Soham Poddar
Research Scientist at NielsenIQ
Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
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Top SchoolSoham Poddar is a research scientist specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and computational social science with nine years of experience and a PhD from IIT Kharagpur. His work spans energy-efficient LLM optimization for sustainability, legal-document summarization, and an influential thesis on COVID-19’s impact on vaccine opinions, with publications at NAACL, SIGIR, and ICWSM. Awarded the PMRF fellowship in 2021, he blends rigorous academic research with practical model-building—most recently developing custom LLMs at NielsenIQ after an R&D stint at HPE. Based in Kharagpur, he brings a researcher’s depth to production challenges and an uncommon focus on the environmental footprint of large models. Outside work he’s an avid bass guitarist and motorsport enthusiast, reflecting a creative, risk-taking mindset that informs his problem-solving.
9 years of coding experience
High School, Science, High School, Science at Auxilium Convent SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Indian Institute of Engineering Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
English, Bengali, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
scrape8
twitter7
twitter-api6
twint5
python5
api5
scraper5
elasticsearch4
kibana4
wandb2
pytorch1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sohampoddar26/covid-vax-stance
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
CNeRG-IITKgp/CNeRG-IITKgp.github.io
Mar 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:40 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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