Aishik Mandal

Aishik Mandal is an ELLIS PhD student at UKP Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt, supervised by Prof. Iryna Gurevych and co-supervised by Prof. Aurélien Bellet. He completed his Master's in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Applications and Bachelor's in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, where he received the Silver Medal for best academic performance in his department.

His research focuses on Dialogue Systems, Multimodality, and Privacy, with significant contributions to mental health AI applications, depression detection, and culturally diverse multilingual visual question answering. His work combines advanced machine learning techniques with practical applications for healthcare and human-computer interaction.

Mandal's research output shows a clear progression from foundational work in dialogue understanding and representation learning to more specialized applications in mental health and privacy-aware AI systems. His recent publications demonstrate expertise in multimodal fusion techniques, ordinal classification for depression severity prediction, and developing culturally sensitive AI benchmarks.

• Silver Medal from Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering department at IIT Kharagpur
• DAAD WISE scholarship for internship at TU Munich
• Charpak Lab scholarship for internship at INRIA Paris
• GKF International Internship scholarship for INRIA Paris

Mandal has been actively involved in research collaborations across multiple institutions, including IIT Kharagpur's Centre of Excellence in AI, Complex Network Research Group, Technical University of Munich, and INRIA Paris. His academic journey shows a strong foundation in both theoretical computer science and practical AI applications, with increasing specialization in multimodal dialogue systems and privacy-conscious AI development.