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- Mar 2024: Delivered an online invited talk on Financial Natural Language Processing at Yobe State University (Nigeria). It was supported by Google ExploreCSR (Google Research grant).
- Aug 2023: Delivered a online invited talk on Financial Natural Language Processing at the Faculty Development Program organized by Brainware University, India
- Jan 2023: Delivered an online invited talk on Data Visualization at the Annual Refresher Programme being organized by Haldia Institute of Technology, India
- Dec 2021: Delivered an online invited talk at the Faculty Development Workshop organized by XIM, University, India (materials)
- Jun 2020 - Nov 2024: Disseminated knowledge at various internal forums of Fidelity Investments (Collaboration Innovation & Experimentation Track, Data Science Bootcamps, Research Seminars (India, US), BA&R Competency group, Writer’s Premier League, etc.)
- Feb 2020 - Mar 2020: I volunteered for FidCares (A CSR initiative by Fidelity Investments).
- Jul 2016 - Jan 2017: Trained several corporates of one of the World’s Largest Consulting Firm on Text Analytics and Machine Learning using R in association with Fn MathLogic Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd.
- Sep 2015 - Jan 2016: Taught Big Data Analytics to corporates in association with NIVT, Kolkata (a unit of Novel R&D India Pvt. Ltd.).
- Aug 2014 - Jun 2015: Taught Computer Applications to underprivileged students in association with the Rotaract Club of Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata.
- Feb 2014 - Aug 2014: Secretary at the ACM student chapter of Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata (HIT-K)
- Aug 2014: Delivered a talk on R programming at a workshop organised by HIT-K ACM student chapter (materials)
- Mentored: Several undergraduate and postgraduate students
- Reviewed: Research Papers (FinNLP@LREC-COLING-2024, FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL 2023, FinArg@NTCIR-17 2023, ICON-2023, EMNLP-2023, FinNLP@EMNLP-2022, Social Network Analysis and Mining - Springer Nature, Discover Computing (Information Retrieval Journal) Springer Nature, etc.), Book Proposals (Manning Publications)
Awards
- IndoML 2024: Received Travel Grant (Dec 2024)
- CIKM 2024: Received SIGIR Travel Grant covering conference registration charges (Oct 2024)
- CODS-COMAD 2024: Travel Grant (Jan 2024)
- CODS-COMAD 2023: Honourable Mention at the Young Researchers’ Symposium Track (Jan 2023)
- Fidelity Investments: Excellence in Action (Team Award, Q2 & Q4 2020), You’ve Earned It (Individual and Team Award, 2020 & 2021) , Shout-out (2020), Patent Filing Award (2021), Eureka Enablers (Eureka Innovation Awards 2023), On the Spot Award (India) (2023), Patent Grant Award (2024)
- ENERGIZE 2024: Played Harmonica and secured the 2nd position in Embassy Office Parks’ Got Talent out of around 50 contestants at EGL, Bangalore (Mar 2024)
- IndiaHikes: Green Getter (Jan 2021), Trekker for Life (Oct 2024)
- Times Internet (Times Business Solutions): Rockstar Award (March 2018)
- Department of Science and Technology Govt. of West Bengal, West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology: Best Presentation Award (22nd West Bengal State Science and Technology Congress, Mar 2015)
Certifications
Yearwise Updates
2024
- Nov 2024: My journey through music and fitness, along with my passion for trekking, was featured in the November 2024 edition of Cafe Chronicles, Fidelity's internal magazine.
- Nov 2024: Played Harmonica with Fidelity's in-house band during their Thanksgiving (Ufest-2024) show.
- Oct 2024: Received Travel Grant to attend IndoML 2024
- Oct 2024: Completed Bali pass trek (Altitude: 16,207 ft), visited Yamunotri Dham & received Trekker for Life Award from IndiaHikes
- Sep 2024: Received patent grant award from Fidelity Investments
- Aug 2024: Received SIGIR Travel Grant to present paper at CIKM 2024
- Aug 2024: Served as a panelist at the launch event of Fidelity Writer's Premier League
- Jul 2024: My paper, "Demystifying Financial Texts Using Natural Language Processing" got accepted at CIKM-2024 (pre-print)
- Jul 2024: Our US patent (No. 12033162), "Automated analysis of customer interaction text to generate customer intent information and hierarchy of customer issues" got granted (link)
- Jun 2024: Completed 5 years working at Fidelity Investments
- Jun 2024: I am now a Kaggle Dataset Expert (link)
- May 2024: Presented our paper, "IndicFinNLP: Financial Natural Language Processing for Indian Languages" (paper) at LREC-COLING 2024 (online)
- May 2024: Learnt swimming (basic level) from Nisha Millets Swimming Academy, Bengaluru
- May 2024: Ranked 26th in 10 km male category at Uru Night Run (Marathon) 2024. Complete it in 48 minutes.
