About Me

NLP Researcher

Technical Skills: PyTorch, HuggingFace

Contact: debajyoti22 [at] iiserb [dot] ac [dot] in, debajyotimaz [at] gmail [dot] com

Debajyoti Mazumder is a Ph.D. research scholar in the Data Science and Engineering (DSE) Department at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal. He is working under the guidance of Dr. Jasabanta Patro. His research interests lie in various subfields of Natural Language Processing (NLP).

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Bio

Debajyoti Mazumder is an NLP researcher with a passion for advancing the understanding of language through computational methods. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. at IISER Bhopal, his work focuses on multilinguality, fine-tuning pretrained models, and in-context learning. With a strong foundation in mathematics and data science, he combines theoretical rigor with practical applications to tackle complex problems in NLP.

Interests

• Multilinguality
• Fine-tuning pretrained models
• In-context learning
• Instruction tuning
• Multiplex networks in graph-ML

Education

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Ph.D., Data Science and Engineering

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal (IISERB), India (Pursuing)

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M.Sc., Mathematics

University of Delhi, India (2020)

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B.Sc., Mathematics Honours

University of Delhi, India (2018)

Publications

Debajyoti Mazumder

News

• Mar 2025: Selected for LiveRAG Challenge track, SIGIR 2025.

Experience

• Research Scholar, IISER Bhopal (July, 2022–Present).

Featured Projects

Code-Mixed Hate Detection

Developed a native sample mixing strategy to improve code-mixed hate detection in multilingual settings.

Fine-tuning LLM NLP Transfer Learning

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Programming‑ ECS102, IISER Bhopal (Jan,2025 ‑ Apr,2025)
• Teaching Assistant, Natural Language Processing‑ DSE407/607, IISER Bhopal (Aug,2024 ‑ Nov,2024)
• Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Programming‑ ECS102, IISER Bhopal (Jan,2024 ‑ Apr,2024)
• Teaching Assistant, Natural Language Processing‑ DSE407/607, IISER Bhopal (Aug,2023 ‑ Nov,2023)
• Teaching Assistant, Applied optimization‑ DSE311, IISER Bhopal (Jan,2023 ‑ Apr,2023)