Prof. Anirban Dasgupta

IIT Gadhinagar

Prof. Anirban Dasgupta is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT Gandhinagar. Prior to this, he was a Senior Scientist at Yahoo! Labs Sunnyvale. Anirban works on algorithmic problems for massive data sets, large scale machine learning, analysis of large social networks and randomized algorithms in general. He did his undergraduate studies at IIT Kharagpur and doctoral studies at Cornell University. He has also received the Google Faculty Research Award (2015), the Cisco University grant (2016), and the ICDT Best Newcomer Award (2016).

Prof. Sourangshu Bhattacharya

IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Sourangshu Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He was a Scientist at Yahoo! Labs from 2008 to 2013, where he was working on prediction of Click-through rates, Ad-targeting to customers, etc on the Rightmedia display ads exchange. He was a visiting scholar at the Helsinki University of Technology from January - May 2008. He received the B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from I.I.T. Roorkee in 2001, M.Tech. in computer science from I.S.I. Kolkata in 2003, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science & Automation, IISc Bangalore in 2008. He has many publications in top conferences and journals, including ICML, NIPS, WWW, ICDM, CIKM, etc. His current research interests include modeling influence in social networks, distributed machine learning, and representation learning.

NOC: Scalable Data Science, IIT Gadhinagar IIT Kharagpur