Soham Poddar
Research at NIQ | PhD (PMRF) IIT KGP | NLP | Sustainable AI | Social Computing
- Role
- Research Scientist at NielsenIQ
- Location
- Kharagpur, WB, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Soham Poddar
I have been working in the broad domain of Generative AI, Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science. During my PhD, I have worked towards optimizing the energy usage of LLMs for sustainability, and my thesis work was on studying the impact of COVID-19 on people\'s opinions towards vaccines. Previously, I worked on summarizing legal case documents.I have published papers in reputed conferences such as ACL, NAACL, SIGIR and ICWSM. I was awarded the prestigious PMRF fellowship in January 2021.Apart from academics, I play the bass guitar and love exploring music, gaming, swimming, Formula 1, and motorbiking.
Experience
Research Scientist
Apr 2026 — Present
Building custom LLMs
Education
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science
2020 — 2025
Auxilium Convent School
High School, Science
2003 — 2014
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering
2014 — 2019
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Master of Technology - MTech, Computer Science
2018 — 2020
Skills
- Computer Science
- Android Development
- Computer Hardware
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
- C++
- Linux
- Python
- Matlab
- Digital Image Processing
- C
- Java
- Robotics
- Bass Guitar
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