Soumajit PramanikSoumajit PramanikI am presently working as a 'Post Doctoral Researcher' at the Department D5 (Database and Information Systems) of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII), Saarbrücken, Germany under Professor Gerhard Weikum, since July, 2019. Prior to that, I have been a 'Visiting Scholar' at the same group since November, 2018. Here, I am exploring advanced question-answering over knowledge graphs and text corpora.
I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, in June, 2019 (thesis submitted in October, 2018). My supervisor was Dr. Bivas Mitra. There, I was an active member of the Complex Network Research Group (CNeRG). My Ph.D. work mostly focused on studying different structural and functional properties of large scale multilayer social networks and designing various recommender systems for the benefit of the users belonging to those networks.
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PUBLICATIONS [DBLP][Google Scholar] [Back to top]
Full/Short Papers
2019
Soumajit Pramanik, Rajarshi Haldar, Anand Kumar, Sayan Pathak and Bivas Mitra, "Deep Learning driven Venue Recommender for Event-based Social Networks", Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE, April, 2019.
Soumajit Pramanik, Surya Teja Gora, Ravi Sundaram, Niloy Ganguly and Bivas Mitra, "On the Migration of Researchers across Scientific Domains", The 13th International AAAI Conference On Web And Social Media (ICWSM), Munich, Germany, June 11-14, 2019. (accepted)
2018
2017
Soumajit Pramanik, Qinna Wang, Maximilien Danisch, Jean-Loup Guillaume and Bivas Mitra, "Modeling Cascade Formation in Twitter amidst Mentions and Retweets", Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), Springer, August, 2017.
2016
Soumajit Pramanik, Midhun Gundapuneni, Sayan Pathak and Bivas Mitra, "Can I Foresee the Success of My Meetup group?", IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), San Francisco, CA, USA, August 18-21, 2016.
Soumajit Pramanik, Midhun Gundapuneni, Sayan Pathak and Bivas Mitra, "Predicting Group Success in Meetup", The 10th International AAAI Conference On Web And Social Media (ICWSM), Cologne, Germany, May 17-20, 2016. (Short Paper)
2015
Soumajit Pramanik, Pranay Hasan Yerra and Bivas Mitra, paper on "Whom-to-Interact: Does Conference Networking Boost Your Citation Count?", The 2nd IKDD (India chapter of ACM SIGKDD) Conference on Data Sciences (CoDS), Bangalore, India, March 18-21, 2015.
2012
Amiya Halder, Soumajit Pramanik, paper on "An Unsupervised Dynamic Image Segmentation using Fuzzy Hopfield Neural Network based Genetic Algorithm", International Journal of Computer Sciences Issues (IJCSI) Vol 9, Issue 2, No 2, March 2012.
2011
Amiya Halder, Soumajit Pramanik, Arindam Kar, paper on "Dynamic Image Segmentation using Fuzzy C-Means based Genetic Algorithm", International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA) Volume 28- No.6, August 2011.
Amiya Halder, Soumajit Pramanik, Swastik Pal, Nilabha Chatterjee and Arindam Kar, paper on "Edge Detection: A Statistical approach", The 3rd International Conference on Electronics ComputerTechnology (ICECT), Kanyakumari, India, April 8-10, 2011.
2010
Amiya Halder, Soumajit Pramanik, Swastik Pal, Nilabha Chatterjee and Arindam Kar, paper on "Modal and Mutational Agglomeration based Automatic Color Image Segmentation", International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV), Hong Kong, China, December 28 - 30, 2010.
Posters, Workshops & Doctoral Symposiums
2015
Soumajit Pramanik, Payal Priyadarshini, Sayan Pathak and Bivas mitra, "Analyzing the Interplay between Online and Offline Communication: A Case Study on Meetup", Physics of Multilayered Interconnected Networks (PhyMultiNet) Satellite Workshop, NetSci, Zaragoza, Spain, June 1-5, 2015. (Workshop)
Soumajit Pramanik, Maximilien Danisch, Qinna Wang, Jean-Loup Guillaume and Bivas Mitra, "Analyzing the Impact of Mentioning in Twitter", NetSci, Zaragoza, Spain, June 1-5, 2015. (Poster)
Soumajit Pramanik, Pranay Hasan Yerra and Bivas Mitra, "Analyzing the Impact of Interactions on Information Flow in Citation Network", NetSci, Zaragoza, Spain, June 1-5, 2015. (Poster)
Soumajit Pramanik, Maximilien Danisch, Qinna Wang, Jean-Loup Guillaume and Bivas Mitra, "Analyzing the Impact of Mentioning in Twitter", Network of Networks (NetONets) Satellite Workshop, NetSci, Zaragoza, Spain, June 1-5, 2015. (Workshop)
Soumajit Pramanik, Maximilien Danisch, Qinna Wang and Bivas Mitra, “An Empirical Approach towards an Efficient 'Whom to Mention?' Twitter app”, Twitter for Research, 1st International & Interdisciplinary Conference, Lyon, France, April 24, 2015. (Workshop)
Mayank Singh, Soumajit Pramanik and Tanmoy Chakraborty, poster on "PubIndia: A Framework for Analyzing Indian Research Publications in Computer Sciences", Xerox Research Centre India (XRCI) Open, Bangalore, India, January 22-23, 2015. (Poster)
2014
Soumajit Pramanik and Bivas Mitra, "Analyzing the Importance of Socialization on the Evolution of Scientific Citations and Collaborations: A Multiplex Network Approach", Multiplex Networks 2014: Towards the understanding of a complex world (MULTIPLEX), Satellite Workshop of European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS), Lucca, Italy, September 24, 2014. (Workshop)
Soumajit Pramanik, Ayan Das and Bivas Mitra, "Information Spread on Twitter: Does Mention Help?", Computational Social Science (CSS), Satellite Workshop of European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS), Lucca, Italy, September 24-25, 2014. (Workshop)
Soumajit Pramanik, Ayan Das and Bivas Mitra poster on "Multi-Layer Information Spread in Online Social Networks", Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks (DOOCN) VII, Satellite Workshop of European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS), Lucca, Italy, September 24, 2014 (Workshop)
Soumajit Pramanik and Bivas Mitra, "Influence of Interaction Events on the Evolution of Scientific Citations and Collaborations", Doctoral Symposium, 8th ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems (DEBS), Mumbai, India, May 26-29, 2014.
