ARPITA BISWAS, Ph.D.
Research Associate,
T.H. Chan School of Public Health,
Harvard University
arpita.biswas@live.in
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Incoming tenure-track assistant professor in the Computer Science department at Rutgers University.
Current Affiliation: Research Associate at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Prior to this, I was a CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Harvard University. I earned my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA), Indian Institute of Science (IISc). My dissertation provides algorithms for fair decision-making in three main contexts---resource allocation, recommendation, and classification. I have received the Best Thesis Prize from the Indian Academy of Engineering (INAE) 2021, Best Thesis Award by the Dept. of CSA, IISc (2020-2021), a Google Ph.D. Fellowship (2016-2020), and a GHCI scholarship (2018). I am extremely grateful to have been recognized as a Rising Star in STOC 2021 and in the Trustworthy ML Seminar Series for my contributions to algorithms for fair decision-making.
My broad areas of interest include Algorithmic Game Theory, Optimization, and Machine Learning. I am particularly interested in responsible decision-making. My research spans a range of problems in intervention planning, multi-agent learning (multi-armed bandit), incentive mechanisms, market algorithms, scheduling, etc. and thus far, I have worked on problems arising from real-world scenarios like healthcare, recommendation, resource allocation, online crowd-sourcing, dynamic pricing in transportation, and ride-sharing. My long-term goal as a researcher is to help provide responsible and resilient decision-support solutions to socially impactful problems.
Photo Gallery
Invited Speaker,
Women in AI Ignite @ NeurIPS
New Orleans, November 30, 2022
Junior Chair for "ML for Population Health",
Machine Learning for Health (ML4H)
New Orleans, November 28, 2022
Field visit for a maternal health project,
ARMMAN (NGO), Mumbai, India
July 18, 2022
Women in Theory (WIT),
Simons Institute, Berkeley
June 7-10, 2022
A new health-van inauguration event,
The Family Van, Boston
May 16, 2022
Invited speaker,
Milton Academy, Milton
April 27, 2022
Professional Experience:
Research Associate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (February 2023 - till date)
CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (November 2020-2022)
Visiting Researcher, Google Research (July 2020 to October 2020)
Research Intern at Microsoft Research Cambridge (April 2019 to July 2019)
Research Intern at Microsoft Research India (August 2018 to December 2018)
Research Engineer at Xerox Research Center India (July 2014 to July 2016)