- Apr 2024: Visited Kalimpong, Darjeeling, Mirik, and Mayapur ISKCON Temple
- Mar 2024: Played harmonica and secured the 2nd position out of around 50 contestants in "Embassy Office Parks' Got Talent" (ENERGIZE-2024) at EGL, Bangalore.
- Mar 2024: Our team, LIPI ranked 1st in the impact length prediction (French) ML-ESG-3 sub-task of FinNLP-KDF@LREC-COLING 2024.
- Mar 2024: Delivered an online invited talk on Financial Natural Language Processing at Yobe State University (Nigeria). It was supported by Google ExploreCSR (Google Research grant).
- Mar 2024: We have got a paper accepted in the Short Papers Track of The 2024 ACM Web Conference (theWebConf 2024, formerly known as International World Wide Web Conference, abbreviated as WWW), which will be held in Singapore, during 13-17 May, 2024. This is my first A* publication. The paper is: "Generator-Guided Crowd Reaction Assessment". (pre-print)
- Feb 2024: Visited IISc Open Day 2024 & ISKCON Bengaluru.
- Feb 2024: We have got a paper accepted in the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) which will be held in Torino, Italy, during 20-25 May, 2024. The paper is: "IndicFinNLP: Financial Natural Language Processing for Indian Languages". (paper)
- Feb 2024: Played harmonica at "Embassy Office Parks' Got Talent" event and got selected for the finals.
- Jan 2024: Received Eureka Enablers (Eureka Innovation Awards 2023) from Fidelity Investments
- Jan 2024: Received Student Travel Grant to attended CODS-COMAD 2024. Got mentored by Dr. Asuthosh Modi (IIT-K), Dr. Manas Gaur (UMBC), and Dr. Partha Talukdar (Google / IISc) during the PhD clinic sessions held in conjuction with CODS COMAD 2024. Student Travel Grant acceptance rate: 86/258. PhD clinic acceptance rate: 34/73.
- Jan 2024: Witnessed the first sunshine of the year from Uttari Betta (Huthridurga), Karnataka.
2023
- Dec 2023: Presented 2 papers at FIRE. Visited Goa
- Dec 2023: Visited Mangalore, Sringeri, Udupi, and the northern part of Kerela
- Nov 2023: Attended Sidhant's wedding, explored Pune, Lonavala (Camped near Pawna Lake), Lohagad and Visapur Fort
- Nov 2023: I got selected to attend the ACM India PhD Clinic (colocated with Cods-Comad 2024)
- Nov 2023: I completed Everest Base Camp with Go-Kyo Trek
- Nov 2023: Our poster, "The Effect of Tweets on the Traded Volume of Crypto-Coins" got accepted for publication in 2023 IEEE BigData
- Nov 2023: Our paper, "The Mask One At a Time Framework for Detecting the Relationship between Financial Entities" got accepted for publication in FIRE-2023
- Nov 2023: Our paper, "Financial Argument Analysis in Bengali" got accepted for publication in FIRE-2023
- Oct 2023: Our paper, "A low resource framework for Multi-lingual ESG Impact Type Identification" got accepted for publication in FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL 2023. We achieved the 1st rank in Japanese & Chinese sub-tasks
- Oct 2023: Our paper, "LIPI at the NTCIR-17 FinArg-1 Task: Using Pre-trained Language Models for Comprehending Financial Arguments" got accepted for publication in NTCIR-17
- Sep 2023: Ran 11.09 km in 59.26 minutes
- Aug 2023: My Google Scholar profile reached 100 citations. Miles to go!
- Aug 2023: Our paper, Recent Trends in Financial Natural Language Processing Research got accepted for publication in Science Talks (Elsevier Journal)
- Aug 2023: Received two "You've Earned It Team (India)" awards from Fidelity Investments
- Aug 2023: Completed Makalidurga Trek, Karnataka, India
- Aug 2023: Reviewed research paper for EMNLP-2023
- Aug 2023: Delivered an invited talk on "Financial Natural Language Processing" at the Faculty Development Progam organized by Brainware University
- Aug 2023: Our team, LIPI ranked second in the Financial Argument Relation Identification (English) sub-task of the 17th NTCIR!