Soumajit Pramanik and Bivas Mitra, "Influence of Interactions on the Evolving Citation Network", Xerox Research Centre India (XRCI) Open, Bangalore, India, March 14, 2014. (Awarded "BEST POSTER")
ACADEMICS [Back to top]
Education
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), IIT Kharagpur [2013 - 2019].
M.Tech. in Computer Science from ISI, Kolkata [2011 - 2013].
B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engg. from St. Thomas' College of Engg. & Tech., Kolkata [2007 - 2011].
Schooling from Hindu School, Kolkata (Class XI & XII) [2005 - 2007]; Hare School, Kolkata (Class III to Class X) [1997 - 2005]; Scottish Church Collegiate School, Kolkata (Class I & II) [1995 - 1997].
Awards & Honours
Awarded SAP Labs India Doctoral Fellowship [July 2014 - June 2017].
Awarded Travel grants to attend CODS 2015 (from conference organizers), ICWSM 2016 (from conference organizers), ASONAM 2016 (from Microsoft Corporation), DSAA 2017 (from IEEE CIS), ICWSM 2019 (from conference organizers).
Qualified UGC-NET for eligibility for lectureship held in December’2012.
Ranked 2nd in M.Tech. at ISI, Kolkata.
Joint winner of the "TCS Best Student Project Award" in M.Tech. at ISI, Kolkata.
Ranked 209th in GATE 2011 (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering 2011), conducted by IIT Madras.
Project Visits & Internships
Visiting scholar at Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII), Saarbrücken, Germany from November, 2018 to June, 2019 to work with Dr. Rishiraj Saha Roy and Prof. Gerhard Weikum.
Visited LIP6 Lab, University of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France and L3I Lab, University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France during December, 2017 to collaborate with Dr. Raphael Tackx and Prof. Jean-Loup Guillaume.
Visited L3I Lab, University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France during June-July, 2017 to collaborate with Dr. Raphael Tackx and Prof. Jean-Loup Guillaume.
Visited L3I Lab, University of La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France during June-July, 2016 to collaborate with Dr. Raphael Tackx and Prof. Jean-Loup Guillaume.
Visited LIP6 Lab, University of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France during May-June, 2015 to collaborate with Dr. Maximilien Danisch, Dr. Qinna Wang and Prof. Jean-Loup Guillaume.
Visited Microsoft Research Lab, India during May, 2015 to collaborate with Dr. Sayan Pathak.
Visited LIP6 Lab, University of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris, France during September-October, 2014 to collaborate with Dr. Maximilien Danisch, Dr. Qinna Wang and Prof. Jean-Loup Guillaume.
Internship at Infosys Limited, Bangalore, India during May-July, 2012.
Teaching Assistantships
Spring 2018: Machine Learning (CS60050), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
Autumn 2017: Computing Lab 1 (CS69001), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
Spring 2017: Complex Networks (CS60078), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
Autumn 2016: Algorithms Lab (CS29001), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
Spring 2016: Operating Systems Lab (CS39002), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
Autumn 2015: Smartphone Computing and Applications (CS60009), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
Spring 2015: Operating Systems Lab (CS39002), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
Autumn 2014: Smartphone Computing and Applications (CS60009), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
Spring 2014: Operating Systems (CS30002), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
Autumn 2013: Programming & DataStructure Lab (CS19001), CSE, IIT Kharagpur.
CONTACT ME [Back to top]
Mailing Address: Campus E1 4, Room 427, Saarland Informatics Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany.
Email addresses: soumajit [DOT] pramanik [AT] gmail [DOT] com; pramanik [AT] mpi [HYPHEN] inf [DOT] mpg [DOT] de
Date modified: July 15, 2019