Punyajoy Saha
Lead Engineer at Samsung R&D Institute India
Bihar, India
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Top SchoolPunyajoy Saha is a Lead Engineer at Samsung Research Institute, Bangalore with nine years of experience at the intersection of natural language processing, machine learning, and social science. He completed a PhD at IIT Kharagpur focused on hate speech detection in online social networks and has built human-in-the-loop counterspeech generation systems during research internships at the University of Hamburg. His work blends rigorous academic research with practical engineering—developing backend systems, classifiers that incorporate user context, and AI-driven moderation tools. Based in Bihar, India, he brings hands-on expertise from international research stints including Georgia Tech and applied projects spanning OCR, chatbots, and forum moderation. Notably, he pairs deep technical skill with social-aware ML research, studying hate speech dynamics rather than only model performance.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Dual degree(B.tech and M.tech), Computer Science, 8.9, Dual degree(B.tech and M.tech), Computer Science, 8.9 at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), ShibpurKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 9.3, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, 9.3 at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali
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Github Skills (37)
pytorch10
python10
classification10
machine-learning10
classifier10
lstm10
deep-learning10
speech10
explore10
natural-language-processing10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
multilingual9
transformers9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hate-alert/hate-alert.github.io
May 2020 - Jul 2023
Contributions:68 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
hate-alert/HateXplain
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
Can we use explanations to improve hate speech models? Our paper accepted at AAAI 2021 tries to explore that question.
Contributions:56 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 1 year 7 months
aaaibert-fine-tuningexplainabilityattention-lstmhate
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