Abir De

Abir De is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His research focuses on designing machine learning models for structured objects like graphs and sets, emphasizing data-efficient learning and human-machine collaboration.

• Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
• Institution: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
• Department: Computer Science and Engineering

Research Interests:

• Differentiable surrogates for combinatorial graph algorithms (e.g., subgraph isomorphism detection)
• Data-efficient machine learning through strategic subset selection
• Neural models for submodular set functions
• Human-in-the-loop machine learning
• Information diffusion with capacity constraints

Scientific Awards:

• Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Winner (2022) and Superwinner (2023)
• Indian National Academy of Engineering Young Engineer Award (2021)
• Prof. Krithi Ramamritham Award for Creative Research (2020)
• Google India PhD Fellowship (2013)

Advising and Community Contributions:

• Co-advising PhD students Indradyumna Roy and N Lokesh
• Program Co-chair of IndoML 2023
• Co-organizer of CSE Research Symposium (2023) and SubSetML workshop (2021)
• Tutorial creator at AIML Systems Conference (2021) and AAAI (2022)
• Serving on Senior PC at AAAI (2022-2024), PC member at NeurIPS (2016-2023), and ICLR (2018-2023)