Saptarshi Pyne
Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Science Education & Research (IISER), Kolkata
Mohanpur, West Bengal, India
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Top SchoolSaptarshi Pyne is an assistant professor and researcher specializing in design and analysis of algorithms for learning causal relationships from massive, high-dimensional datasets, with applications spanning genomics, neuroscience, weather forecasting, and high-frequency finance. With a PhD from IIT Guwahati and a decade of experience across academia and industry, he blends rigorous probabilistic and causal reasoning with practical exposure from a stint in software development. He held postdoctoral research at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery and faculty roles at IIT Jodhpur and now IISER Kolkata, building scalable methods for probabilistic graphical models. Known for tackling problems involving thousands of variables, he focuses on methods that make causal discovery tractable at scale—an often-overlooked but critical bottleneck in translating data into actionable scientific insight.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.77 / 10, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.77 / 10 at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiKrishnanagar Collegiate SchoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.65 / 10, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, 8.65 / 10 at Future Institute Of Engineering and Management
English, Hindi, Bengali, German
Github Skills (8)
bayesian-network3
r-package3
gene-expression3
bioinformatics2
computational-biology2
bayesian2
inference2
network1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aaiitg-grp/TGS-tcbb
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes in 8 months
sap01/sap01.github.io
Mar 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years
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