Positions

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Assistant Professor (Since Nov 2023)

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow (Apr 2022 - Oct 2023)

Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Visiting Scientist (Dec 2021 - Mar 2022)

Senior Research Fellow (Jul 2018 - Dec 2021)
Junior Research Fellow (Jul 2016 - Jul 2018)

Project - Linked - Person (Aug 2015 - Jul 2016)
Project - Linked - Person (Dec 2013 - Aug 2015)

Education

Indian Statistical Institute

Ph. D. in Computer Science (2021)

Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology Shibpur

M. Tech. in Information Technology (2016)

West Bengal University of Technology

M. Sc. in Information Science (2010)

Vidyasagar University

B. Sc. Honours in Mathematics (2007)

Journals

[11] S. Lahiri, A. Dhar, N. S. Punn, and B. Santra, “DINOv2KAN: Kolmogorov–Arnold Network with DINOv2 Vision Transformer for enhanced characterization of Alzheimer’s Disease,” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 120:109975, 2026.
[10] L. Liu, J. Liu, B. Santra, P. Mukherjee, Y. Zhu, C. Parnell, A. Anand, T. S. Mathai and R. M. Summers, “Utilizing Domain Knowledge to Improve the Classification of Intravenous Contrast Phase of CT Scans,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 119:102458, 2025.
[9] O. David, T. S. Mathai, B. Santra, P. Mukherjee, J. Liu, A. Jha, M. Patel, K. Pacak and R. M. Summers, “Weakly Supervised Detection of Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas in CT using Noisy Data,” Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, 116:102419, 2024.
[8] A. Panda, B. Santra and D. P. Mukherjee, “Isolating Features of Object and its State for Compositional Zero-shot Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2023.
[7] B. Santra, U. Ghosh, and D. P. Mukherjee, "Graph-based Modelling of Superpixels for Automatic Identification of Empty Shelves in Supermarkets," Pattern Recognition, 2022. [Pre-print] [BibTeX]
[6] B. Santra, A. K. Shaw, and D. P. Mukherjee, "Part-based Annotation-free Fine-grained Classification of Images of Retail Products," Pattern Recognition, 2022. [Pre-print] [BibTeX]
[5] B. Santra, A. K. Shaw, and D. P. Mukherjee, "An End-to-End Annotation-free Machine Vision System for Detection of Products on the Rack," Machine Vision and Applications, 32:56, 2021. [Pre-print] [BibTeX]
[4] B. Santra, A. K. Shaw, and D. P. Mukherjee, "Graph-based Non-maximal Suppression for Detecting Products on the Rack," Pattern Recognition Letters, 140:73-80, 2020. [Pre-print] [BibTeX]
[3] B. Santra, A. Paul, and D. P. Mukherjee, "Deterministic Dropout for Deep Neural Networks Using Composite Random Forest," Pattern Recognition Letters, 131:205-212, 2020. [Pre-print] [BibTeX]
[2] B. Santra, and D. P. Mukherjee, "A Comprehensive Survey on Computer Vision based Approaches for Automatic Identification of Products in Retail Store," Image and Vision Computing, 86:45-63, 2019. [Pre-print] [BibTeX]
[1] S. Agarwal, B. Santra, and D. P. Mukherjee, “Anubhav: Recognizing Emotional Facial Expressions in Real-time,” The Visual Computer, 34(2):177-191, 2018. [Project Page] [BibTeX]

