Somak Aditya
Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
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Top SchoolSomak Aditya is an Assistant Professor at IIT Kharagpur with 11 years of experience bridging machine learning, probabilistic logical reasoning, and knowledge representation to tackle real-world vision and language problems. Trained at IISc and ASU (PhD, 4.0 GPA) and with postdoctoral and industry stints at Microsoft Research and Adobe Research, he blends rigorous academic research with production-minded insight. His work—published across top AI, NLP, and vision venues—focuses on marrying probabilistic graphical models, statistical relational learning, and deep learning to extract deep semantics for tasks like multimodal question answering. Beyond papers, he organizes major workshops, serves as area chair and senior PC for leading conferences, and has contributed to public discussion on AI safety and prompting techniques. Notably, he pursues cross-disciplinary projects that inject structured knowledge into generative and reasoning systems, reflecting a rare combination of theoretical depth and applied experimentation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Arizona State UniversityME, Computer Sc & Engg, 7.3/8.0, ME, Computer Sc & Engg, 7.3/8.0 at Indian Institute of ScienceBE, Computer Sc & Engg, BE, Computer Sc & Engg at Jadavpur University
English, Bengali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
psl9
science8
ranking8
computer-science7
react7
logic7
optimization7
reasoning6
parsing6
semantics6
notebook6
azure-machine-learning6
nlp5
computer-vision5
sdk5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
adityaSomak/academic-kickstart
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
📝 Easily create a beautiful website using Academic, Hugo, and Netlify
Contributions:181 pushes in 5 years 5 months
hugojamstacknetlifyhugo-themestatic-site-generator
adityaSomak/ImageRiddleSolving
Jun 2016 - Jun 2018
Solving Image Riddles
Contributions:27 commits, 1 push in 2 years
solvingvisionpsloptimizationcomputer-vision
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