Shib Dasgupta is an Applied Scientist and PhD candidate at UMass Amherst specializing in set-based representation learning for NLP and information retrieval, with a focus on efficient, interpretable aggregation methods. Over eight years of research and industry experience, he has interned or collaborated with teams at Google Research, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Adobe, and AWS, translating academic ideas into applied systems. His work bridges rigorous machine learning theory and practical deployment, informed by mentors like Andrew McCallum, Partha Talukdar, and Steffen Rendle. He brings a rare combination of deep academic training from IISc and UMass and hands-on product exposure across cloud and research labs, currently based in California. An active researcher, his publications and citations reflect a steady impact on representation learning techniques that improve how complex information is summarized and retrieved.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree System Science and Automation, Master's degree System Science and Automation at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical Engineering at Jadavpur University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Shib Dasgupta - Applied Scientist II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)