Bhaskar Jyoti Das
Adjunct Professor
- Teaching
About
My primary passion is grooming young minds and making them realize their own possibilities. I enjoy building competency (knowledge, process, mindset). I joined PES as Adjunct Faculty and Part-time Ph.D. Scholar in May 2017. I have been primarily a teacher and researcher. I am focused on all aspects of AI/ML and its applications. As a research guide, I participate actively instead of providing just executive guidance. Starting 2017, I have so far guided around 100 UG students and 3 PG students for their final year thesis. I have worked for 26+ years first in government R&D and then in industry in various roles in all parts of the product life cycle i.e. consulting, professional services, and engineering. I have worked both in system software and application software in diverse domains i.e. networking, finance and automobile. My management experience has been mostly in product engineering and change management in engineering organizations. Curiosity, constant learning, and embracing changes are my key values. What I carry forward into the current academic setup are my management training, deep and broad exposure to industry (services and products), and ability to spot as well as mentor high-performers and lead from the front. Through the years, I developed a keen interest in the macro patterns instead of the corporate ladder and willingly experimented with roles and domains to satisfy my curiosity.
Adjunct Professor ( Full time), PES University (RR Campus), Dept of CSE in AI & ML, 2023 - Till date
Visiting Faculty (CSE) and PhD Scholar, PES University, Dept of CSE @ RR Campus, 2017 - 2023
Consulting roles at various places, Self employed, 2011 - 2016
Associate Vice President and Head of Engineering, Logix Microsystems, 2010 - 2011
Director, Engineering, Yahoo!, 2008 - 2010
Senior Engineering Manager, Sun Microsystems, 2001 - 2008
Program Manager, Verifone Inc., 1998 - 2001
Competency Manager -Virtual Banking, NCR Corporation, 1996 - 1998
Technology Consultant, HCL Hewlett Packard, 1994 - 1996
Network Manager, Anandbazar Group of Publications ( ABP Ltd), 1992 - 1994
System Analyst, Tata Consultancy Services, 1989 - 1992
Scientist /Engineer, Space Application Center, ISRO, 1985 - 1989
I am trained in management and have various useful professional qualifications such as Advanced Project and Program Management (SCPM) from Stanford University, PMP, Six Sigma Black Belt, Certified Lean Expert, ScrumMaster, SNIA certified Storage Professional etc.
In my corporate life, I have built high performance product engineering teams from scratch more than once delivering outcome rather than output.
In my current life as Educator and Mentor of young minds in the period (2018-2023), I have published more than 65 research papers out of projects in which I have actively contributed.
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Social Network Analytics
Network Analysis and Mining
Algorithms for Intelligent Web and Information Retrieval
Data Analytics
Graph Theory and Applications
Software Engineering
Mathematics for Machine Learning
Currently serving as Adjunct Professor (full time) in CSE-AIML Dept.
B Tech and M Tech Thesis guide
Syllabus update
Classical ML, Deep Learning
Graph Machine Learning
Interdisciplinary Machine learning (computational social science, computational biology, cognitive computing etc)
Multi-modal (image and text) Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing With Deep Learning
Machine Learning in Information Retrieval
Multi Contextual Machine Learning with sparse labeled data etc.
I am focused on research efforts with young, enthusiastic and curious minds. I guide publication worthy research projects in various areas and applications of AI and ML.
ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1225-9354
Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=d6gtOwwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works
Education
Bachelors of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering ( BETCE), First Class with Honors, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 1985
M Tech Computer Science Engineering, First class with distinction, Visvesvaraya Technological University, 2016
Executive General Management Program ( EGMP), IIM Bengaluru, 2007
Advanced Management Program ( AMP), IIM Bengaluru, ESADE Barcelona, 2009
Leadership and Strategic Management, Cornell University, 2010