Prof. Tanmoy Chakraborty

IIT Delhi

Professor Tanmoy Chakraborty holds the Rajiv Khemani Young Faculty Chair in AI and an Associate Professor at IIT Delhi. He leads the Laboratory for Computational Social Systems (LCS2), a research group that primarily focuses on building economical, interpretable and faithful language models and applying them specifically to mental health and cyber-informatics. He served as visiting professor at MPI Saarbrucken, TU Munich and TU Darmstadt. Tanmoy did his PhD as a Google PhD Scholar at IIT Kharagpur and postdoc at University of Maryland. Tanmoy has received numerous faculty fellowships, including the Ramanujan, DAAD, Humboldt, ELISE, PECFAR, and several faculty awards from industries like Google, LinkedIn, JP Morgan, IBM, and Adobe. He has authored two textbooks -- "Social Network Analysis" and "Introduction to Large Language Models", on which he has been offering NPTEL courses. He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker. More details may be found at tanmoychak.com.

Prof. Soumen Chakraborti

IIT Bombay

Prof.Soumen Chakrabarti is a Professor of Computer Science at IIT Bombay. He works on linking unstructured text to knowledge bases and exploiting these links for better search and ranking. Other interests include link formation and influence propagation in social networks, and personalized proximity search in graphs. He has published extensively in WWW, ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGKDD, VLDB, SIGIR, ICDE and other conferences. He won the best paper award at WWW 1999. He was coauthor on the best student paper at ECML 2008. His work on keyword search in databases got the 10-year influential paper award at ICDE 2012. He got his PhD from University of California, Berkeley and worked on Clever Web search and Focused Crawling at IBM Almaden Research Center. He has also worked at Carnegie-Mellon University and Google. He received the Bhatnagar Prize in 2014 and the Jagadis Bose Fellowship in 2019.

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