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About

Malay Bhattacharyya is currently an Associate Professor of Machine Intelligence Unit, the Coordinator of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and an Associate Member of Technology Innovation Hub on Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Data Curation at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He is a certified Design Thinker from MIT Sloan School of Management and holds a doctorate in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute. He has a couple of decades of teaching and research experience including short academic visits at Stanford University, University of Ljubljana, and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He served in the Assessment & Search Committee, ACM Publications Board and The Lancet COVID-19 Commission: India Task Force during 2023-24 and 2021-22, respectively.

His current research interests encompass Computation for Social Good and Computational Healthcare. He has published research studies in high-impact journals like Cell, Nature Medicine, The Lancet Microbe, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, and top-notch conferences like IEEE ICDE, ACM CHI, ACM CSCW. His research has received generous funding from DRDO, Google, DST and MeitY, Government of India, totaling about INR 4 Crores (~ USD 0.5 Million). He is a recipient of the Impact Scholars Award from Google (2021), Young Engineer Award from INAE (2018), Young Engineers Award from IEI (2016-17), BIRD Award from Bioclues Organization (2015), Young Scientist Award from ISCA (2013-14), and won several best paper and best reviewer awards. He became a Fellow of climaTRACES Lab, University of Cambridge in 2024, an INAE Young Associate in 2018, and a Sir Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellow in 2015-16. He advises NGOs like MDCRC, mentors Startups like Assessli, and reinforces Talent Development to companies like Tata Steel.

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Career

• January 2023 - To date

  Associate Professor

  Machine Intelligence Unit

  ISI, Kolkata

  Courses: Computational Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics - Fall 2024; Introduction to Computing - Fall 2024; Introduction to Programming and Data Structures - Fall 2023; Computing Lab - Fall 2023; Management of Data - Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024; Operating Systems - Spring 2023; Database Management Systems - Spring 2023, Spring 2024.

• September 2024 - To date

  Coordinator

  Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  ISI, Kolkata

  Courses: Data Analytics in Python - December 2024.

• September 2021 - To date

  Associate Member

  Technology Innovation Hub on Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Data Curation

  ISI, Kolkata

  Courses: Design Thinking - Fall 2024.

• July 2019 - September 2024

  Associate Member

  Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

  ISI, Kolkata

  Courses: Data Analytics in Python - May 2024, July 2024; Business Analytics - 2022; Machine Learning for Practitioners - Fall 2019.

• July 2018 - December 2022

  Assistant Professor

  Machine Intelligence Unit

  ISI, Kolkata

  Courses: Operating Systems - Spring 2022; Database Management Systems - Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022; Fundamentals of Database Systems - Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2022; Computational Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics - Fall 2021; Introduction to Programming - Fall 2020; Computing Lab - Fall 2020, Fall 2021; Data and File Structures Lab - Fall 2018, Fall 2019.

• May 2014 - July 2018

  Assistant Professor

  Department of Information Technology

  IIEST, Shibpur

  Courses: Modelling and Simulation Lab - Spring 2017, Spring 2018; Bioinformatics - Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017; Software Engineering - Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2017; Information and Coding Theory - Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017; Information and Systems Security - Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2018.

• February 2014 - March 2014

  Visiting Researcher

  Indo-French Centre for Applied Mathematics

  IISc, Bangalore

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Education

• March 2018 - June 2018

  Executive Education

  Mastering Design Thinking

  MIT Sloan School of Management

  Project Title: KeepSaker - Keeping alive and sharing the best memories of your life.

• August 2007 - April 2014

  Doctor of Philosophy

  Computer Science

  ISI, Kolkata

  Dissertation Title: Mining Co-expression Networks: Applications to MicroRNA Regulation and Disease Analysis.

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Awards & Honors

• April 2024 - To date

  Fellow

  climaTRACES Lab

  University of Cambridge

• April 2023 - November 2024

  Member

  Assessment & Search Committee

  ACM Publications Board

• January 2021 - October 2022

  Member

  India Task Force

  The Lancet COVID-19 Commission

• 2021

  Impact Scholars Award

  AI for Social Good

  Google

• 2018

  Young Engineer Award

  Computer Science

  Indian National Academy of Engineering

• 2015 - 2016

  Sir Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellow

  Electronics & IT

  Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology

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Projects

• June 2023 - May 2025

  Co-Principal Investigator

  Prediction of Walking Imbalance and Performance Improvement of Designed Prosthetic Lower Limb

  Institute of Data Engineering, Analytics and Science Foundation (IDEAS)

  Project Cost: INR 30.56 Lakhs (~ USD 37.23K).

• December 2021 - December 2024

  Co-Principal Investigator

  Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Cryptanalysis

  Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)

  Project Cost: INR 192.137 Lakhs (~ USD 234.09K).

• February 2022 - February 2023

  Principal Investigator

  AI-guided systematic intervention and prediction of progression in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

  Google

  Project Cost: USD 10K (~ INR 7.275 Lakhs).

• July 2020 - July 2021

  Principal Investigator

  Network Based Prediction of COVID-19 Spread in India under Migration

  Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India

  Project Cost: INR 5.5 Lakhs (~ USD 6.7K).

• May 2016 - April 2021

  Principal Investigator

  SocialGood, Big Data Analysis and Bioinformatics

  Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India

  Project Cost: INR 37 Lakhs (~ USD 45.08K).

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Publications

A Global Metagenomic Map of Urban Microbiomes and Antimicrobial Resistance Cell, 184(13):3376-3393, 2021

Cartography of opportunistic pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in a tertiary hospital environment Nature Medicine, 26(6):941-951, 2020

COVID-19 drug practices threaten antimicrobial resistance evolution and transmission in hospitals The Lancet Microbe, 2(4):e135-e136, 2021

Prevalence of long COVID symptoms in Haryana, India: a cross-sectional follow-up study The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, 25:100395, 2024

The importance of investing in data, models, experiments, team science, and public trust to help policymakers prepare for the next pandemic PLOS Global Public Health, 3(11):e0002601, 2023

A Review of Judgment Analysis Algorithms for Crowdsourced Opinions IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 32(7):1234-1248, 2020

Judgment Analysis in a Streaming Setting Incurring Logarithmic Space of the Annotators ICPR, pp. 1-15, 2024

Leveraging Synergy to Design Neural Differential Distinguishers for Lightweight Block Ciphers IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 9, In press, 2025

Robust and Explainable Stage Prediction in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy AAAI Fall Symposium, pp. 1-4, 2024