🚀 PhD Research Grad.

Sayan Nath

PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Calgary, researching Applied AI and Human Computer Interaction. Passionate about building scalable AI systems with real-world impact.

Available for collaborations · Calgary, 🇨🇦

Education

PhD in Computer Science

University of Calgary · Computer Science

GPA: TBD

Research: Applied AI, Human Computer Interaction

Supervisor: Dr. Aditya Shekhar Nittala

January 2026 – Present

Master of Science (Thesis-based)

University of Calgary · Electrical & Computer Engineering

GPA: 4.0/4.0

Research: Responsible AI, LLM, Machine Learning

Supervisor(s): Dr. Gias Uddin & Dr. Henry Leung

Fall 2023 – December 2025

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT)

GPA: 9.0/10

Major: Information Technology (IT)

Supervisor: Dr. Suresh Chandra Satapathy

Summer 2019 – Spring 2023

Recognition & Awards

  • ESE Graduate Research Award
    University of Calgary
    2× Winner

Experience

Driving innovation and developer experience across multiple organizations.

DiFF Lab, iLab, University of Calgary

January 2026 – Present

PhD Student

Calgary, Canada

Key Achievements:

  • TBD

DISA Lab, University of Calgary

August 2023 – December 2025

MSc Research Assistant

Calgary, Canada

Key Achievements:

  • Bias Mitigation in ML: Conducted in-depth research on balancing fairness and accuracy in machine learning models by implementing bias mitigation strategies. Focused on developing methodologies that enhance model fairness without compromising performance.
  • Bias Mitigation in LLM: Developed AutoFairer, an automated bias detection and sanitization framework for large language models, along with Biascore, a composite metric for quantifying bias in generated text, advancing ethical and transparent LLM systems.
  • Sustainability in CodeLLM:A study that estimates and analyzes the carbon emissions of code generation LLMs on HumanEval⁺ and MBPP⁺, highlighting the trade-off between coding performance and environmental sustainability.
  • Teaching: Acted as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for undergraduate and graduate courses, providing mentorship and guidance to students.

Scaler by InterviewBit

November 2022 – August 2023

Technical Content Reviewer and Problem Setter Intern

Remote (India)

Key Achievements:

  • Setting up problems/quiz for Scaler Topics on Keras & PyTorch.
  • Working to create an outline for technical content for Keras.
  • Writing different technical content as a blog post for Keras.

TensorFlow

November 2022 – August 2023

Google Summer of Code Student

Remote (India)

Key Achievements:

  • Implemented MobileViT in TensorFlow and Keras.
  • Used MobileViT's official Pytorch weights to port from Pytorch to TensorFlow.
  • Created two notebooks for tutorial purposes i.e Off-the-shelf classification and Fine-tuned notebook.
  • Publish all the models in TensorFlow Hub.

Blend

October 2021 – June 2022

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Remote (India)

Key Achievements:

  • Responsible for creating Computer Vision Services to enhance the product.
  • Worked on on-device Deep Learning with TensorFlow Lite as well deploying Machine Learning Services in production with AWS Sagemaker.
  • Trained models on Google Cloud Platform, reproduced SOTA models from research. papers.

TensorFlow Organisation

May 2021 – August 2021

Google Summer of Code Student

Remote (India)

Key Achievements:

  • Understand the Tensorflow Lite Task Library.
  • Implemented CameraX and remove the usage of fragments with the existing Camera2 and Camera API in Object Detection App.
  • Implement Support Library with TensorFlow Lite Interpreter.
  • Implemented the Image to BitMap conversion and modify Support Library and Task Library.
  • Adding a Bounding Box Function in tflite-support Library.
  • Implemented Data Binding.

Technical Expertise

Languages
  • Python
  • Java
  • C/C++
  • SQL
  • Dart
Frameworks
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • HuggingFace
  • DSPy
Cloud & Tools
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • REST APIs
Specializations
  • Responsible AI
  • Applied AI
  • Technical Writing
  • LLM Efficiency

Projects & Publications

Selected work across fairness-aware AutoML and Computer Vision. Code and manuscripts linked where available.

FairSpace

Fairness-aware AutoML pipeline that prunes the search space and integrates LLM-guided preprocessing to reach better fairness–accuracy trade-offs with modest overhead.

Search Space PruningAutoMLLLM-Guided PreprocessingFairness

FairGA

A fairness-aware genetic algorithm framework that leverages AutoML run history to optimize hyperparameters for both accuracy and fairness.

AutoMLGenetic AlgorithmFairnessBias Mitigation

AutoFairer

Automated bias detection and sanitization framework for large language models, along with Biascore, a composite metric for quantifying bias in generated text, advancing ethical and transparent LLM systems.

LLMSupervised Fine-TuningFairness Metrics

Blood Cell Detection

This project demonstrates the use of TFOD API to automatically detect blood cells in each image taken via microscopic image readings.

Object DetectionKerasTensorFlowMedicalDiagnosis

American Sign Language

American Sign Language Detection is a deep learning end to end project where we can detect American Sign Language.

Image ClassificationKerasTensorFlowLiteAndroid

Publications

2024

FTASD-A Fine Tuning Approach for Stable Diffusion Models

S. Nath, et al.15th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)accepted

2022

Blood Cell Detection in Microscopic Images

S. Nath, et al.International Journal of Scientific Development and Researchaccepted

2022

Identical Image Retrieval using Deep Learning

S. Nath, et al.International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology, Volume 8 Issue 12accepted

Connect

Always excited to collaborate on research and impactful ML projects, speak at conferences, or help teams build fair and reliable AI systems.

Open to Collaborate On

Responsible AIFairness in MLLLM EfficiencyResearch ProjectsTechnical SpeakingOpen Source

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