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Data Scientist (KTP Associate), University of Hull

Dr. Joyjit Chatterjee is presently a Data Scientist (KTP Research Associate) at the University of Hull and Reckitt, UK - a leading MNC behind major health, hygiene and nutrition products - like Dettol, Lysol, Strepsils etc.). In his role, Joyjit is developing specialised AI models for optimisation and development of products in the consumer goods industry. Joyjit was named in the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list (Manufacturing and Industry) in 2022 for his impactful work on developing AI products that can help bolster manufacturing and energy processes.

He completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Hull, UK, wherein, his research dealt explainable and intelligent decision support in operations & maintenance of wind turbines. Joyjit received the Green Talents Award from German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for his PhD research and its high-potential in facilitating sustainable development (amongst 25 outstanding scientists from across the globe). Joyjit also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Research Training (Hull, UK), Professional Certificate in AI (Oxford, UK), and Bachelors in Electronics & Communication Engg. (Gold Medalist-Amity University, India). He has published an array of papers in Computer Science & Engineering (including in leading A*/A ranked AI conferences/workshops such as NeurIPS, KDD etc., and reputed journals, being a top-cited author). As a global researcher, he has co-authored papers & filed patents with reputed academicians from across Europe, North America and Asia, and delivered talks at leading research institutions globally. Joyjit was also a Visiting Researcher at Tamkang University, Taiwan on a government funded research project. Joyjit regularly serves on the programme committee/as reviewer for leading international conferences/workshops (such as ICLR, NeurIPS etc.) and high-impact journals.

Joyjit is the recipient of several other honours & awards including PhD Scholarship (Hull, UK), Employability Award for Postgraduate Researchers (Hull, UK), funding/grants from reputed international organisations such as IEEE, Microsoft Research etc., Scholarship for the Global Impact Challenge 2020 (Nudge, Netherlands), Young Researcher Award (IEEE UK & Ireland Section), Gold Medal and Scholarship (Amity University, India), Alumni Achiever Award (Amity University, India) etc. Joyjit's research has received significant press/media exposure, such as in the Times of India. His research interests span Deep Learning, Natural Language Generation, Data Analytics, Knowledge Graphs, Causal Inference and Time-Series Analysis.

Experience

  • –present
    Data Scientist (KTP Associate), University of Hull

Education

  • 2021 
    University of Hull, PhD Computer Science
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    University of Hull, PG Diploma in Research Training
  • 2018 
    Amity University, B.Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering

Publications

  • 2022
    All publications, https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=kjWYrm4AAAAJ&hl=en

Grants and Contracts

  • 2021
    Awarded full funding from the Doctoral College, University of Hull, UK for participation in the virtual CIFAR Deep Learning-Reinforcement Learning Summer School (DLRL) in July 2021.
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    Awarded full funding (approx. 1,000 Euros including travel and accommodation) from the EU COST Action Research Network towards participation in the Language In The Human-Machine Era (LITHME) Training School in Ávila, Spain in October 2021.
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  • 2020
    Awarded full funding (PhD. presenter award) from AI for Good Foundation at the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)’s Fragile Earth: Data Science for a Sustainable Planet Workshop (FEED Workshop, San Diego, California, USA in August 2020.
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    Awarded a scholarship of 4,500 Euros for participation in the Nudge Global Impact Challenge 2020 an 8-month online personality development programme by Nudge Netherlands and its partner sponsors.
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    Awarded early career researcher partial grant towards registration for the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), July 2020, Glasgow, UK by IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
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  • 2019
    Funding from University of Hull, UK of 400 GBP to participate in Power Available Hackathon organized by ORE Catapult and Scottish Power Renewables in Glasgow, UK in November 2019.
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  • 2019
    Awarded travel grant of 1,000 USD sponsored by Microsoft Research and Deep Mind for presenting research at the “Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning” workshop at 33rd International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019) in Vancouver, Canada.
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  • 2019
    Funding from University of Hull, UK of 1,300 GBP to present research at Northern Lights Deep Learning Workshop (NLDL), Norway in January 2019.
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  • 2018
    Funding of 150 GBP from Aura Innovation Centre, UK to present research at WindEurope Offshore, Denmark in November 2018.
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  • 2018
    Fully funded PhD. Scholarship totaling 48,000 GBP in Computer Science at University of Hull, United Kingdom (2018-2021) for the project “Autonomous Prediction and Scheduling of Operations and Maintenance for Offshore Wind Farms”, directly after undergrad in 2018.
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    Awarded scholarship of 1,800 USD by Ministry of Education, Taiwan for pursuing research at Tamkang University, Taiwan as a part of the TEEP@India Program from January-March 2018.
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    Studied B. Tech Electronics and Communication Engineering on Merit Scholarship (6000 GBP) for the entire duration of course (2014-2018) at Amity University, Noida, India.
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Professional Memberships

  •  Member: IET UK (MIET), IEEE USA (MIEEE), Machine Intelligence Labs (USA), Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Associate Member (AMIE) - Institution of Engineers (India).
  • Associate Member: The British Computer Society (AMBCS).
  • Served as an Executive Committee Member of the Multimedia Communications Technical Professional Network of IET UK from 2016-2019.
  • Junior Member: Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK.
  • Life Member: Indian Science Congress Association, Govt. of India.
  • Life Member: Indian Science Congress Association, Govt. of India.

Honours

- Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe 2022 (Manufacturing and Industry) - Green Talents Award (German Federal Ministry of Education & Research) - Top-Cited Author Recognition (Wiley) - Young Researcher Award (IEEE UK & Ireland Section and Amity University, London) - Alumni Achiever Award for Outstanding Contribution in Education (Amity University, India)