Arghya Roy Chaudhuri

Contact:
172, Doctor’s lane
Post Office: Chinsurah Mob: (+91) 8777787522
District: Hooghly Email: arghya.iisc@gmail.com
West Bengal, 712101

Summary
Industry Experience: Over two years as a Software Engineer (2011-2013) and extensive experience as
an Applied Scientist (2013-2014, since 2019).

Education: Master of Engineering (ME) in System Science and Automation from IISc Bangalore (2009-
2011); Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay (2014-2019), with a focus on
Multi-Armed Bandits.
Research Excellence: Authored papers published in prestigious conferences such as AAAI, UAI,
ICML, etc., showcasing a strong research background in machine learning and reinforcement learn-
ing.

Industry Projects
Prediction and Analysis of Ad Metrics. I’m working on creating a predictive analytics tool focused on
advertising performance metrics. It’s still under development and is designed to forecast future trends
while identifying and analyzing the reasons behind any differences between predicted and actual figures,
taking into account both demand and supply factors.

Quad Prediction (current project at MS IDC). Microsoft Lens has become widely popular as a doc-
ument scanning application that exclusively utilizes in-device resources and refrains from sharing data
with external servers. Presently, my focus is on predicting the quadrilateral that appears on the screen,
aiding users in comprehending the machine’s interpretation of the document boundary within the image.
This task is particularly challenging due to its real-time processing of video frames, and the complexity
introduced by the document, background, and varying lighting conditions. Moreover, it necessitates an
efficient implementation for resource-frugal execution on handheld mobile devices.

Low-cost Summarisation (at MS IDC). OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 embodies formidable capabilities in AI/ML,
adept at swiftly and accurately summarizing text. However, the inference cost associated with this feature
escalates with the volume of documents, alongside constraints on input and output tokens. Although
a strategy of summarizing summaries exists, it often compromises performance. Our endeavor delves
into methodologies aimed at mitigating these concerns - cost and token limits - while maintaining good
summarization quality within a given cost.

Trial to Paid Conversion prediction (at MS IDC). In this project the objective was to identify the poten-
tial paid customers for Office 365. This reached a logical conclusion for experiment-expectation. This was
an important milestone to evangelize with the respective product teams.
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Predicting Concession-rate (at Amazon India). As a member of the India Machine Learning team, I
developed a predictive model that assesses the likelihood of encountering concessions for each offer. The
term "concession" here includes defects, returns, refunds, and similar scenarios. The model exhibits a
broad range of applications, such as product recommendations and search functionalities. Its implemen-
tation has contributed substantially to enhancing Amazon’s business metrics.

Social trend-based product recommendation using Knowledge Graph (at Social Audience Pvt. Ltd.).
While working at Social Audience Pvt. Ltd., I developed a tool designed to extract trends from social
networks. The tool mapped these trends to the product database, providing recommendations for creating
targeted advertisements. A crucial component of this tool involved constructing a Knowledge Graph and
leveraging it for real-time inference.

Applied Research Experience in RL

Single Track Train Scheduling (STTS) using Reinforcement Learning. The challenge of optimal train
scheduling is acknowledged as an NP-hard problem. Nonetheless, through the application of Reinforce-
ment Learning (RL), highly efficient solutions can be achieved, demonstrating scalability across extensive
rail networks. My involvement in addressing this project took place during my research internship at the
Decision Sciences and Algorithms Lab, TCS (Mumbai), in the summer of 2017.

Publications
1. Arghya Roy Chaudhuri, Pratik Jawanpuria, and Bamdev Mishra. Protobandit: Efficient prototype
selection via multi-armed bandits. In Asian Conference on Machine Learning, ACML 2022, volume 189
of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pages 169–184. PMLR, 2022.
2. Arghya Roy Chaudhuri and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan. Regret minimisation in multi-armed ban-
dits using bounded arm memory. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence (AAAI 2020). AAAI Press, 2020.
3. Arghya Roy Chaudhuri and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan. PAC identification of many good arms in
stochastic multi-armed bandits. In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Machine Learning
(ICML 2019), volume 97 of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pages 991–1000. PMLR, 2019.
4. Arghya Roy Chaudhuri and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan. Quantile-regret minimisation in infinitely
many-armed bandits. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelli-
gence (UAI 2018), pages 425–434. AUAI Press, 2018.
5. Arghya Roy Chaudhuri and Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan. Pac identification of a bandit arm relative
to a reward quantile. In Proceedings of the Thirty-first AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI
2017), pages 1777–1783. AAAI Press, 2017.
6. Arghya Roy Chaudhuri and M. Narasimha Murty. On the relation between K-means and PLSA.
In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2012), pages 2298–2301.
IEEE Computer Society, 2012.

Employment
Microsoft IDC
May 2021-Current.
Designation: Sr. Applied Scientist.
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Amazon Development Centre India

September 2019-Current.
Designation: Applied Data Scientist II.
Social Audience Pvt. Ltd.
Oct, 2013 to June, 2014.
Designation: Lead Software Engineer.
Project: Trend Detection and Tracking in Social Media using Machine Learning.
Juniper Networks.
July, 2012 to Oct, 2013.
Designation: Software Engineer 2.
Team: Management Verification and Infrastructure.
Brocade Communication Systems Inc.
July, 2011 to July, 2012.
Designation: Software Engineer 2.
Team: Linux Infrastructure team.

Internship
Research-Intern at Decision Sciences and Algorithms Lab, TCS (Mumbai) during 2-May-2017 to 14-
July-2017.

Technical Skill
1. Knowledge and working experience in Machine Learning.
2. Problem solving, and designing scalable algorithm.
3. Python, PySpark.

Education
Period: July, 2014 - 2021.
Degree: Ph.D. at Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering.
Guide: Prof. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan.
CPI: 8.36/10.
Area of research: Multi-Armed Bandits.
Institute: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Period: 2009 - 2011.
Acquired Degree: M. E. in System Science & Automation
Grade: 5.6/8 + A, First Class.
Institute: Indian Institute of Science.
Period: 2005 - 2009.
Acquired Degree: B. Tech. in Computer Science & Automation.
Grade: 7.99/10.
Institute: Heritage Institute of Technology.
University: West Bengal University of Technology.
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Achievements
1. Recipient of Google’s Student Travel Grant to present at ICML 2019.

2. Recipient of Google’s Student Travel Grant to present at AAAI 2017.

3. Received Honorable Mention at Research and Innovation Symposium for Computer scientists (RISC),
organized by Dept. of CSE, IIT Bombay in 2016 and 2017.
4. AIR 71 in GATE 2009, in Computer Science and Information Technology.

Theses
Ph. D. Thesis: Quantile-Based Reduction of Large Bandit Instances.
Guide: Prof. Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan (Dept. of CSE, IIT Bombay).

M. E. Thesis: Generalization and Performance Optimization for Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms.
Year: 2011.
Guide: Prof. M. Narasimha Murty (Dept. of CSA, IISc).

B. Tech. Thesis: Target Specification of Micro-RNA on mRNA by Machine Learning Approach.

Year: 2009.
Guide: Prof. Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Machine Intelligence Unit, ISI Kolkata).