crystal graphs with a talent for distilling complex career and exam guidance for a broad audience.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.Tech, Computer Science and Automation, M.Tech, Computer Science and Automation at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
Schooling, science, Schooling, science at Balichak B.H.Institution
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine learning at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Bengali, Hindi, English