IITKGP

Responsibilities

  • Head, Computer Science and Engineering

Research Areas


Dr. Niloy Ganguly is a Surojit and Sanchayita Chatterjee Chair Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur and a Fellow of Indian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI). He was a Visiting (W-3) Professor in Leibnitz University of Hannover for two years for the period 2021 - 2022. He has also spent 2 years as a Research Scientist in Technical University, Dresden, before joining IIT Kharagpur in 2005, and has risen to the rank of Professor in 2014. He has done his Btech from IIT Kharagpur and his Phd from IIEST, Shibpur. His research interests lie primarily in Social Computing, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Network Science. He has published in 80 journals and 225 conferences, almost all of them are in reputed international venues such as ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, SIGIR, WWW, CSCW, ICWSM, INFOCOM, IEEE and ACM Transaction etc. He has served in the organizing committee of COMSNETS, NetSciCom, JCDL, WWW, DEBS CODS and IndoML. Prof Ganguly’s work has been recognized through awards by NSF, Cisco, NetApp, Samsung, and Yahoo!, among others. He has received prestigious research grants and projects, notably from Data Transparency Lab, IMPRINT, ITRA, Intel, HPE, Adobe, Microsoft Research, Accenture, BEL, and TCS. He has graduated 24 Ph.D. and 10 M.S. students during this tenure. He is the founding member of the Complex Networks Research Group (CNeRG), comprising faculty members, research scholars, and other students affiliated to the department. The group is a success story in itself, with several long-standing impactful collaborations, and presence in reputed venues across domains such as Social Computing, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Network Science, Networked Systems, etc.
  • CrysXPP: An explainable property predictor for crystalline materials by Das K., Samanta B., Goyal P., Lee S.-C., Bhattacharjee S., Ganguly N. npj Computational Materials 8 - (2022)
  • Fair Updates in Two-Sided Market Platforms: On Incrementally Updating Recommendations by Patro G. K., Chakraborty A. , Ganguly N. , Gummadi K. P. 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 181-188 (2020)
  • Optimizing the Recency-Relevancy Trade-off in Online News Recommendations by Chakraborty A., Ganguly N. , Gummadi K. P., Ghosh S. Proc. World Wide Web conference (WWW) 837-846 (2017)

Principal Investigator

  • A Novel Framework to Compress Multimodal Dialogue Contexts and Identify User Satisfaction Index Merlyn Mind, Inc
  • AI-Driven AgriSmart Solutions: Digital Soil Health Card IIT KHARAGPUR
  • AI/ML Techniques for Online Shopping (Sub Project IV) Flipkart Internet Private Limited
  • Building a Dataset to Advance Reasoning in Large Language Models Turing Global India Private Limited
  • CrysLDM: Latent Diffusion Model for Crystal Material Generation INDO KOREA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER
  • IREM: Informative and Robust Explanation Generation of Deep Multi-modal models. Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Apex Committee of SPARC, Ministry of Education
  • Leveraging bipartite network to investigate the dynamical properties of socio-technical systems Samsung Electronics Co.Ltd.
  • MSR India PhD Award Unrestricted Grant MICROSOFT RESEARCH LAB. INDIA PVT. LTD., BANGALORE
  • Property Preserving Data Gradation for Autonomous Vehicle Data HEWLETT-PACKARD (INDIA) SOFTWARE OPERATION PRIVATE LIMITED
  • Real Time Failure Prediction System NetApp India Private Limited
  • Toward building responsible image and text processing tools Persistent System Pvt. Ltd.
  • Towards sustainable AI models: Accessing LLMs efficiently ACCENTURE SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED
  • Understanding and Predicting Opinion Dynamics In Collective Environment Using Deep Network Representation CISCO University Research Program Fund
  • Unrestricted grant for research in social networks and user-generated content Dr. M Chelliah, Head, Academic Relations, Yahoo India R & D

Co-Principal Investigator

  • An open-source Datathon platform (Datahub Creation) IIT ALUMNI & OTHER DONOURS
  • Google Unrestricted Fund for Social Computing GOOGLE INDIA PRIVATE LIMTED
  • Identifying the Differences between the Large Language Model and Human-Generated Texts to Facilitate Responsible AI MICROSOFT INDIA (R and D) PRIVATE LIMITED
  • Model Development for Storage System Troubleshooting and Workload Characterization NETAPP INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
  • Social computing for e-commerce FLIPKART INTERNET PRIVATE LIMITED
  • Unrestricted research grant in social computing MICROSOFT CORPORATION
  • Unrestricted Travel Grant Various Institutes/Organisations

Ph. D. Students

Abhilash Nandy

Area of Research: Information Retrieval

Anupam Khan

Area of Research: Machine Learning

Arijit Nag

Area of Research: Social Networks

Gunjan Balde

Area of Research: Privacy and Health Analytics

Kishalay Das

Area of Research: Graphs and ML

Mainak Chaudhury

Area of Research: Machine Learning, NLP

P. B. Salim

Area of Research: AI + Economics

Rohit Dutta

Area of Research: Sustainable AI

Samik Datta

Area of Research: Learning on Graphs

Shreyas S

Area of Research: Learning on Graphs

Sombit Bose

Area of Research: Natural Language Processing

Subhendu Khatuya

Area of Research: Natural Language Processing

Subhojyoti Khastagir

Area of Research: Machine Learning