I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Patna. My research areas include Network Science, Graph Machine Learning, Graph Mining, Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Multimodal Machine Learning, and Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis. Applications mainly include Computational Social Systems, Journalism, Disaster, Healthcare, Crimes on the Web, and Intelligent Transportation Systems. I am also a member of the Data Analysis and Network Science (DANeS) group at IIT Patna.
Current PhD students
| Name | Research Area |
|---|---|
| Shruti Saxena | Deep Learning Techniques for Network Alignment |
| Rahul Kumar | Spatio-temporal Traffic Data Modeling |
| Medhashree Ghosh | Predictive Modeling of Temporal Transaction Networks |
| Asres Temam Abagissa | Real-time Event Detection from Social Media Streams |
| Shivani Gupta | Predictive Modeling on Multimodal Clinical Health Data |
| Deekhsha Chaudhary | LLM for Graphs and Graphs for LLMs |
Former PhD students
| Name | Thesis title | First position | Current affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roshni Chakraborty | Social Media Analysis Techniques for Improving the Quality of Journalism | PostDoc Fellow, University of Aalborg, Denmark | IIIT Gwalior, India |
| Shalini Priya | Analyzing Social Media Feeds for Crisis Response Coordination | PostDoc Fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | IIT Roorkee, India |
| Pooja Km | Unsupervised Graph Based Name Disambiguation Approaches for Bibliographic Records | PostDoc Fellow, National University of Singapore | IIIT Allahabad, India |
| Manish Bhanu | Techniques for Predicting Taxi Demand Across Regions in a City | PostDoc Fellow, National University of Singapore | Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, India |
| Akash Yadav | Worker Assignment Problem in Crowdsourcing Environment | Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, India | Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, India |
| Saswata Roy | Detection and Spread Analysis of Misinformation on Social Media | KIIT, India | IIIT Gwalior, India |
| Abha Kumari | Controller Placement in Software-defined Networking | Bhagalpur College of Engineering, India | Bhagalpur College of Engineering, India |
| Saurabh Sharma | Efficient Techniques for Knowledge Distillation | PostDoc Fellow, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India |