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Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder is an AI researcher whose work spans conversational agents, scientific discovery, and AI safety. He earned a master's in data science and machine learning at IIT Kharagpur, coauthored the 2020 book Practical Natural Language Processing, and completed a PhD in computer science and engineering at UC San Diego in 2023. At Ai2, he coauthored DiscoveryWorld, AutoDS, and CodeScientist; his position paper on AI safety and the future of work won ICML's 2025 Outstanding Position Paper award. As of October 2026, he is a Senior Research Scientist at Ai2 who leads research on autonomous data-driven discovery for Asta and works with Providence researchers on AutoDiscovery.

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Timeline

  1. 2015–2017

    A master's at IIT Kharagpur

    He earns an MS in data science and machine learning at IIT Kharagpur from 2015 to 2017, where Prof. Animesh Mukherjee advises him in CNeRG.

  2. 2017–2018

    Research Engineer at Walmart Labs

    At Walmart Labs, he works as a research engineer from 2017 to 2018, developing a neural multimodal attribute-tagging framework that uses product descriptions and images. The work produces two US patents and an arXiv technical report.

  3. 2019–2021

    Google AI and Team Bernard

    At Google AI in summer 2019, he develops representation-learning methods for extracting information from form-like documents; the work appears as an ACL 2020 long paper. He leads UC San Diego's Team Bernard in the 2019–20 Amazon Alexa Prize, where the team becomes a finalist and receives $250,000 to research dialogue systems. He interns at Microsoft Research in 2020 and Facebook AI Research in 2021, developing clarification and personalized dialogue systems.

  4. 2020–2022

    Practical Natural Language Processing

    He coauthors Practical Natural Language Processing with Sowmya Vajjala, Anuj Gupta, and Harshit Surana for O'Reilly Media in 2020. He receives a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in 2020 and an Adobe Research Fellowship in 2022. UC San Diego recognizes his work with the CSE Award for Research Excellence in 2022.

  5. 2023

    PhD and research role at Ai2

    He completes a PhD in computer science and engineering at UC San Diego in 2023 with a thesis titled User-centric Natural Language Processing. He joins Ai2's Team Aristo as a research scientist in 2023.

  6. 2024

    DiscoveryWorld for scientific agents

    He coauthors DiscoveryWorld, a virtual environment for benchmarking agents through full cycles of scientific discovery, at NeurIPS 2024. Its tasks require agents to form hypotheses, design and run experiments, analyze results, and act on conclusions.

  7. 2025

    AutoDS, CodeScientist and an ICML award

    At Ai2, he coauthors AutoDS, a prototype engine for autonomous, open-ended scientific discovery, in 2025. CodeScientist uses genetic search over research articles and codeblocks to construct ideas and experiments. His position paper with Sanchaita Hazra and Tuhin Chakrabarty, AI Safety Should Prioritize the Future of Work, wins ICML's 2025 Outstanding Position Paper award.

  8. As of October 2026

    Senior Research Scientist at Ai2

    As of October 2026, he is a Senior Research Scientist at Ai2 and leads research on autonomous data-driven discovery for Asta. In September 2026, he works with Providence researchers on AutoDiscovery, which generates and tests hypotheses across The Cancer Genome Atlas data.

Career

  1. Since 2023Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)Research Scientist
  2. 2021FAIR (Meta)Intern
  3. 2020Microsoft ResearchIntern
  4. 2019Google
  5. 2017–2018WalmartResearch Engineer

Education

  1. 2023University of California, San DiegoPhD in computer science and engineering
  2. 2017Indian Institute of Technology KharagpurMS in data science and machine learning

From the biography.

  1. Google alumni have founded or led 133 other organizations, more than any other AI labIncludes Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder. We estimate that alumni of 17 major AI labs went on to found or lead 350 other organizations, including 226 they founded, and we trace 472 career moves directly between 23 labs since 2010.
  2. Of 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google, 446 work there nowIncludes Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder. Our estimates of where the 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google and Google DeepMind work now: 446 at Google and 452 across 278 other organizations.
  3. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  4. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Background - Bodhisattwa Majumder majumderb.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Book - Bodhisattwa Majumder majumderb.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Bodhisattwa Majumder - Allen Institute for AI majumderb.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. CSE Department Awards cse.ucsd.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. DiscoveryWorld: A Virtual Environment for Developing and Evaluating Automated Scientific Discovery Agents proceedings.neurips.cc. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. AutoDS: A prototype engine for autonomous, open-ended scientific discovery allenai.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. CodeScientist: End-to-End Semi-Automated Scientific Discovery with Code-based Experimentation aclanthology.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. ICML 2025 Awards icml.cc. Checked 20 October 2026.
  9. Ai2 Newsletter | September 2026 allenai.org. Checked 20 October 2026.