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Hi, I’m Swastik, but you’ll often find me as justanotherlad on the Internet. I have been working as the Search Engineer at Wolfram Research since 2021 where my work is focused on improving Search Relevance, Ranking and building transformer based models for Search for the documentation of Mathematica(software) and other wolfram org. websites in collaboration with the Web and core ML team; prior to this I was a Summer Researcher followed by an Intern at Wolfram.
I also worked briefly with IBM Research as a Project Assistant in Applied Cryptography, on Differential Privacy and Multi-Party Computation.

I have completed my undergraduation in Computer Science, with major in Information Technology.
My primary interests are Information Retrieval, Conversational systems, Applied Cryptography, Discrete Mathematics and Music-making.
I’m also trying to explore other areas of computer science and cyber-security.
I enjoy solving problems, and in my free time I have had tried my hands at competitive programming and sometimes even various CTF (capture the flag) information security challenges.
When I’m not fidgeting with my laptop, I like to spend my time doing music, playing the guitar, sitar, or dreaming about having an alternate career as a singer/songwriter (I happen to be in a Calcutta-based indie band that got featured in the Rolling Stone India magazine here).



     

Experiences/ Achievements

history
  • IBM Research, Applied Cryptography Project Assistant 2021
  • Wolfram Research Inc., Intern following Summer Research 2020
  • Honorable Mention at ACM ICPC Asia Amritapuri Regionals, 2019-‘20
  • R.C. Bose Research Intern for Cryptology and Security, 2019 : Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (powered by Microsoft Research India)



     

My Projects

 Some of my works over the years
  • BlindVisAidGPT

    Developed an interactive aid for blind people using Microsoft’s Visual-ChatGPT framework as a part of India’s first GenAI hackathon sponsored by HasGeek; received Special Mention (Organiser’s Pick)

  • Cowin Bot

    Created a bot to automate the process of slot-booking for Covid vaccines during the time of intense rush; helped people in local community to book slots with ease.

  • Lockdown Comic Survey

    A short comic-survey with animations, cool frontend and a simple backend on how people spent their time during the quarantine of the greatest world disaster of 21st century.



       

Competitive Programming

profiles



If you’re interested in hiring me, here’s my résumé.