Suman Kalyan Maity
IBM PhD Fellow (2016 - present)

Microsoft Research India PhD Fellow (2014-2016)







My Fav Quotes

"Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler"

- Albert Einstein

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom"

- Aristotle

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."

- J.K. Rowling

Education Background

M.S., Computer Science & Engineering, July 2011 - Feb. 2014
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA): 9.28/10

B.Tech., Computer Science & Engineering, Aug. 2007 - July 2011
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA): 9.22/10

Higher Secondary Examination, June 2007
West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHSE)
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Purulia, WB, India
Marks Obtained: 83.2%

Secondary Examination, June 2005
West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE)
Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith, Purulia, WB, India
Marks Obtained: 93.63%

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistantships
Programming & Data Structure Lab (CS19001) under the instruction of Prof. Rajib Mall and Prof. Raghunath Tiwari in Autumn 2011-2012.

Programming & Data Structure Lab (CS19001) under the instruction of Prof. Sudebkumar Prashant Pal in Spring 2011-2012.

Programming & Data Structure Theory (CS11001) under the instruction of Prof. Rajat Subhra Chakroborty in Autumn 2012-2013.

Complex Networks Theory (CS60078) under the instruction of Prof. Animesh Mukherjee in Spring 2012-2013.

Discrete Structures (CS21001) under the instruction of Prof. Animesh Mukherjee in Autumn 2013-2014.

Information Retrieval (CS60092) under the instruction of Prof. Sudeshna Sarkar in Spring 2013-2014.

Social Computing (CS60017) under the instruction of Prof. Pawan Goyal and Prof. Animesh Mukherjee in Autumn 2014-2015.

Complex Networks Theory (CS60078) under the instruction of Prof. Animesh Mukherjee in Spring 2014-2015.

Awards and achievements

  • SIGCHI Gary Marsden Fund to attend CSCW 2017 at Portland, USA

  • Awarded IBM PhD Fellowship 2016-2017

  • Best paper Honorable Mention Award at CSCW 2016 for our paper "#Bieber + #Blast = #BieberBlast: Early prediction of popular hashtag compounds"

  • Google India travel grant to attend CSCW 2016 at San Francisco, USA.

  • ACM India-IARCS travel grant, International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP) and IBM travel award for attending HICSS 2016 at Kauai, HI, USA.

  • Google India and Flipkart Internet Pvt. Ltd. travel grant to attend ICWSM 2015 at Oxford, UK.

  • Selected for Microsoft TechVista 2015 for PhD poster presentation (January, 2015)

  • Awarded Microsoft Research India PhD Fellowship (June, 2014)

  • ACM SIGMETRICS and COMPUTER PERFORMANCE travel grant to attend IFIP WG 7.3 PERFORMANCE 2014 at Turin, Italy

  • Google India travel grant to attend SOCIALCOM 2013 at Washington DC, USA.

  • Travel grants from UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy and Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur to attend SOCIALCOM 2012 at Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  • Travel grants from MPI-PKS, Dresden, Germany and Department of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur to attend MAPCON 2012 at Dresden, Germany.

  • Referee of Physics Letters A., Nuerocomputing, HICSS-49, HICSS-51, KNOSYS

  • ACM student travel grant to attend ACM SIGCOMM 2010 Conference at New Delhi, India.

  • Secured a state rank of 32 in Secondary Examination, 2005.