About Me

Some information about myself.

Kaustav Bhattacharjee

PhD Candidate, Department of Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology

I am a final-year Ph.D. Candidate at NJIT’s Department of Data Science. My dissertation focuses on developing interactive visual analytic workflows to assess the privacy and utility tradeoffs of open datasets.

Newark, NJ

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My Publications

2024

Bhattacharjee, Kaustav, Soumya Kundu, Indrasis Chakraborty and Aritra Dasgupta. "Forte: An Interactive Visual Analytic Tool for Trust-Augmented Net Load Forecasting." In Proceedings of 2024 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT). [in publication]

2023

Yuan, Jun, and Aritra Dasgupta. "A Simple Scoring Function to Fool SHAP: Stealing from the One Above." In Proceedings of the NeurIPS 2023 Workshop on XAI in Action [in publication]

Yuan Jun, Kaustav Bhattacharjee, Akm Zahirul Islam and Aritra Dasgupta. "TRIVEA: Transparent Ranking Interpretation using Visual Explanation of black-box Algorithmic rankers." In Visual Computer (2023), doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00371-023-03055-x. [paper]

Bhattacharjee, Kaustav, and Aritra Dasgupta. "VALUE: Visual Analytics driven Linked data Utility Evaluation." In Proceedings of the Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA), ACM, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3597465.3605225. [paper]

Yuan, Jun, and Aritra Dasgupta. "A Human-in-the-loop Workflow for Multi-Factorial Sensitivity Analysis of Algorithmic Rankers." In Proceedings of the Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA), ACM, 2023, doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/3597465.3605221. [paper]

Chakraborty, Indrasis, Aritra Dasgupta, Javier Rubio-Herrero, Sai Pushpak Nandanoori, Soumya Kundu and Vikas Chandan. "Application of Machine Learning for Energy-Efficient Buildings." In: Fathi, M., Zio, E., Pardalos, P.M. (eds) Handbook of Smart Energy Systems. Springer, Cham. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72322-4_102-1 [paper]

Sloane, Mona, Ian René Solano-Kamaiko, Jun Yuan, Aritra Dasgupta, and Julia Stoyanovich. "Introducing contextual transparency for automated decision systems." Nature Machine Intelligence (2023): 1-9. [paper]

Bhattacharjee, Kaustav, and Aritra Dasgupta. "Power to the Data Defenders: Human-Centered Disclosure Risk Calibration of Open Data." 2023 Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC)(2023), doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.14722/usec.2023.237256. [paper]

My Skills

I am really good at the following skills

Work Experience

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

August 2019 to Present

PhD Student

Department of Informatics

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Studying as a PhD student with a major in Information Systems and working in the NJIT's Intelligible Information Visualization lab (NiiV).
April 2018 to August 2019

Consultant

Cyber Security

PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited

Working in the Managed Security Services (MSS) domain of Cyber Security Practice with hands-on experience in SIEM Administration, Implementation & Design along with exposure in Threat Intelligence Management and Primary Malware Analysis.
Aug 2016 to March 2018

Senior Analyst

Cyber Security

PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited

Working in Managed Security Services (MSS) projects for certain banking, pharmaceutical and mining clients, focussing on detection and analysis of different security incidents related to firewalls, antivirus, servers, along with availability monitoring and anti-virus and patch compliance monitoring.
June 2015 to July 2015

Intern

Analyse Technology Solutions

Completed an Internship Project on analysing Twitter Datasets, including hashtags analysis and sentiment analysis, using Map Reduce (Java), titled "Sentiment Analysis And Related Big Data Analyses on Huge Datasets of Tweets on Celebrities”.

Education

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

B.Tech in Information Technology

Institute of Engineering & Management(IEM), Kolkata

Completed Bachelors in Information Technology at IEM Kolkata with first class grade in 2016.

DGPA

9.13

2012 - 2016

Higher Secondary

Patha Bhavan, Kolkata

Completed Higher Secondary From Patha Bhavan, under West Bengal Council For Higher Secondary Education(WBCHSE).

PERCENTAGE

84.14

2010-2012

Secondary

Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya, Narendrapur

Completed Secondary From RKMV Narendrapur, under West Bengal Board of Secondary Education(WBBSE).

PERCENTAGE

85.89

2004 - 2010

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Kaustav

Bhattacharjee

About Me

Kaustav Bhattacharjee

PhD Candidate, Department of Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology

My Publications

My Skills

Work Experience

August 2019 to Present

PhD Student

Department of Informatics

New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

April 2018 to August 2019

Consultant

Cyber Security

PricewaterhouseCoopers Private Limited

Aug 2016 to March 2018

Senior Analyst