- Aug 2023: Attended team dinner at Bangalore.
- Aug 2023: Our paper, Learning to Rank Hypernyms of Financial Terms Using Semantic Textual Similarity a got accepted for publication in Springer Nature Computer Science Journal
- Jul 2023: Visited Besant Nagar Beach & Guindy Snake park in Chennai, India
- Jul 2023: Presented our work on Voice of Customers at FidVantage-2023, Chennai, India.
- Jun 2023: Our paper, "Detecting Issues Related to Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance using SEC-BERT" got accepted at the 4th International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA-2023), Jaipur, India (acceptance rate: 15%).
- Jun 2023: Completed 7 years of professional experience. This includes 4 years at Fidelity.
- Jun 2023: Attended team lunch at Bangalore.
- May 2023: Received On the Spot (India) award from Fidelity Investments.
- Apr 2023: Travelled to Bankura and attended Devanjan's wedding.
- Apr 2023: Successfully cleared PhD coursework exams at Jadavpur University.
- Mar 2023: Attended a satsang at Bangalore.
- Feb 2023: Visited Jamsedpur (attended a friend's wedding), Barrackpore (lunch with cousins), Shifted to Bangalore, Played harmonica at an event organised by Fidelity Investments.
- Jan 2023: Attended Saraswati Puja, Sur (Harmonica group) annual picnic and recorded a music video with Devanjan!
- Jan 2023: Delivered an invited talk on Data Visualization at the Annual Refresher Programme being organized by Haldia Institute of Technology, India
- Jan 2023: Travelled to Bangalore. Met school friends & colleagues.
- Jan 2023: Met school & college buddies, trekmates and eminent personalities in the field of NLP & Data science at Bombay.
- Jan 2023: Presented two research papers at CODS-COMAD 2023, IIT-Bombay, India. Received honourable mention in the YRS track. Explored Bombay.
- Jan 2023: Promoted to the post of Senior Data Scientist at Fidelity Investments.
2022
- Dec 2022: Caught up with HIT-K buddies & attended JC's wedding.
- Dec 2022: Attending EMNLP-2022 virtually.
- Nov 2022: Visited Andaman Islands and did scuba diving, snorkeling and kayaking there.
- Nov 2022: Our papers, "FLUEnT: Financial Language Understandability Enhancement Toolkit" and "Using Natural Language Processing to Enhance Understandability of Financial Texts" got accepted at 6th Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data (10th ACM IKDD CODS and 28th COMAD), Mumbai, India. (pre-print) (pre-print)
- Oct 2022: Celebrated Durga Puja, Diwali and Jagadhatri puja. Played harmonica at a cultural programme.
- Oct 2022: Our paper, "Evaluating Impact of Social Media Posts by Executives on Stock Prices" got accepted at the 14th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE-2022), Kolkata, India. (pre-print)
- Oct 2022: Our paper, "LIPI at the FinNLP-2022 ERAI Task: Ensembling Sentence Transformers for Assessing Maximum Possible Profit and Loss from Online Financial Posts" got accepted at Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (collocated with EMNLP 2022), Abu Dhabi, UAE.
- Sep 2022: We are hiring. Our culture. Application link.
- Aug 2022: Received a "Thank You" note from Fidelity for contributing towards learning & development of the associates.
- Aug 2022: My two cents on how AI can be leveraged for simplifying Financial Knowledge - Analytics Insight
- Jul 2022: Our paper, Dichotomic Pattern Mining Integrated With Constraint Reasoning for Digital Behavior Analysis got published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Journal.
