Saugata Purkayastha

I am an ELIZA Master’s student in the Department of Language Science and Technology at Universität des Saarlandes. I previously earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Gauhati University, Assam, India, under the supervision of Prof. H. K. Saikia. Before joining Universität des Saarlandes, I held teaching and research positions at various institutions in India.

My current research interests lie in exploring the interpretability of language and vision models through their underlying mathematical frameworks. Prior to this, I studied the convergence properties of an optimizer based on Heun’s method, in collaboration with Ms. Sukannya Purkayastha. This work was presented at the 12th NeurIPS Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (2020).

In 2017, I was awarded a fellowship by the Indian Academy of Sciences to conduct research at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. In 2024, I was selected for the Research-Oriented Master’s Scholarship by the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELIZA).