Dr. Subhabrata Majumdar
Dr. Subhabrata Majumdar joined IIMB on 19th January as an Assistant Professor in the Decision Sciences area. He holds the Young Faculty Research Chair.
Subhabrata Majumdar received his PhD in Statistics from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Prior to joining IIMB, he was Co-founder and Head of AI at Vijil, a US-based AI startup that helps enterprises build and operate trustworthy AI agents. Before that, he was a senior scientist in the security research team at Splunk and the Data Science and AI Research team at AT&T Labs.
Dr Majumdar has pioneered the use of trustworthy AI methods in multiple companies, and authored a book Practicing Trustworthy Machine Learning. His work in the data for good space has driven policy changes in organizations such as UNICEF Office of Innovation and Chicago Department of Public Health, and has received global recognition through outlets such as MIT Tech Review. He is a recipient of the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) Early Career Award in Statistics and Data Sciences.
Dr Majumdar’s research interests are broadly in the areas of trustworthy AI and statistical machine learning. He is particularly interested in the theoretical foundations of AI security and alignment.
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