I am a Professor working in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University Chennai. This is my personal page where I intend to keep both academic and my personal interests.
I work in the broad areas of Web Science and Data Analytics. In specific, my interests include Social Network Analysis, Bias & Privacy in the Web and Action Recognition in Sports Videos.
Samvaad Talk titled "What Drives Epidemics and Information Spread: Internal or External Factors?" given on 2nd July, 2025 at IIIT Bangalore.
Visited Web Science Lab, IIIT Bangalore for research collaboration during June 30 to July 2, 2025.
Felt honored to review and conduct viva-voce exam for the PhD thesis titled "Data Driven Culture Specific Rhythm and Percussion Pattern Analysis in Indian Art Music" from IIT Madras, May-June 2025.
Reviewer for Journal of Computational Social Science (2025) and AAAI ICWSM 2026.
Recognition as Senior Member of ACM (Oct 2024)
My student Nirmal Kumar Sivaraman successfully defended his thesis titled "Endogenous and Exogenous Spread in Epidemics and in Information Diffusion over Online Social Networks" on Aug 16, 2024.
Finally our PReMI 2021 paper got published in LNCS proceedings, July 2024.
TPC Member in COLING 2025, ASONAM 2024, ADCOM 2024, ACM WebSci 2024.
Reviewer for AAAI ICWSM 2024 and LREC-COLING 2024.
Our work on Google search personalisation titled "Google Search in India: Unveiling the Geo-Personalized Web" is accepted for presentation and publication in the ACM CODS-COMAD 2024 to be held in Jan 2024, IIIT Bangalore.
Our work titled "On the Usage of Epidemiological Models for Information Diffusion Over Twitter" has got accepted in the Springer Journal, Social Network Analysis and Mining, Sep 2023
TPC Member and Reviewer for IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology 2023
My student Arpan Gupta successfully defended his thesis titled "Cricket Stroke Activity Recognition in Telecast Videos" on Feb 15, 2023.
TPC Member in ACM WebSci 2023, Reviewer for AAAI ICWSM 2023
Our recent work on Tracking in Indian News Media Websites that has got accepted in AAAI ICWSM 2021 and ACM WebSci 2021 has got featured in Open Magazine. Here is the article "Tracking the Trackers".
I sang and recorded 100 Soundaryalahari phrases written by Adi Sanakaracharya - each phrase in one raga - during the first lockdown period May 2020 to Sept 2020 and created a YouTube playlist in my YouTube channel.