- Jun 2022: Our paper, Ranking Environment, Social And Governance Related Concepts And Assessing Sustainability Aspect Of Financial Texts got accepted at the Fourth workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (collocated with IJCAI-ECAI 2022), Vienna, Austria
- Jun 2022: Virtually presenting 2 research papers ( paper1, paper2) at the FNP worksop of LREC 2022, Marseille. France
- Jun 2022: Presenting our research paper at NTCIR-16, Tokyo, Japan (online)
- May 2022: Played harmonica at our Rabindra Jayanti Celebration (YouTube link)
- May 2022: Trekked to Goechala (Altitude: 15,100 ft)
- May 2022: Our paper, "FinRAD: Financial Readability Assessment Dataset - 13,000+ Definitions of Financial Terms for Measuring Readability" got accepted at Financial Narrative Processing workshop (colocated with LREC-2022)
- Apr 2022: Played harmonica at the 'Surer Jhorna' event organized by Reeds & Rhythm (Harmonica Group), Birla Academy, Kolkata (YouTube link)
- Apr 2022: Our paper, "Detecting context-based in-claim numerals in Financial Earnings Conference Calls" got accepted for publication in International Journal of Information Technology (Springer)
- Apr 2022: Our paper, "FiNCAT-2: An enhanced Financial Numeral Claim Analysis Tool" got accepted for publication in Software Impacts Journal (Elsevier)
- Apr 2022: New achivement: Ran 5.04 km in 22 mins 02 secs
- Mar 2022: Celebrated Holi, visited hadicraft and book fairs, attended social functions (wedding, music concert), jammed with friends (link)
- Mar 2022: Our paper FiNCAT: Financial Numeral Claim Analysis Tool" got accepted at FinWeb (collocated with ACM-The Web Conference-2022) (pre-print) (code) (demo)
- Feb 2022: Filed our US patent, "Systems and Methods for Measuring Impact of Online Search Queries on User Actions", Application Number: 17/668976
2021
- Dec 2021: I presented at the Faculty Development Workshop organized by XIM, University, India (materials)
- Dec 2021: I am a top 6% Chinese learner on Duolingo for the year 2021
- Dec 2021: Received "You've Earned It Individual" Award from Fidelity for collaborating with teammates which resulted in 5 research publications in the year 2021
- Nov 2021: Our demonstration paper, "FinRead: : A Transfer Learning Based Tool to Assess Readability of Definitions of Financial Terms" got accepted at ICON-2021
- Nov 2021: Filed our US patent, "Automated Analysis of Customer Interaction Text to Generate Customer Intent Information and Hierarchy of Customer Issues", Application Number: 17/500614
- Nov 2021: Presented our paper, "Using Natural Language Processing to Understand Reasons and Motivators Behind Customer Calls in Financial Domain" at ICCMDE [pre-print]
- Nov 2021: Completed certification on Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization (Coursera)
- Oct 2021: Visited Bankura, Biharinath and nearby places in West Bengal, India
- Sep 2021: Achieved my dream of running 5 km within 25 minutes
- Sep 2021: Presented our paper, "Data Driven Content Creation using Statistical and Natural Language Processing Techniques for Financial Domain" at The 3rd Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2021) [pre-print] [video]
- Sep 2021: Jammed with school friends and released a video where I played Cajon.
- Sep 2021: Completed certification on Neural Networks and Deep Learning (Coursera)
- Aug 2021: Presented our research paper "Term Expansion and FinBERT fine-tuning for Hypernym and Synonym Ranking of Financial Terms" at FinNLP@IJCAI-2021 [video]
- Aug 2021: Received "You've Earned It Individual" Award from Fidelity for demonstrating thought leadership in terms of learning, self-development, publications and patent applications
- Aug 2021: Attended KDD 2021
- Jul 2021: Our research paper "Term Expansion and FinBERT fine-tuning for Hypernym and Synonym Ranking of Financial Terms" got accepted at FinNLP'21 (FinSim-3) (collocated with IJCAI-21) [pre-print]
- May 2021: Presented our research paper Using Transformer Based Ensemble Learning to Classify Scientific Articles at PAKDD'21-SDPRA
- May 2021: Released the first video prepared by 3 Musketeers on the eve of Rabindra Jayanti 2021
- Apr 2021: Started to enhance my culinary skills
- Apr 2021: Re-started playing soccer.
- Mar 2021: Started learning how to play Cajon
- Feb 2021: Paper accepted at SDPRA 2021 (workshop of PAKDD 2021)
- Feb 2021: Completed certification on Business English Level 10 (Highest Level) (Learnship GlobalEnglish)
- Feb 2021: Received CKSI Excellence In Action - Q4 2020 (Team Award) from Fidelity for mining reasons behind high call volumes using NLP
- Jan 2021: Played Tabla at an online cultural event organised by Personal Investment wing of Fidelity
- Jan 2021: Trekked to Sandakphu & Phalut (India/Nepal). Received Green Getter certificate from IndiaHikes for demonstrating exemplary service towards keeping the fragile mountains clean and green
- Jan 2021: Completed the course Introduction to Research from NPTEL. Badge: Topper (Top 1%, Elite + Silver)
- Jan 2021: Got promoted to the post of Data Scientist at Fidelity
- Jan 2021: Completed certification on Business English Level 9 (Learnship GlobalEnglish)
- Jan 2021: Re-started taking lessons on Harmonica
2020