About Me

Hello! I am Poulomi Bhattacharya, a PhD scholar in the Trustworthy BiometraVision Lab, in the Department of Data Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal.

My research interests are focused on Privacy and Security in AI, with a specialization in Image and Video Deepfake Generation and Detection. Alongside Computer Vision, my expertise spans across Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Cyber Security.

News

Jun 2026
Our research work has been accepted in the WiML Symposium at ICML 2026! 🎉
Feb 2026
Two of our research works have been accepted at the EGSAI Workshop, AAAI 2026:
  • "Breaking the Deepfake Chain: Rethinking Phylogeny for Robust Detection"
    P. Bhattacharya, A. Agarwal
  • "One Fake Among Many: A Multi-Attack Dataset for Group-Photo Face Tampering Detection"
    S. Borade, P. Bhattacharya, A. Agarwal

My Achievements

1.
Received InCode student travel support to attend the prestigious top-tier computer vision conference, CVPR (2025).
2.
Awarded 1 Gold and 1 Silver Medal in Master’s of Sciences in Applied Mathematics from IIEST Shibpur, Howrah (2024).
3.
Qualified for GATE with a score of 498 (2023).
4.
Awarded 3 Gold Medals in Bachelor of Sciences in Mathematics from Banaras Hindu University (2022).

Publications

Traces Left Behind: Deepfake Detection Under the Lens of Iterative Generation
P. Bhattacharya, A. Agarwal, N. Ratha
CVPR Workshops, 2026
Guarding Digital Identity: Attention-Guided Fusion for Detecting Forged ID Documents
[paper]
G. Surendra, P. Bhattacharya, A. Agarwal
AAAI Student Abstract, 2026
Q-MoFusion: A Quantum Classifier for Mosquito Species Classification
[paper]
V. Kumar, A. Chanda, P. Bhattacharya, A. Agarwal
AAAI Student Abstract, 2026
Gesture Recognition for Emergencies: Dataset and Cross-Condition Analysis
[paper]
J. Sinha, P. Bhattacharya, A. Agarwal
IEEE FG, 2025
Identity in the Blood Relation: Unraveling the Complexity of Morph Detection in Kinship Biometrics
[paper]
S. Srivastav, P. Bhattacharya, A. Agarwal, N. Ratha
PFATCV @ BMVC, 2025

Education

2024 — Present

Ph.D. in Data Science

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal

CGPA: 8.50
2022 — 2024

M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics

Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur

CGPA: 9.79
2019 — 2022

Undergraduate (B.Sc.) in Mathematics

Banaras Hindu University

CGPA: 9.46
2019

Intermediate (+2)

Umarani Gorai Mahila Kalyan Girls’ High School

92.80%
2017

High School

Umarani Gorai Mahila Kalyan Girls’ High School

90.57%