Swapnanil Mukherjee

About Me

I am a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research India working with Vineeth N Balasubramaniam and Tanuja Ganu. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Ashoka University where I was fortunate to have worked with some amazing people 1, 2, 3 . My current research interests are in the intersection of multimodal learning and faithful and verifiable reasoning. I am also interested in understanding commonsense abilities in foundation models.

Previously, I was a research intern at the Precog Lab, IIIT Hyderabad where I worked with Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Tanuja Ganu on benchmarking modality bias and in large omni/multi-modal models (MLLMs). I have also worked with the TR^2AIL Lab under Prof. Somak Aditya, interned at Sarvam, KCDH-Ashoka, and the Mphasis AI & Applied Tech Lab at Ashoka. My undergraduate thesis was on verifiable multimodal reasoning supervised by Prof. Debayan Gupta (Ashoka University) and Prof. Somak Aditya (IIT Kharagpur). For more details, check out my CV, or look at my research.

Aside from work, I occassionally enjoy obsessing over finding the perfect frame 📷. I also enjoy lifting 🏋️, have an alarming number of Spotify 🎧 minutes, and have recently started bouldering 🧗. Reach out to me if you find any of these interesting, or just want to chat!