Saptarshi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD in 2026 from Texas A&M University, where he worked with Dr. Yang Ni and Dr. Raymond K. W. Wong, both of whom have been wonderful influences on his life. Earlier, he worked under the guidance of Dr. Amit Mitra on his master's thesis at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. In summer 2020, he was a research intern with Dr. Abhik Ghosh in the Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute. His research interests include Bayesian modelling, functional data analysis, graphical models, and causal discovery, with recent interests in transfer learning and domain adaptation. He joined the Mallick Lab in 2023 and continues to work with Professor Mallick as a research collaborator.