Conferences

[14] P.V. Kajare, P. Priya, B. Santra, and A. Ekbal "PRISMA: Preference-Reinforced Self-Training Approach for Interpretable Emotionally Intelligent Negotiation Dialogues", In Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026). 2026.
[13] S. Mishra, D. Roy, S. R. Mathur, and B. Santra, "Cross-Modal Image Learning for HER2 Status Detection from H&E Histopathology Images", In 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026). IEEE, 2026.
[12] S. Lahiri, P. Srivastava, N. S. Punn, and B. Santra, "Synthesizing Functional Insights from Structural MRI for Alzheimer’s Detection Using Deep Correlation Multimodal Image Learning", In 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2026). IEEE, 2026.
[11] S. Ghosh, D. Roy, A. Das, and B. Santra, "Optimodnet: A unet-transformer hybrid with grouped-query and channel attention for optic disc and cup segmentation", In International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing. Springer, 2025.
[10] A. Pal, G. Patidar, and B. Santra, "Feddermaseg: Federated learning for dermatological image segmentation", In International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing. Springer, 2025.
[9] O. Makroo, B. Santra, P. Mukherjee, T. S. Mathai, A. Jha, M. Patel, K. Pacak, and R. M. Summers, "Enhanced identification of pheochromocytoma and paragangliomas' genetic clusters from CT", In Medical Imaging 2025: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, vol. 13407, pp. 314–318. SPIE, 2025.
[8] B. Santra, and D. P. Mukherjee, "Which Region Proposal to Choose? A Case Study for Automatic Identification of Retail Products", In 39th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, pages 1–6. IEEE, 2024.
[7] D. C. Oluigbo, B. Santra, T. S. Mathai, P. Mukherjee, J. Liu, A. Jha, M. Patel, K. Pacak, and R. M. Summers, "Weakly supervised detection of pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas in CT", In Medical Imaging 2024: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, vol. 12927, pp. 176-180. SPIE, 2024.
[6] L. Liu, J. Liu, P. Mukherjee, A. Anand, Y. Zhu, B. Santra, and R. M. Summers, "Utilizing Domain Knowledge to Improve Intravenous Contrast Phase Classification Of CT Scans", In Medical Imaging 2024: Computer-Aided Diagnosis, vol. 12927, pp. 332-336. SPIE, 2024.
[5] B. Santra, A. Jha, P. Mukherjee, M. Patel, K. Pacak, and R. M. Summers, "Anatomical Location-Guided Deep Learning-Based Genetic Cluster Identification of Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas From CT Images", In International Workshop on Applications of Medical AI (AMAI-MICCAI 2023), pp. 62-71, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.
[4] A. Panda, B. Santra and D. P. Mukherjee, “Bi-modal Compositional Network for Feature Disentanglement,” In Image Processing (ICIP 2022), 2022 IEEE International Conference on, pages 3051-3055. IEEE, 2022.
[3] B. Santra, D. P. Mukherjee and D. Chakrabarti, “A Non-Invasive Approach for Estimation of Hemoglobin Analyzing Blood Flow in Palm,” In Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2017), 2017 IEEE 14th International Symposium on, pages 1100-1103. IEEE, 2017. [BibTeX]
[2] B. Santra and D. P. Mukherjee, “Local Dominant Binary Patterns for Recognition of Multi-view Facial Expressions,” In Proceedings of the Tenth Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, page 25. ACM, 2016. [BibTeX]
[1] B. Santra and D. P. Mukherjee, “Local Saliency-inspired Binary Patterns for Automatic Recognition of Multi-view Facial Expression,” In Image Processing (ICIP), 2016 IEEE International Conference on, pages 624-628. IEEE, 2016. [BibTeX]

Patents

Granted

[2] AU2021245099B2: “Fine-grained Classification of Retail Products,” Granted in Australia and pending in India, USA, and Europe.
[1] AU2020205301B2, US20210042588A1: “Method and System for Region Proposal based Object Recognition for Estimating Planogram Compliance,” Granted in Australia and USA; Pending in India and Europe.

Research

Machine & Medical Vision Lab (MMVL)

At IIT Jodhpur, I lead the research lab, the Machine & Medical Vision Lab (MMVL), established on 27 July 2024. The lab focuses on developing multimodal learning, federated learning, continual learning, and annotation-efficient deep learning methods for computer vision and medical image analysis. Click here for more details on MMVL.

I encourage motivated and dynamic young graduates to join MMVL as PhD students or Project Fellows to work on cutting-edge research problems in Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Medical Image Analysis. The motivated and dynamic UG and PG students of IITJ are always welcome to MMVL to do the research studies towards their bachelors and masters projects/theses. The lab also hosts long-term interns who are strongly motivated toward research and have clear, time-bound goals.

