Prateek Chanda
Graduate Research Student
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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Top SchoolPrateek Chanda is a research-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience bridging academic machine learning and production-grade research software. Currently a PhD student at IIT Bombay, he previously built research tooling and prototypes as a Research Software Engineer at Microsoft Research and contributed to large open-source science projects including SunPy and SUSI.AI. His work spans metric learning, biomedical NLP, sensor-based behavioral modeling and automation of build/dependency tooling, combining strong algorithmic foundations with practical engineering. He has a track record mentoring major open-source programs (Google Summer of Code/Code-in) and delivering measurable improvements such as higher clustering convergence and an 83% accuracy solar-flare detection feature. Based in Kolkata, he brings a rare blend of interdisciplinary collaboration with research groups at Stanford, NASA-affiliated teams and industry labs, and often focuses on making research reproducible and deployable.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology BombayBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, First Class with Distinction Honors, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, First Class with Distinction Honors at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), ShibpurHigh School, Physical Sciences, 1st, High School, Physical Sciences, 1st at South Point High School, Kolkata
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (59)
development-tools10
uwp-apps9
winrt9
wpf8
react8
web-components8
component-library8
windows-app-sdk8
lit8
uwp8
adaptive-ui8
experiences8
csharp8
javascript7
windows7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
prateekchandan/spoj
Nov 2014 - Sep 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 12 pushes in 3 years 10 months
prateekchandan/Remote-Desktop-Connection
Oct 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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