My Research interests revolve around Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Fairness aspects of various AI Domains.

Research Papers

PGraphDTA: Improving DT Interaction Prediction using Protein Language Models & Contact Maps
Rakesh Bal*, Yijia Xiao, Wei Wang
37th Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS-23) Workshop on AI for Science

Two-Sided Fairness in Non-Personalised Recommendations
Aadi Swadipto Mondal*, Rakesh Bal*, Sayan Sinha*, Gourab K Patro
35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21) Student Papers and Demonstrations

Analysing the Extent of Misinformation in Cancer Related Tweets
Rakesh Bal*, Sayan Sinha*, Swastika Dutta, Rishabh Joshi, Sayan Ghosh, Ritam Dutt
14th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2020)

Other Research Projects

  • Modelling Bahdanau Attention using RL and Election methods
    (along with Sayan Sinha and Sanskar Agarwal)
    IIT Kharagpur (Aug. 2019 - Mar. 2020)
  • Incorporating Prior Domain Knowledge for Stock Prediction using Textual Data
    (under guidance of Annervaz K M and Prof. Ambedkar Dukkipati)
    Accenture Tech. Labs, Bangalore and IISc, Bangalore (May 2019 - Aug. 2019)

Also, you can have a look at my CV for an overview of my other research projects.