Resume
General Information
| Full Name | Somnath Banerjee |
| Languages | Bengali, Hindi, English |
Education
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2021 - Till PhD (Computer science and engineering)
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - Explainable AI
- Large Language Model
- Natural Language Processing
- Graph learning
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2016 - 2018 Master of Technology (Computer science and engineering)
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad - Random Forest boosted CNN- An empirical technique for plant classification
Experience as Research Scientist
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2023 - Till Software engineer technical leader
Cisco Systems - Large Language Model Development
- Network Document Summarization System
- Custom Chatbot Development
- Fine-Tuning LLMs
- Cloud Infrastructure for Model Deployment
- End-to-End NLP Pipelines
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2020 - 2023 Software development engineer expert
Fujitsu - Document Classification System
- Custom NER Models
- Fine-Tuned Transformer Models
Experience as Consultant
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2023 - Till Software engineer technical leader
Cisco Systems - Transfering MNIS to ServiceNOW [ITBM, Portal]
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2020 - 2023 Software development engineer expert
Fujitsu - Leading Team for Telco Project [ITSM, ITOM, ITBM, Portal]
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2016 - 2020 Senior software consultant
Cognizant - Leading Team for Mining Project [ITSM, HAM, SAM, Portal]
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2014 - 2016 Software engineer
IBM - Active member for Banking Project [ITSM]
Awards and grants
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2024 Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant (MAPG)
- Received the prestigious Microsoft Academic Partnership Grant (MAPG) 2024 in collaboration with Prof. Animesh Mukherjee from IIT Kharagpur. Our proposal SafeInfer is among just six selected across India.
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2024 PaliGemma Academic Program
- Received the prestigious PaliGemma Academic Program GCP Credit Award from Google.
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2019 University Gold Medal
- Academic distinction in masters program with gold medal.
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2009 First in Quiz Competition in ETV Bangla(In state WB)
- Secured first place in the quiz competition organized by ETV Bangla among all schools in the state.