diff --git a/data_aug/contrastive_learning_dataset.py b/data_aug/contrastive_learning_dataset.py
index e1777e4c..4094cd6b 100644
--- a/data_aug/contrastive_learning_dataset.py
+++ b/data_aug/contrastive_learning_dataset.py
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ def get_dataset(self, name, n_views):
                                                           transform=ContrastiveLearningViewGenerator(
                                                               self.get_simclr_pipeline_transform(96),
                                                               n_views),
-                                                          download=True)}
+                                                          download=True)
+                                                          }
 
         try:
             dataset_fn = valid_datasets[name]
diff --git a/exceptions/exceptions.py b/exceptions/exceptions.py
index a7370841..48aa205c 100644
--- a/exceptions/exceptions.py
+++ b/exceptions/exceptions.py
@@ -8,3 +8,6 @@ class InvalidBackboneError(BaseSimCLRException):
 
 class InvalidDatasetSelection(BaseSimCLRException):
     """Raised when the choice of dataset is invalid."""
+
+class InvalidCheckpointPath(BaseSimCLRException):
+    """Raised when the path of the checkpoint is invalid"""
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diff --git a/run.py b/run.py
index e2424c6a..ef260a9f 100644
--- a/run.py
+++ b/run.py
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
                     help='model architecture: ' +
                          ' | '.join(model_names) +
                          ' (default: resnet50)')
+parser.add_argument('-ckpt', default=None, type=str, metavar='CKPT', 
+                    help='the checkpoint to resume training')
 parser.add_argument('-j', '--workers', default=12, type=int, metavar='N',
                     help='number of data loading workers (default: 32)')
 parser.add_argument('--epochs', default=200, type=int, metavar='N',
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ def main():
         num_workers=args.workers, pin_memory=True, drop_last=True)
 
     model = ResNetSimCLR(base_model=args.arch, out_dim=args.out_dim)
+    ckpt = args.ckpt
 
     optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters(), args.lr, weight_decay=args.weight_decay)
 
@@ -81,7 +84,7 @@ def main():
 
     #  It’s a no-op if the 'gpu_index' argument is a negative integer or None.
     with torch.cuda.device(args.gpu_index):
-        simclr = SimCLR(model=model, optimizer=optimizer, scheduler=scheduler, args=args)
+        simclr = SimCLR(model=model, optimizer=optimizer, scheduler=scheduler, args=args, ckpt=ckpt)
         simclr.train(train_loader)
 
 
diff --git a/simclr.py b/simclr.py
index e022dca6..f108e03a 100644
--- a/simclr.py
+++ b/simclr.py
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 from torch.cuda.amp import GradScaler, autocast
 from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
 from tqdm import tqdm
-from utils import save_config_file, accuracy, save_checkpoint
+from exceptions.exceptions import InvalidCheckpointPath
+from utils import save_config_file, accuracy, save_checkpoint, load_checkpoint
 
 torch.manual_seed(0)
 
@@ -60,12 +61,19 @@ def train(self, train_loader):
 
         # save config file
         save_config_file(self.writer.log_dir, self.args)
-
-        n_iter = 0
+        n_iter, start_epochs, end_epochs = 0, 0, self.args.epochs
+
+        if(self.args.ckpt):
+            try:
+                self.model, start_epochs = load_checkpoint(self.model, self.args.ckpt)
+                end_epochs = end_epochs + start_epochs
+            except:
+                InvalidCheckpointPath()
+            
         logging.info(f"Start SimCLR training for {self.args.epochs} epochs.")
-        logging.info(f"Training with gpu: {self.args.disable_cuda}.")
+        logging.info(f"Training with gpu: {self.args.gpu_index}.")
 
-        for epoch_counter in range(self.args.epochs):
+        for epoch_counter in range(start_epochs, end_epochs):
             for images, _ in tqdm(train_loader):
                 images = torch.cat(images, dim=0)
 
diff --git a/utils.py b/utils.py
index cf92cbd8..cdf22aa2 100644
--- a/utils.py
+++ b/utils.py
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@
 import yaml
 
 
+def load_checkpoint(model, filepath):
+    if(os.path.exists(filepath)):
+        ckpt = torch.load(filepath)
+        model.load_state_dict(ckpt['state_dict'])
+        epoch = ckpt['epoch']
+        return model, epoch    
+
+
 def save_checkpoint(state, is_best, filename='checkpoint.pth.tar'):
     torch.save(state, filename)
     if is_best: