Hello! I'm Jyotishka, a first-year Ph.D. student in Machine Learning at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Tech. I'm a recipient of the Ronald J. and Carol T. Beerman Fellowship, and the ISyE Beerman President's Fellowship, starting in Fall 2024. I am fortunate to be co-advised by Prof. Ashwin Pananjady and Prof. Yao Xie.

Previously, I studied at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and graduated from there with a Bachelor of Statistics (B.Stat) degree (with Honours) in 2022, and a Master of Statistics (M.Stat) degree (with Theoretical Statistics specialization) in 2024.

My primary research interest lies in the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and optimization. I am interested in theory, methodologies, and their applications that make sense. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, I have mostly worked on high-dimensional classification (with Prof. Subhajit Dutta), clustering (with Prof. Swagatam Das), and conditional independence testing (with Prof. Eugene Katsevich). Apart from these, I spent the summer of 2022 at IIM Bangalore as a research intern.

I was born and raised in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, and I'm a native Bengali speaker. I do not have a lot of hobbies, but have a firm interest in science, technology, cooking, football (soccer), table tennis, history, high-performance computing, and learning new languages (both human and programming languages). As of now, I can read, write, and speak Bengali, Hindi, and English, and I know a little Spanish as well.

The correct pronunciation of my first name is /dʒʊˈtɪʃˈkʊ/ (phonetic transcription in accordance with the IPA standard). For a simplified (anglicized) version and further details, please click on the blue icon next to my name at the top of this page.