Aritra Mitra — Academic Site

Education

Master’s and Bechelor's (Integrated) Program — Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2020-2025
B.Tech.-M.Tech. (Dual-Degree) in Computer Science and Engineering. Department Rank: 2

Higher Secondary — Behala Aryya Vidyamandir, 2020. School Rank: 1, State Rank: 14

Secondary — Behala Aryya Vidyamandir, 2018. School Rank: 2, State Rank: 37

Internships

Summer Research Fellow, BrAIN Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Saarbrücken, Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Mariya Toneva
Duration: May 2023 - August 2023
Created a web-based quiz platform to collect data from individuals, which is then used to deduce remembrance patterns in humans as compared to LLMs.

Systems Intern, QE Securities Private Limited, Gurugram, India
Duration: May 2024 - July 2024
Optimized the time taken to read and decompress market data from exchanges, which are used to test strategies for high-frequency trading, using C libraries aio and io_uring, and hardware-level optimizations, for single-threaded as well as multi-threaded cases.

Research Intern, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Supervisor: Prof. Partha Pratim Das
Sponsor: Ministry of Education, Government of India
Duration: May 2022 - July 2022
Created a web application for course management, with access control systems to manage multiple device logins, integrated IDE for coding exercises, and data collection from the IDE to classify mistakes by learners.

Achievements

Senior Scholar with rank 1, Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS) Examination 2020.
Rank 8, West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination (WBJEE) 2020, amongst ~150,000 candidates.

Felicitated by Government of West Bengal for this rank.

Rank 1062, Joint Entrance Examination - Advanced (JEE-Advanced) 2020, amongst ~120,000 shortlisted candidates.
Rank 1023, Joint Entrance Examination - Main (JEE-Main) 2020, amongst ~1,000,000 candidates.
Rank 85, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE-CS) 2024.
Rank 30, Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana - SA (KVPY-SA) 2018, amongst ~100,000 candidates.
Junior Scholar, Jagadis Bose National Science Talent Search (JBNSTS), 2018.
Scholar, National Talent Search Examination (NTSE), 2018, with state rank 14 in round 1.

Publications

Exploring Usefulness of C Comments with Silver-Standard Machine Learning Models — Aritra Mitra. Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE), 2024.

Assessing the Utility of C Comments with SVM and Naïve Bayes Classifier — Aritra Mitra. Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE), 2023.

Manuscripts

Leveraging Design-Aware Context in Large Language Models for Code Comment Generation — Aritra Mitra, Srijoni Majumdar, Anamitra Mukhopadhyay, Partha Pratim Das, Paul D Clough, Partha Pratim Chakrabarti. Accepted, New Ideas and Emerging Research (NIER) Track, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2026.