Saayan Mitra

Principal Research Scientist

San Jose

Saayan is a Principal Research Scientist at Adobe Research, who currently focuses on harnessing the power of Large Language Models to build AI Assistants for Adobe’s products. His research is also involved in how to use contextual and behavioral data effectively for improving content. In the past, he has worked in the domain of recommendations and advertising. He has worked on multiple projects involving media formats, streaming and content protection as well. He received his PhD from Iowa State University in 2009, and has been a member of Adobe Research since then.

Publications

Shape My Moves: Text-Driven Shape-Aware Synthesis of Human Motions

Bhattacharya, U., Zhou, Y., Shen, Y., Huang, C., Mitra, S. (Jun. 13, 2025)

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR)

TAME-RD: Text Assisted Replication of Image Multi-Adjustments for Reverse Designing

Guhan, P., Bhattacharya, U., Sarkhel, S., Azizi, V., Chen, X., Mitra, S., Bera, A., Manocha, D. (Aug. 16, 2024)

The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024

HanDiffuser: Text-to-Image Generation With Realistic Hand Appearances

Narasimhaswamy, S., Bhattacharya, U., Chen, X., Dasgupta, I., Mitra, S., Hoai, M. (Jun. 19, 2024)

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

A/B testing under Interference with Partial Network Information

Shankar, S., Sinha, R., Chandak, Y., Mitra, S., Fiterau, M. (May. 2, 2024)

Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)

ToolChain*: Efficient Action Space Navigation in Large Language Models with A* Search

Zhuang, Y., Chen, X., Yu, T., Mitra, S., Bursztyn, V., Rossi, R., Sarkhel, S., Zhang, C. (Mar. 12, 2024)

ICLR 2024

Decentralized Personalized Online Federated Learning

Wu, R., Mitra, S., Chen, X., Rao, A. (Nov. 8, 2023)

IEEE Initernational Conference on Big Data

Flash: Concept Drift Adaptation in Federated Learning

Panchal, K., Choudhary, S., Mitra, S., Mukherjee, K., Sarkhel, S., Mitra, S., Guan, H. (Jul. 23, 2023)

Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

Direct Inference of Effect of Treatment (DIET) for a Cookieless World

Shankar, S., Sinha, R., Mitra, S., Sinha, M., Fiterau, M. (Apr. 25, 2023)

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)

Privacy Aware Experiments without Cookies

Shankar, S., Sinha, R., Mitra, S., Swaminathan, V., Mahadevan, S., Sinha, M. (Feb. 27, 2023)

WSDM: Web Search and Data Mining

SODA: Protecting Proprietary Information in On-Device Machine Learning Models

Atrey, A., Sinha, R., Mitra, S., Shenoy, P. (Feb. 22, 2023)

ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing

Collaborative Filtering Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Recommendations

Azizi, V., Mitra, S., Chen, X. (Dec. 17, 2022)

IEEE Initernational Conference on Big Data

Contextualized Styling of Images for Web Interfaces using Reinforcement Learning

Guhan, P., Mitra, S., Sarkhel, S., Petrangeli, S., Sinha, R., Swaminathan, V., Bera, A., Manocha, D. (Dec. 5, 2022)

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

DiPS: Differentiable Policy for Sketching in Recommender Systems

Ghosh, A., Mitra, S., Lan, A. (Jun. 30, 2022)

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Towards Preserving Server-Side Privacy of On-Device Models

Atrey, A., Sinha, R., Sarkhel, S., Mitra, S., Arbour, D., Maharaj, A., Shenoy, P. (Apr. 25, 2022)

The Web Conference

BOhance: Bayesian Optimization for Content Enhancement

Mittal, T., Swaminathan, V., Sarkhel, S., Sinha, R., Arbour, D., Mitra, S., Manocha, D. (Nov. 1, 2021)

IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM)

Metadata Matters in User Engagement Prediction

Chen, X., Mitra, S., Swaminathan, V. (Jul. 25, 2020)

International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Scaling DNN-based Video Analysis by Coarse-grained and Fine-grained Parallelism

Sinthong, P., Mahadik, K., Sarkhel, S., Mitra, S. (Jul. 6, 2020)

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

Optimal Bidding Strategy without Exploration in Real-time Bidding

Ghosh, A., Mitra, S., Sarkhel, S., Swaminathan, V. (Jan. 1, 2020)

SIAM International Conference on Data Mining

A Scalable Data Augmentation and Training Pipeline for Logo Detection

Guo, H., Swaminathan, V., Mitra, S. (Dec. 11, 2019)

Best Paper Award

IEEE ISM 2019

Scalable Bid Landscape Forecasting in Real-time Bidding

Ghosh, A., Mitra, S., Sarkhel, S., Xie, J., Wu, G., Swaminathan, V. (Sep. 16, 2019)

ECML-PKDD 2019

Training Streaming Factorization Machines with Alternating Least Squares

Mao, X., Mitra, S., Li, S. (Jul. 29, 2019)

ACM SIGIR 2019

Content-Based Effectiveness Prediction of Video Advertisements

Lou, Q., Sarkhel, S., Mitra, S., Swaminathan, V. (Dec. 10, 2018)

IEEE ISM 2018

Digital content recommendation system using implicit feedback data

Wu, G., Swaminathan, V., Mitra, S., Kumar, R. (Dec. 11, 2017)

IEEE BigData 2017

Feature Selection for FM-Based Context-Aware Recommendation Systems

Mao, X., Mitra, S., Swaminathan, V. (Dec. 11, 2017)

IEEE ISM 2017

Personalized Video Recommendations for Shared Accounts

Yang, S., Sarkhel, S., Mitra, S., Swaminathan, V. (Dec. 11, 2017)

IEEE ISM 2017

Context-aware video recommendation based on session progress prediction

Wu, G., Swaminathan, V., Mitra, S., Kumar, R. (Oct. 7, 2017)

IEEE ICME 2017

Context-Aware Video Recommendation using Session Progress

Wu, G., Swaminathan, V., Mitra, S., Kumar, R. (Jul. 10, 2017)

IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)

Designing a Universal Format for Encrypted Media

Swaminathan, V., Mitra, S., Wei, S. (Sep. 30, 2013)

in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Sep 2013, Sardinia, Italy

An Optimal Client Bu ffer Model for Multiplexing HTTP Streams

Mitra, S., Swaminathan, V. (Sep. 19, 2012)

In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Sep 2012, Banff, Canada

A Partial Encryption Scheme for AVC Video

Swaminathan, V., Mitra, S. (Jan. 14, 2012)

In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications (ESPA), Jan 2012, Las Vegas, NV

A Framework for Optimal Decentralized Service-Choreography

Mitra, S., Kumar, R., Basu, S. (Jul. 10, 2009)

In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), July 2009, Los Angeles, CA

Optimum Decentralized Choreography for Web Services Composition

Mitra, S., Kumar, R., Basu, S. (Jul. 11, 2008)

In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), July 2008, Honolulu, HI

Local and On-the-fly Choreography-based Web Service Composition

Mitra, S., Basu, S., Kumar, R. (Nov. 5, 2007)

In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Web Intelligence, Nov 2007, Femont, CA

Automated Choreographer Synthesis for Web Services Composition Using I/O Automata

Mitra, S., Kumar, R., Basu, S. (Jul. 9, 2007)

In ICWS '07: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services, July 2007, Salt Lake City, UT

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