His academic prowess is underscored by his impressive rankings at the state and national levels in India's Science Olympiad, achieving both double-digit and triple-digit ranks.
SAN JOSE, CA, June 13, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Soumik Dey has been recognized for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. Dey has established himself as a key figure in applied research at eBay Inc., where he has been pivotal since 2022. Specializing in strategic keyword recommendations to enhance seller-buyer connections, he leads initiatives, conducts vital research and plays a significant role in eBay's collaborations with universities to improve information retrieval systems.
Before joining eBay, Dr. Dey gained experience through various roles at esteemed institutions. From 2017 to 2022, he served as an adjunct lecturer and graduate research assistant at Hunter College. Additionally, he worked as a database administrator at the City University of New York from 2017 to 2018. He also served as an associate instructor and graduate research assistant at Indiana University Bloomington from 2016 to 2017 and as a data analyst in 2016. His career began with an internship at Tata Consultancy Services Limited in 2014, setting the stage for his future endeavors in technology and academia.
Dr. Dey has achieved notable milestones in his career, including ranking seventh for a Spanish-language hate speech detection project at SEMEVAL in 2019. His academic prowess is underscored by his impressive rankings at the state and national levels in India's Science Olympiad, achieving both double-digit and triple-digit ranks. In 2014, he demonstrated leadership as gym captain at Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, and as mess manager of the senior hall. Additionally, he showcased creativity as a choreographer for the school dance team at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in 2011.
Dr. Dey has also contributed significantly to the field through his creative works. He authored "Variation in Old English revisited: a corpus-driven approach," published in the Journal of Historical Syntax in 2023. His work "Gradual Syntactic Triggering: The Gradient Parameter Hypothesis" was published in the Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition in 2020. In 2017, he authored "Rule-based classifier BoolSet and its characteristics," published by ProQuest. He also authored a new publication titled "Analysis and Modeling of Self-Reported and Observer-Reported Personality Scores from Text and Speech" for Speech Prosody 2024 and another work to be presented at the eBay AI conference 2024 titled "Positive-Unlabeled Sequence Learning for Extreme Multi-label Classification with Missing Labels." He has also actively engaged with the academic community as a presenter in various fields and as a reviewer for multiple journals.
Dr. Dey's academic background built a strong foundation for his professional success. His educational journey began with a high school diploma from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Kolkata, which he completed in 2011. He then obtained a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur in India in 2015, followed by a Master of Science in computer science from Indiana University Bloomington in 2017. He then went on to earn a PhD in computer science with a focus on natural language processing (NLP) and reinforcement learning from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2022.
In addition to his professional endeavors, Dr. Dey has been actively involved in civic associations and creative publications. In his time at Indiana University Bloomington, he has served as a seminar lecturer and has been an event organizer for the Global Alumni Association of the Bengal Engineering and Science University between 2014-2015. His contributions to academia are further evidenced by awards such as Applied Researcher of the Quarter by eBay Inc. in 2023 and the Campus Catalyst Award for Sustainability from Indiana University Bloomington in 2016.
Looking ahead, Dr. Dey aims to nurture his career at eBay or any other company he is associated with, continuing his research work and leading his team of engineers and researchers to publish more papers, particularly in information retrieval and NLP. Additionally, he desires to establish collaborative relationships with university peers if he resumes teaching.
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