Summary
Saikat Dutta is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University with nine years of industry and research experience bridging software engineering and machine learning. He completed a PhD at UIUC after roles as a graduate researcher and postdoc at top institutions, and has interned at AWS and Microsoft where he worked on ML framework testing and regression-testing frameworks. Earlier software-engineering roles at Microsoft honed his production-quality SDET and development skills, while an internship at ISI Kolkata contributed to published work on software verification. Saikat blends rigorous academic research with practical systems experience, making him adept at translating theoretical ideas into reliable, testable software. He is based in the United States and brings a track record of shipping tools and publishing research that improve software quality and ML system reliability. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent movement between industry and academia, giving him a rare perspective on deployable research.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Computer Science and Engineering at Jadavpur University
+10 degree Science, +10 degree Science at Holy Home, Serampore
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Hindi, Bengali