Brief Biography
Sourangshu Bhattacharya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, an M.Tech. in Computer Science from I.S.I. Kolkata and a B.Tech. from I.I.T. Roorkee. Before joining IIT Kharagpur, he was a Scientist at Yahoo! Labs Bangalore, and a visiting scholar at the Helsinki University of Technology. He has more than 50 publications in top international conferences and journals, which have received more than 1000 citations.
Sourangshu is an associate editor for the Frontiers in Big Data and a senior program committee member for AAAI conference since 2021. He is a member of the ACM, and has been in the organising committee of AI-ML Systems 2022, ACM CODS-COMAD 2019, SIAM Data Mining Conference, ACM CODS-COMAD 2017, etc. He has also been a reviewer for multiple top conferences e.g. ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, KDD, CIKM, etc. and Journals e.g. IEEE Transactions on PAMI, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Elsevier Information Sciences, etc.
He is broadly interested in Machine Learning, with specific interests in Explainability and Data-centric AI, Multi-task Learning, Learning with Temporal Point Processes, Network Representation Learning, and Scalable Machine Learning. He has these techniques to applied problems in Computer Vision, Information Extraction, Opinion Dynamics and Sentiment Analysis, Computational Advertising, Health Informatics Natural Language Processing, Web and Online Social Networks.
About Me
I am a Computer Scientist by training, who is interested in Machine Learning and Optimization. My present areas of interest include Network and Temporal Representaion Learning, and Scalable Machine Learning. I work in the applied areas of Opinion Dynamics in Online Social networks, Online adveritsing, Information Extraction and Transportaion Science. In the past, I have applied Machine Learning tools to various problems in Bioinformatics, Computer Vision, and Text Mining. Please see my publications page for more information on my research.
Prior to joining IIT Kharagpur, I was working as a Scientist in Yahoo! Labs, Bangalore . At Yahoo!, I was working on improving the Click Through Rate prediction system for the RightMedia Ad Exchange. I was also working on learning from crowdsourced labels and learning word segmentation.
I did my PhD in Computer Science, from Dept. of Computer Science & Automation , Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. My advisor was Dr. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya, and I was a part of the Machine Learning Lab. My PhD research areas included Bioinformatics and Machine Learning. Please see my PhD thesis for more information.
I did my M.Tech. in Computer Science from I.S.I. Kolkata and B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from I.I.T. Roorkee.
I love Cars and places of natural beauty.