Hi, I'm Soham Poddar!

Portrait of Soham Poddar

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About Me

I am currently a PhD Research Intern at Hewlett Packard Labs, Bangalore, India.

Earlier I was a PMRF Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, where I worked on the areas of "Optimizing LLMs to improve sustainability" and "Social Media Analytics for mitigating Disasters and Epidemics" under the guidance of Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh.

Research Interests

  • Large Language Models (LLMs) Optimization
  • Social Media Analytics
  • Sustainable AI and Green Computing
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Learning and Deep Learning
  • Disaster and Epidemic Management using Social Data

Current Work

My current research at HP Labs focuses on developing efficient and sustainable AI systems. I am particularly interested in making large language models more environmentally friendly and resource-efficient while maintaining their performance.

Through my doctoral research at IIT Kharagpur, I have been exploring how social media data can be leveraged to better understand and respond to disasters and epidemics, contributing to improved public safety and crisis management.