Soumya Suvra Ghosal

sghosal@umd.edu

I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the CS dept at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Dinesh Manocha. Prior to this, I completed my Master's in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I was lucky to be advised by Prof. Sharon Li. I am broadly interested in the domain of AI Alignment, Trustworthy AI, and Multi-Modal Learning. Specifically, I am interested in solving a critical question: How to make deep-learning models more reliable and robust when deployed in the wild?

I am always open to collaborations! Please shoot me an email if you want to work together in the domain of Trustworthy AI and LLM Alignment :)

I am currently looking for research internships for Summer 2025. Please get in touch if you have any open positions.

Last Updated: 27 Sept, 2024

Education

University of Maryland, College Park

PhD in Computer Sciences

August 2023 -

University of Wisconsin, Madison

MS in Computer Sciences

September 2021 - May 2023

National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

Electronics and Communications Engineering

August 2016 - May 2020

News

• 08/2023	Joined CS PhD program at University of Maryland College-Park.
• 08/2023	Joined GAMMA lab under supervision of Prof. Dinesh Manocha.
• 09/2023	Paper on "Are Vision Transformers Robust to Spurious Correlations?" accepted by International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV).
• 10/2023	Our latest survey paper on "Towards Possibilities & Impossibilities of AI-generated Text Detection: A Survey" is on arXiv.
• 12/2023	Our latest work on Out-of-Distribution got accepted to AAAI 2024 . Thanks to my amazing collaborators Yiyou Sun and Sharon Li !
• 12/2023	Our survey paper "A Survey on the Possibilities & Impossibilities of AI-generated Text Detection" got accepted to TMLR .
• 05/2024	Joining Adobe as PhD Research Intern for Summer 2024.
• 06/2024	Our recent paper "Transfer Q Star: Principled Decoding for LLM Alignment" on inference-time alignment of large language models is now available on arXiv.
• 09/2024	Our latest work on Vision-Language prompt tuning got accepted to EMNLP 2024.
• 09/2024	Transfer Q-Star got accepted to NeurIPS 2024 .

Publications

Journal Proceedings

A Survey on the Possibilities & Impossibilities of AI-generated Text Detection

Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR)

Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Souradip Chakraborty, Jonas Geiping, Furong Huang, Dinesh Manocha, Amrit Bedi [ Paper ]

Are Vision Transformers Robust to Spurious Correlations?

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)

Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Yixuan Li [ Paper ] [ Code ]

Conference Proceedings

Transfer Q Star: Principled Decoding for LLM Alignment

Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2024

Souradip Chakraborty*, Soumya Suvra Ghosal*, Ming Yin, Dinesh Manocha, Mengdi Wang, Amrit Singh Bedi, Furong Huang (* denotes Equal Contribution) [ Paper ] [ Code ]

IntCoOp: Interpretability-Aware Vision-Language Prompt Tuning

Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2024 (Main Track)

Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Samyadeep Basu, Soheil Feizi, Dinesh Manocha [ Paper ]

How to Overcome Curse-of-Dimensionality for Out-of-Distribution Detection?

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2024

Soumya Suvra Ghosal*, Yiyou Sun*, Yixuan Li (* denotes Equal Contribution) [ Paper ] [ Code ]

Distributionally Robust Optimization with Probabilistic Group

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2023 (Oral)

Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Yixuan Li [ Paper ] [ Code ]

A Novel Data Augmentation Technique for Out-of-Distribution Sample Detection using Compounded Corruptions

European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles \& Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) 2022. (Research Track)

Ramya S. Hebbalaguppe*, Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Jatin Prakash, Harshad Khadilkar, Chetan Arora. [ Paper ] [ Code ]

Awards and Fellowships

Awarded Dean's Fellowship at University of Maryland College Park.
Awarded travel grant for attending AAAI 2023, AAAI 2024.
Awarded CS Dept. Graduate Fellowship, 2021 at UW-Madison.
MITACS Globalink Research Internship: I was awarded the Mitacs Globalink Research Internship in 2019, through which I received a stipend of approx. 8000 CAD for a period of 84 days and the opportunity to perform research work in Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal under the supervision of Prof. Issmail El Hallaoui.
DAAD WISE Research Internship : I was selected for DAAD WISE research internship in 2019 to perform cutting-edge research in University of Kiel, Germany. (Declined)
Summer Research Fellowship Programme: I was selected for Summer Research Fellowship Programme 2019 jointly organized by Indian Academy of Sciences (Bengaluru) , Indian National Science Academy (New Delhi) and The National Academy of Sciences (Prayagraj). (Declined)

Services

Reviewer for IJCV, ECCV 24, CVPR 24, CVPR 23, ICLR 23, ECCV 22 (Sub-reviewer).
Teaching Assistant for Data Programming-1 (CS220), Spring 2022 at UW-Madison.
Teaching Assistant for Data Programming-1 (CS220), Fall 2021 at UW-Madison.

JOY GURU !

I am a disciple of Sree Sree Thakur Anukul Chandra . Here are some inspiring quotes of Thakur Anukul Chandra:

" You are for the Lord
Not for others,
You are for the Lord
and so for others. "
-- Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra
" Serve as much as you are able,
But take care you have no desire
to be served. "
-- Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra
" Do never die
nor cause death
but resist death
to death. "
-- Sree Sree Thakur Anukulchandra

Here is a short biography of Thakur Anukul Chandra written by Ray A. Hauserman.