Soumen Chakrabarti
Soumen Chakrabarti (সৌমেন চক্রবর্তী) is an Indian computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. He is known for his work on
- The CLEVER Web page ranking system based on hyperlinks, related to PageRank.
- Focused crawlers, which are Web crawlers guided by page topic classifiers.
- Keyword search on graph databases, later popularized by Facebook graph search.
- Named entity disambiguation in Web text.
Soumen Chakrabarti | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Bachelor's degree) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Spouse(s) | Sunita Sarawagi |
| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science Web Mining |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay IBM Almaden Research Center |
| Doctoral advisor | Katherine Yelick |
He is author of an early book on Web search and mining.
He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2014.[1][2][3][4]
He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences,[5] and the Indian National Science Academy.[6]
He is among the distinguished alumni of IIT Kharagpur.[7][8][9]
References
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- "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards for 10 scientists". BusinessLine. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- "Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014". Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science & Technology List of recipients" (PDF). ssbprize.gov.in. 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
- "Indian Academy of Sciences". fellows.ias.ac.in.
- "INSA :: Indian Fellows Elected". www.insaindia.res.in.
- DelhiJune 27, India Today Web Desk New; June 27, 2019UPDATED:; Ist, 2019 12:31. "As many as 20 IIT Kharagpur alumni including IIT Bombay Professor Soumen Chakrabarti to get Distinguished Alumnus Award 2019". India Today.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- "IIT Bombay". www.facebook.com.
- "Adding to the glory – The KGP Chronicle".
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