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Education, research experience, technical skills, teaching, and awards.
Contact Information
| Name | Pratyay Dutta |
| Professional Title | Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science |
| pdutt005@ucr.edu | |
| Location | Riverside, California CA 92507 |
Professional Summary
Ph.D. candidate at UC Riverside working on Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Physics-based Modeling under Dr. Bir Bhanu.
Experience
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2023 - present Riverside, California, USA
Research Assistant
University of California, Riverside
Advisor: Dr. Bir Bhanu
- Anisotropic heat diffusion algorithms for Vision Transformer architectures on event-based data
- Virtual Cloth Try-off using Stable Diffusion and Flux-Kontext
- Image inpainting with diffusion models using SAM, DINO, and ControlNet
- Latent diffusion-guided feature inpainting for occluded person re-identification
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2022 - 2022 Halifax, Canada
Research Intern
Dalhousie University
Advisor: Dr. Yannick Marchand
- Built predictive modeling pipeline on Lichess chess data for educational use
- Built RL agent using PPO that beats amateur players under a certain FIDE rating
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2021 - 2021 Virginia, USA
Research Intern
Virginia Commonwealth University
Advisor: Dr. Preetam Ghosh
- Optimized multi-vaccine distribution strategy using linear optimization and clustering
- Published papers at IEEE BIBM 2021 and IEEE/ACM TCBB 2022
Education
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2023 - present Riverside, California, USA
Ph.D.
University of California, Riverside
Computer Science
- Advisor: Dr. Bir Bhanu
- Focus: Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Physics-based Modeling
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2019 - 2023 Kolkata, India
Bachelor of Engineering
Jadavpur University
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
- MITACS Fellowship recipient (2020)
Awards
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2023 Dean's Fellowship
University of California, Riverside
Awarded for outstanding research acumen. Acceptance rate: 15%.
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2020 MITACS Fellowship
MITACS Canada
Funded summer research internship at Dalhousie University, Canada. Acceptance rate: 18%.
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2019 Bishop Thoburn Award
Calcutta Boys' School
Student of the Year for outstanding academics, sports, and extra-curricular acumen. 1 in 120 students.