Amartya Banerjee

PhD Student, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

I am a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at UNC, Chapel Hill. I am extremely fortunate to be advised by Prof. Harlin Lee and Prof. Caroline Moosmueller. I am also a member of Geometric Data Analysis @ UNC. Broadly, my research interests revolve around problems in Optimal Transport and Machine Learning.

Prior to joining my PhD, I graduated with a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park followed by a Master's in Computer Science, also from UMD.

Fun Fact: I have an Erdos number of 3.

News & Activities

[May 2025]: Interning at Amazon (Prime Video & Studios CoreTech Team) over summer
[Feb 2025]: Columbia University Optimal Transport and Statistics Workshop Travel Award
[Jan 2025]: Invited Talk at IIT Bombay
[Dec 2024]: First Place in Poster & Short Talks Competition at Data Science Week, Purdue University
[Oct 2024]: Our work on trajectory inference was covered by SIAM News
[Oct 2024]: Poster presentation prize at SDSS Data Science Day
[Aug 2024]: SIAM MDS24 Travel Award
[Nov 2023]: TriCAMS at Duke University

Applied Scientist (Prime Video & Studios CoreTech), Summer 2025

Topic: Causal Inference and Reinforcement Learning

Visiting Researcher, Summer 2024

Topic: Diffusion Models and Inverse Problems

Research Intern, Summer 2023

Topic: Anomaly Detection

Columbia University Optimal Transport and Statistics Workshop Travel Award (2025)

First Place in Poster & Short Talks Competition at Data Science Week, Purdue University (2024)

SDSS Data Science Day Poster Presentation Prize (2024)

SIAM MDS24 Travel Award (2024)

John D. Gannon Endowed Scholarship (2018)

Serving as Head TA, leading recitation sections and overseeing a team of undergraduate and graduate teaching assistants.
Assisting in course management: Coordinating grading logistics, student support, office hours scheduling, and providing feedback to students on coursework & class projects.