Dipam Paul

Commonly referred to as ‘The Boy from Kolkata’ - Dipam is a recent Engineering graduate with a major in Electronics and Telecommunication from KIIT University, India.

He has previously spoken/presented at six PyCons and PyData -

(1) PyCon USA 2019 (Cleveland, Ohio)

(2) PyCon India 2019 (Chennai, India)

(3) PyCon USA 2020 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

(5) PyCon Australia 2020 (Adelaide, Australia)

(6) PyData Global 2020

Currently, he has joined Accenture, India as a Software Engineer. Prior to this, he was working as a Research Assistant @ School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. He primarily worked on Object Detection problems concerning 3D-Cryo ET data and areas of Deep Active Learning with focus on Dynamically Expandable Networks.

He has previously worked in and collaborated with labs at Georgia Institute of Technology, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, and IIT-Bombay in various roles and capacities.

Having always been fascinated by the wonders one can do using Python and Data, his periphery of interest largely lies in Deep Learning, Computer Vision, and Intelligence Theory related problems.

In the pandemic, he spends his days toying around with Deep Generative Models and fine-tuning Neural Nets when he is not eating, raconteuring, or engaging in a lively debate about Geopolitics or Football!