Funded Projects

4. AI-powered Characterization of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) - Funded by ANRF ARG as Co-PI (AI lead) [Jun 2026 - Jun 2029]
3. PPGL's Genetic Cluster Identification - Funded by ANRF ECRG as PI [Jun 2025 - Jun 2028]
2. MRI Quality Enhancement - Funded by IIT Jodhpur as Co-PI [Jul 2024 - May 2026]
1. Vision in Plant Phenomics - Funded by TIH iHub Drishti as Co-PI, IIT Jodhpur [Jan 2024 - Sep 2025]

Teaching

Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur

Deep Learning for Computer Vision (PG)
Foundations of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing (PG)
Digital Image Analysis (PG)
Principles of Programming Languages (UG)
Python Programming for Data Engineering (PG)
Machine Learning [PG]
DL-Ops (PG)

Indian Statistical Institute

Programming: Python (PGDSMA)
Introduction to Packages: Python (PGDSMA)
Computing for Data Sciences (PGDBA)

Awards

3) Won The Fellows Award for Research Excellence, 2024 (FARE 2024) from NIH, USA

2) Won 2nd prize of Young IT Professional Award - 2013 from CSI India

1) Won 1st prize of Young IT Professional Award - 2013 from CSI Kolkata Chapter, India


Acheivements

5) Selected for an oral presentation in RSNA 2023

4) NIH Intramural Postdoc Fellowship (2022) from the National Institutes of Health, USA, 2021

3) Research Associateship from Indian Statistical Institute, India, 2021 [declined]

2) Finalist of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2020, India

1) PhD Fellowship from the Indian Statistical Institute, India, 2016


News Coverage

1) English daily 'The Telegraph' covered our research on facial expression analysis on Mar 23, 2018

Developments

Desktop Software & Android Application

[2] Anubhav: a windows application software to detect facial emotional expression, ISI Kolkata, 2014; the demonstration of Anubhav can be seen here. [Project Page]
[1] Anubhav: an android application to detect facial emotional expression, ISI Kolkata, 2014; click here to get the android app; click here for instructions to run the Anubhav.

Professional Activities

Organizing Activities

[2] Advisory Member: Winter School on Deep Learning, 2023 (WSDL 2023)
[1] Organizing Chair: Winter School on Deep Learning, 2022 (WSDL 2022)

Journal Activities

[6] Reviewer: Neurocomputing, Elsevier (Since Jul 2021)
[5] Reviewer: SN Computer Science, Springer (Since Sep 2020)
[4] Reviewer: Access, IEEE (Since Dec 2019)
[3] Reviewer: Image Processing, IET (Since Aug 2017)
[2] Reviewer: Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE (Since Mar 2017)
[1] Reviewer: Sadhana, Springer (Since Nov 2014)

Conference Activities

[2] Reviewer: ICVGIP, ICAPR, NCVPRIPG
[1] Session Chair: 2nd Workshop on Computer Vision Applications (WCVA 2016)

Miscellaneous

Useful Tutorials

[7] Python Libraries for Deep Learning: a) [Tensorflow] CS20 b) [PyTorch] GitHub1 c) GitHub2
[6] Deep Learning in Computer Vision: a) Toronto CSC2523 b) Stanford CS231n
[5] Deep Learning: a) Y. Bengio b) MIT 6.S191 c) Stanford UFLDL d) Stanford CS224n e) DL
[4] Artificial Intelligence: a) Stanford CS221
[3] Machine Learning: a) Berkeley CS 189/289A b) Toronto CSC411 c) A. Ng d) Stanford CS229
[2] Probability for Computer Scientists: a) Stanford CS109
[1] Indexing of Course Videos: a) Computer Science

Important Links

[5] Computer Vision Research Groups
[4] Deep Learning Research Groups
[3] Computer Vision Datasets
[2] Computer Vision Conference Calendar
[1] CORE Coference Ranking

Memorable Moments

[5] M Tech Convocation, IIEST Shibpur, 2017
[4] Microsoft Research Summit, IISC Bangalore, 2017
[3] Campus Life, ISI Kolkata, 2014-2021
[2] ICVGIP, IIT Guwahati, 2016
[1] YITP Award, Ahmedabad, 2013

Get in touch

Contact Details

Room No. 305-C, Second Floor, CRF Building (Beside Samiyana)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology
Jodhpur, Rajasthan 342030
Office : +91 291 280 1763
Email : bikash@iitj.ac.in