Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Arizona 1230 E. Speedway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85721
	payelb@arizona.edu
	Tucson, Arizona, United States

Payel Bhattacharjee (She/Her)

Graduate Student

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The University of Arizona

I am Payel Bhattacharjee, a graduate student (PhD) in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. My Ph.D. advisor is Dr. Ravi Tandon. I have started my Ph.D. in Fall 2022 after completing my bachelor’s degree (B.Tech) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT University), Bhubaneswar, India (2017-2021). Before joining the University of Arizona, I have worked as an Associate Software Engineer at Bosch Global Software Technologies (BGSW) from 2021-2022.
My research interest focuses on Trustworthy Machine Learning, Differential Privacy, Fine-tuning and Alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs), Causal Inference and Causal Graph Discovery.
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Awards

1. People's Choice Award for presenting the research work titled "CURATE: Scaling up Differentially Private Causal Graph Discovery".
ECE Graduate Poster Symposium 2024,
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.

2. KIIT Merit Scholarship for obtaining the highest CGPA (10.0/10.0) in the academic year 2017-2018.
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology,
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

News

2. PETs for Public Health Challenge In collaboration with the University of Verginia, Georgia Tech and under the guidance of Dr. Anil Vullikanti, Dr. Ravi Tandon, and Dr. Aditya B Prakash, we presented our work on Epidemic data analysis with Differential Privacy guarantees.
Joint deep learning and epidemic transmission model for public health analyses with differential privacy .

1. ECE GSA Officer I am honored to be a part of the University of Arizona ECE Graduate Student Association (ECE GSA), and serve as an Officer".
ECE Graduate Student Association (2024-Present),
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.