Hi! I'm a PhD student of Computer Science at Indian Statistical Institute. I am fortunate to be advised by Sourav Chakraborty and Kuldeep Meel. I am a part of Meelgroup.
My current research interest lies in the intersection of distribution testing and formal verification. I look into applying theory of distribution testing towards building robust verifiers for testing real-world distributions, like, samplers or generative models. Broadly, I am interested in problems that lie in the intersection of theory and practice.
My research has been recognized and supported by the Google PhD Fellowship (2023–2027).
CV Distribution TestingNews
- [2026] "Instance Dependent Testing of Samplers using Interval Conditioning" accepted at AAAI 2026 (arXiv, code).
- [2025] Won Best Student Paper Award at KR 2025 for "Efficient Volume Computation for SMT Formulas".
- [2025] "Assessing the Quality of Binomial Samplers: A Statistical Distance Framework" accepted at CAV 2025.
- [2025] New preprint: "Zero-Shot Attribution for Large Language Models: A Distribution Testing Approach" (arXiv).
- [2025] New preprint: "Quantifying the Inexactness of Poisson Distributions in Standard Libraries" (pdf).
Publications
Thesis
Awards & Fellowships
- Google PhD Fellowship Award 2023 — supported 2023–2027.
- Gold Medal in Masters Programme (2020–22) from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
- Best Student Paper Award at KR 2025.
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant — Computing Lab (2022, 2023), Probability and Stochastic Processes — Indian Statistical Institute.
- Teaching Assistant — ACM Summer School on Algorithms for Data Science (2023) at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.
Beyond Research
- Apart from research, I do music. I have been part of Calcutta-based music group SixteenBy19. Some of our unpublished tracks are on SoundCloud.
- I was fortunate to be part of an independent film Pathshala | The Inception of Pursuit (2021).
- I was part of the Sir C V Raman Centre for Physics and Music at Jadavpur University, studying the interdependence and influence of music in human cognition.