Saugata Purkayastha - Zuse School ELIZA

Master’s Student

I am an ELIZA master’s student at the department of Language Science and Technology, Universität des Saarlandes. Previously, I received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Gauhati University, Assam, India under the supervision of Prof. H. K. Saikia. After serving at various institutions in teaching and research positions for several years in India , I finally joined Universität des Saarlandes for my Master’s studies. I am presently interested in understanding the interpretability of language and vision models by exploring the mathematical framework of these models. Prior to that, I studied the convergence properties of an optimiser based on Heun’s method with my collaborator Ms. Sukannya Purkayastha which appeared at the 12th annual NeurIPS workshop on Optimization for machine learning, 2020. In 2017, I was selected for a fellowship offered by Indian Academy of Sciences to pursue research work at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. In 2024, I have been selected for the Research Oriented Master’s Scholarship offered by the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELIZA).

I am an ELIZA master’s student at the department of Language Science and Technology, Universität des Saarlandes. Previously, I received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Gauhati University, Assam, India under the supervision of Prof. H. K. Saikia. After serving at various institutions in teaching and research positions for several years in India , I finally joined Universität des Saarlandes for my Master’s studies. I am presently interested in understanding the interpretability of language and vision models by exploring the mathematical framework of these models. Prior to that, I studied the convergence properties of an optimiser based on Heun’s method with my collaborator Ms. Sukannya Purkayastha which appeared at the 12th annual NeurIPS workshop on Optimization for machine learning, 2020. In 2017, I was selected for a fellowship offered by Indian Academy of Sciences to pursue research work at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. In 2024, I have been selected for the Research Oriented Master’s Scholarship offered by the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELIZA).