Malay Bhattacharyya is currently an Associate Professor of Machine Intelligence Unit, an Associate Member of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, and an Associate Member of Technology Innovation Hub on Data Science, Big Data Analytics, and Data Curation at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. He is a certified Design Thinker from MIT Sloan School of Management and holds a doctorate in Computer Science from Indian Statistical Institute. He has a couple of decades of teaching and research experience including short academic visits at Stanford University, University of Ljubljana, and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is currently serving as a member of the Assessment & Search Committee, ACM Publications Board. He served in The Lancet COVID-19 Commission: India Task Force during 2021-22.
His current research interests encompass Computation for Social Good and Computational Healthcare. He has published research studies in high-impact journals like Cell, Nature Medicine, The Lancet Microbe, The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, and top-notch conferences like IEEE ICDE, ACM CHI, ACM CSCW. His research has received generous funding from DRDO, Google, DST and MeitY, Government of India, totaling about INR 4 Crores (~ USD 0.5 Million). He is a recipient of the Impact Scholars Award from Google (2021), Young Engineer Award from INAE (2018), Young Engineers Award from IEI (2016-17), BIRD Award from Bioclues Organization (2015), Young Scientist Award from ISCA (2013-14), and won several best paper and best reviewer awards. He became an INAE Young Associate in 2018 and a Sir Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellow in 2015-16. He advises NGOs like MDCRC, mentors Startups like Assessli, reinforces Talent Development to companies like Tata Steel, and is an Affiliated Academic of climaTRACES Lab, University of Cambridge.