Teaching

I first provide the list of courses where I played the role of a Teaching Assistant at IIT Kharagpur, India and Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Next, I describe my mentorship experience over 1 B.Tech and 3 M.Tech Thesis at IIT Kharagpur. I also covered one invited talk and few tutorials.

Tutorials/Invited Talks

  • January 2026: Invited talk titled “Building a Career in AI for Industry and Academia - Current and Future trends” organized by the Google Developers Group on Campus Kalyani Government Engineering College - Kalyani, India Link to website, Link to slides
  • December 2025: Invited talk titled “Vocabulary Adaptation Strategies for Finetuning Medical Language Models - Towards Reliable Medical Summarization” delivered at the Breakfast Talk series of Microsoft Research India Bangalore, India Link to slides
  • March 2025: Conference tutorial titled “Building Trustworthy AI Models for Medicine: From Theory to Applications” delivered at the 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2025) Tutorial website, Link to slides
  • December 2024: Delivered a guest lecture titled “Foundation Models for Medical Text” as part of the course “AI Foundation Models in Biomedicine” of Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Link to slides
  • May - June 2024: “Research Paper Writing” - 7 classes conducted at IIT Kharagpur Link to slides

Coursework

IIT Kharagpur

  • Programming and Data Structure Lab (Spring 2018)

  • Department Website Team (Autumn 2018 to Spring 2020)

  • Information Retrieval (Autumn 2020)

  • Computing Lab - 1 (Autumn 2023)

Leibniz University Hannover, Germany

  • Natural Language Processing (Winter 2021)
  • Foundations of Information Retrieval (Summer 2022, 2023)

Kalyani Government Engineering College, West Bengal, India

  • Co-founded the college programming club, KeyGEnCoders in March 2015, which is still actively running.
  • Programming with C and Datastructures and Algorithms - Performed the role of CodeChef Campus Chapter Representative of Kalyani Government Engineering College from 2015 to 2017

Mentoring

M.Tech Thesis:

  • Multidimensional Retrieval and Ranking Model for Clinical Trials Search by Nikhil Agrawal (2019)

  • Query-Focused Summarization in Medical Domain: A Comparative Study by Gunjan Balde (2020),

  • Understanding Medical Knowledge Graph for NLP Applications by Sourav Saha (2021)

B.Tech Thesis

  • Improving Question Generation of Questions Answering Based Summary Evaluation Metric by Sudip Chakraborty (2022)