Chanda is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. Debayan Gupta and co-supervision of Dr. Indra Deep Mastan (IIT BHU). Her thesis centers on developing techniques for cross-modal similarity modelling and exploring their applications. Her broader research interests include Computer Vision, Multimodal Learning, Robust Representation Learning, and Generative AI.
Before starting her Ph.D., she worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at IIT Gandhinagar. She also gained industry experience as a Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services.
She holds an M.Tech. in Computer Science from Banasthali Vidyapith and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak.
In her free time, she enjoys reading non-fiction, particularly self-help books, going for walks, and listening to music.