People

Researchers and students working across forecasting, statistical machine learning and real-world applications.

ForeML Lab group photograph
ForeML Lab · Abu Dhabi

Investigators

Tanujit Chakraborty

Tanujit Chakraborty

Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Sorbonne Université Abu Dhabi

Health AI Statistical Machine Learning Generative Deep Learning Spatiotemporal Forecasting

Current Members

Grace Younes

Grace Younes

Co-PI, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Sorbonne Université Abu Dhabi

Symbolic ML
Madhurima Panja

Madhurima Panja

Co-PI, Researcher

SAFIR, Sorbonne Université Abu Dhabi

Time Series Forecasting Deep Learning
Rajdeep Pathak

Rajdeep Pathak

PhD

Sorbonne Université

Funded by SAFIR Grant

November 2025 – present

Geometric Deep Learning
Aya Mourad

Aya Mourad

PhD

Sorbonne Université

Jointly with Dr. Motasem Alrahabi

September 2024 – present

AI in NLP
Magzhan Bimoldan

Magzhan Bimoldan

PhD

Kazakh National University

Co-supervised with Dr. Kasenov Syrym

August 2025 – present

ML for Risk Assessment
Rahul Goswami

Rahul Goswami

PhD

IIT Guwahati

jointly with Dr. Palash Ghosh

2021 – present

ML for Data Irregularities
Ali Rammal

Ali Rammal

PhD

Sorbonne Université

jointly with Pr. Stéphane Hatem

October 2025 – present

AI in Health
Kirtivardhan Singh

Kirtivardhan Singh

PhD

BITS Pilani

Jointly with Dr. Sunny K Singh

2025 – present

ML for Volatility Forecasting
Nilasha Majumdar

Nilasha Majumdar

Research Assistant

SAFIR, Sorbonne Université Abu Dhabi.

Aug 2026 - present

Spatiotemporal Deep Learning
Yueyan Zhang

Yueyan Zhang

PhD

Sorbonne Université

jointly with Dr. Grace Younes

Nov 2026 – present

Neuro-Symbolic AI
Muhsina V S

Muhsina V S

Research Assistant

SAFIR, Sorbonne Université Abu Dhabi.

Jointly with Dr. Grace Younes

Oct 2026 – present

Probabilistic Forecasting
Sentia Al Maqatish

Sentia Al Maqatish

MS Thesis

CIDSAI, NYU Abu Dhabi.

Oct 2026 - present

Mobile Health Time Series

Alumni (PhD/Postdoc)

Shovon Sengupta

Shovon Sengupta

PhD

BITS Pilani, Hyderabad

Jointly with Dr. Sunny K Singh.

May 2021 – February 2026

Current: Director at Fidelity Investments

Macroeconomic Forecasting and Machine Learning
Madhab Barman

Madhab Barman

Postdoc

Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi

October 2024 – May 2025

Current: Postdoc at IIM Bangalore

Epidemic-guided Deep Learning
Scarlett Kelly

Scarlett Kelly

Visiting PhD (University of Ottawa)

Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi

January 2024 – March 2024

Current: Senior Analyst, Government of Canada

ChatGPT — the Technology, Issues, and Improvement
Shraddha M. Naik

Shraddha M. Naik

Postdoc

Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi

April 2024 – September 2024

Current: Assistant Prof. at the University of Birmingham, Dubai

Imbalanced Learning and Generative AI

Former BS/MS thesis students

Donia Besher

Donia Besher

BS Mathematics

Sorbonne Université

Funded by SAFIR

August 2024 – July 2026

Current: MS-PhD at KAUST

Probabilistic time-series forecasting
Karim Bekka

Karim Bekka

BS Physics

Sorbonne Université

May 2026 – June 2026

Current: MS

Travel Demand Simulation
Aarushi K Sharma

Aarushi K Sharma

MS thesis

VIT Vellore

Jointly with Dr. Jisha Francis.

2024–2025

Current: Research Assistant at IIM Ranchi

Macroeconomic Forecasting
Agni Rakshit

Agni Rakshit

MTech OR thesis

NIT Durgapur

Jointly with Pr. Gautam Bandyopadhyay.

2023–2024

Current: FeedSense AI

ML for Financial Option Pricing
Yusuf Hasan

Yusuf Hasan

MS thesis

IISER Kolkata

Jointly with Dr. Kripabandhu Ghosh.

2023–2024

Current: MBA at XLRI

ML for Time Series Forecasting
Suman Grewal

Suman Grewal

MS Mathematics thesis

NIT Surat

Jointly with Dr. Indira P. Debnath.

2020–2021

Current: Goldman Sachs

Compounded Distributions

Capstone project students

Anusha Tomar

BTech AI

MSIT Delhi

August 2026 – September 2026

Soumyajoy Kundu

MSc Data Science

CMI Chennai

September 2025 – July 2026

Current: PhD student at IISc Bangalore

Ojas Modak

BTech ISE

IIT Kharagpur

July 2025 – September 2025

Current: Data Scientist at Fidelity Investments, India

Shinjini Paul

MSc Mathematics

IISER Pune

May 2024 – December 2024

Current: PhD student at Leiden University

Saee Kamat

MSc Statistics

IIT Kanpur

May 2024 – September 2024

Current: PhD student at Iowa State University

Yash Jakhmola

MSc Mathematics

IISER Kolkata

July 2023 – June 2024

Anubhab Biswas

MSc Statistics

University of Hyderabad

July 2023 – April 2024

Current: PhD student at SUPSI, Switzerland

Aindrila Garai

MSc Statistics

IIT Kanpur

May 2023 – September 2023

Current: PhD student at the University of Bristol

Anurag Dutta

BTech CS

GCETT, West Bengal

March 2023 – May 2023

Current: Research Assistant at IIT Kharagpur

Padavala Jaya Sai Hrithik

BTech CSE

Matrusri Engineering College

January 2022 – July 2022

Current: MS CS, University of Windsor

Bisakh Banerjee

MSTAT

ISI Kolkata

September 2021 – December 2021

Current: PhD Statistics at Michigan State University

Tirna Mahajan

MSc Statistics

Kalyani University

August 2020 – October 2020

Current: Data Scientist at Ford, India

Tejasvi Arora

MSQE

ISI Kolkata

August 2020 – October 2020

Current: Credit Risk Quant at BlackRock

Poulami Chowdhury

MSc Statistics

Presidency University, Kolkata

March 2020 – May 2020

Current: Manager at HSBC, India

Sayak Banerjee

MSc Biostatistics

IIPS Mumbai

June 2019 – August 2019

Current: Senior Analyst at Citi, India

Shramana Bhattacharya

MSc Biostatistics

IIPS Mumbai

June 2019 – August 2019

Current: Analyst at Citi, India

Gauri Kamat

MS Statistics

Duke University

April 2019 – July 2019

Current: PhD student at Brown University

Kaumil Trivedi

BTech CSE

Gujarat Technological University

February 2019 – May 2019

Current: MS at SFU, Canada

Zubia Mansoor

BSc Statistics

St. Xavier's College, Kolkata

July 2018 – October 2018

Current: MS at SFU, Canada