Dipanjyoti Paul

Dipanjyoti Paul
Assistant Professor
Department of Artificial Intelligence
IIT Kharagpur

CRR Building
Kharagpur-721302

About

Dr. Dipanjyoti Paul is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is a member of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (C-AIR) at the University of Tsukuba, Japan and the Imageomics Institute at The Ohio State University, USA.

Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India, and the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He also worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, USA.

His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and biology, particularly in computer vision and acoustic signal processing for ecology and biodiversity, explainable AI, and medical imaging.

Research Interests

AI for Ecology and Bio-DIversity
Explainable and Interpretable AI
Medical Imaging
Acoustic Signal Processing
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing

Current Appointments

October 2026–Present
Assistant Professor
IIT Kharagpur
October 2025–Present
Visiting Scientist
C-AIR, University of Tsukuba, Japan
January 2024–Present
Visiting Researcher
Imageomics Institute, The Ohio State University, USA

selected publications

  1. Prompt-cam: Making vision transformers interpretable for fine-grained analysis
    Arpita Chowdhury, Dipanjyoti Paul, Zheda Mai, and 8 more authors
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025
  2. A Simple Interpretable Transformer for Fine-Grained Image Classification and Analysis
    Dipanjyoti Paul, Arpita Chowdhury, Xinqi Xiong, and 11 more authors
    In The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024
  3. Online Summarization of Microblog Data: An Aid in Handling Disaster Situations
    Dipanjyoti Paul, Shivani Rana, Sriparna Saha, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2024
  4. ML-KnockoffGAN: Deep Online Feature Selection for Multi-Label Learning
    Dipanjyoti Paul, Snigdha Bardhan, Sriparna Saha, and 1 more author
    Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023
  5. Multi-Objective PSO Based Online Feature Selection for Multi-Label Classification
    Dipanjyoti Paul, Anushree Jain, Sriparna Saha, and 1 more author
    Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021