Digbalay Bose

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering. I am a member of Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory and currently advised by Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan. Prior to USC, I worked as a Research Software Engineer at IBM Research, India from 2016 to 2018. I received my Masters in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2016, where I was advised by Prof. Subhasis Chaudhuri. Previously, I obtained my Bachelors degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2014.

My research interests broadly span across the domains of multimodal machine learning, affective computing and applications of computer vision in healthcare. I am particularly interested in multimodal learning with major focus along the following dimensions:

• Robustness: Improving model performance under adversarial settings including modality corruption.
• Generalization: Enhancing the generalization capabilities of multi-modal foundation models to novel reasoning tasks across diverse groups/cultures and domains.