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Basics
| Name | Sreetama Sarkar |
| Label | PhD Student |
| sreetama@usc.edu | |
| Phone | (213) 574-4381 |
| Url | https://sreetamasarkar.github.io/ |
Work
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2025.05 - 2025.08 Research Scientist Intern
Samsung Research America
Improving Efficiency in Vision Language Models using Layer Skipping
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2024.01 - 2024.07 Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Southern California
- EE354L: Introduction to Digital Circuits
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2022.08 - 2027.05 Graduate Research Assistant
University of Southern California
Energy-efficiency and Trustworthiness in Multimodal Models
Education
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2022.08 - 2027.05 Los Angeles, USA
PhD
University of Southern California
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Energy-efficient fine-tuning and inference for edge devices, Adversarial Attacks and Defense, Secure and Trustworthy AI
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2021.09 - 2018.10 Munich, Germany
Master of Science
Technical University of Munich
Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Thesis: Robustness aware Pruning methods for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
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2017.05 - 2013.07 Durgapur, India
Bachelor of Technology
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
Electronics and Communications Engineering
- Thesis: Reliable Communication of IoT Devices using D2D Technology
Awards
- 2017
Institute Gold Medal
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
Awarded for highest marks in B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
- 2017
Parpatidevi Chandumal Memorial Gold Medal
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
Awarded for scholastic excellence among girl students.
- 2019
- 2022
MHI Fellowship
University of Southern California
Awarded to less than 10% of incoming PhD students in the department.
- 2024
Annenberg Endowed Fellowship
University of Southern California
Awarded to 2 students in the department.
Languages
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Bengali | |
| Native Speaker |
| Hindi | |
| Fluent |
| German | |
| Elementary |