2026
- April HierBOSSS got awarded the 2026 IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award for presenting at 2026 ISBA World Meeting in Nagoya, Japan.
- March Work on VaSST: Variational Inference for Symbolic Regression using Soft Symbolic Trees submitted (arXiv).
- Feb Will be joining Upstart as a Research Scientist Intern this summer.
- Feb HierBOSSS got featured in Texas A&M College News [http://tx.ag/SomjitRoy].
- Feb Work on Frequentist Regret Analysis of Gaussian Process Thompson Sampling via Fractional Posteriors submitted (arXiv).
- Jan Invited talk on Hierarchical Bayesian Operator-induced Symbolic Regression Trees for Structural Learning of Scientific Expressions (arXiv:2509.19710) at the 2026 Symposium on Data Science & Statistics in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- Jan Our work Hierarchical Bayesian Operator-induced Symbolic Regression Trees for Structural Learning of Scientific Expressions (arXiv:2509.19710) was awarded the 2026 Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (SBSS) Student Paper Award by the American Statistical Association.
2025
- Nov Preprint on Tangent approximation based variational inference for strongly super-Gaussian likelihoods submitted (arXiv).
- Nov GitHub release of TAVIE-SSG.
- Oct Talk on Bayesian Symbolic Regression for Structural Learning of Scientific Expressions at STAT CAFÉ, Texas A&M University.
- Sep Invited talk on SPINWAVE at the minisymposium Computational Methods for Multiscale and Multiphysics Problems during the 8th Annual SIAM Texas–Louisiana Workshop, Austin, TX.
- Sep Preprint on Bayesian Scientific Machine Learning for Structural Learning of Scientific Expressions submitted (arXiv).
- Sep First official GitHub release of HierBOSSS.
- May Graduate Intern in the Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2024
- Dec Talk on TAVIE: Tangent Approximation for Variational Inference in Different Exponential Families at IISA 2024.
- Nov Paper on Sparse Almost Perfect Mutually Unbiased Bases (APMUBs) published in the Journal of Statistical Theory and Practice (Journal).