"Deep learning with deep imagination is the road map to AI springs and AI autumns"

Dr. Biplab Banerjee is an Associate Professor specializing in Machine Learning and Visual Computing at the Centre of Studies in Resources Engineering (CSRE) and the Center of Machine Intelligence & Data Science (MInDS) at IIT Bombay, India. He has been in this role since April 2022, previously serving as an Assistant Professor from June 2018 to March 2022. Additionally, Dr. Banerjee holds a position as an AI engineering advisor for AWL Inc. Japan. His earlier tenure includes an Assistant Professorship at the Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Roorkee, India, from October 2016 to May 2018. Dr. Banerjee has an extensive international academic presence, with visiting professor tenures at TU Munich, Germany, Ghent University, Belgium, and Kyungpook National University, South Korea. His post-doctoral assignments were at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Genova, Italy, and the Normandy University, France. He completed his Ph.D. in Machine Learning from IIT Bombay in 2015, receiving the “Excellence in Thesis” award. He obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science and Engineering, from the West Bengal University of Technology and Jadavpur University in 2008 and 2010, respectively. At IIT Bombay, Dr. Banerjee leads the Deep Learning in Remote Sensing & Computer Vision research group, currently comprising around 10 PhD students, 25 Masters' students, and approximately 10 undergraduate students. The lab focuses on various aspects of deep learning in image and video analysis, including learning under limited supervision, multi-task learning, vision-language models, domain adaptation and generalization, lifelong learning across domains, and multi-modal learning in vision. He received the prestigious Young Investigator's Award from IIT Bombay in 2021. Dr. Banerjee is also a Senior Member of IEEE.