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• September 23, 2024
  Our paper titled "PerSEval: Assessing Personalization in Text Summarizers" got accepted in TMLR'24!

• September 15, 2024
  Eight papers (LLM's reasoning, Reliability, Sensitivity, Personalization, Hate speech, Mental health) got accepted in EMNLP'24 (6 in Main and 2 in Findings)! Click here to read.

• September 5, 2024
  Anwoy Chatterjee has received the prestigious Google India PhD Fellowship.

• August 14, 2024

Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty  received the  IETE – Prof Anita Gopal Dandekar Award for GenAI

• August 12, 2024

Our doctoral Student Anwoy Chatterjee received both the  Google & Microsoft Travel Grants to visit Bangkok for the ACL'24.

• July 10, 2024
  Our paper on factuality in the era of LLMs, accepted in Nature Machine Intelligence.

• July 10, 2024
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty was interviewed by DD URDU on "ChatGPT, Academic Integrity and India's roles."

•  July 7, 2024
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty was awarded Google PaliGemma Academic Program GCP Credit Award.

•  July 02, 2024
  Our paper on CoT interpretability in LLMs accepted in TMLR.

•  June 16, 2024
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty’s recent publication on Code-mixing Hindi Language has been covered by The Indian Express, The Times of India, Daijiworld, Mid-Day, Economic Times, Bhaskar Live, Hi India.

•  June 14, 2024
  Yash Kumar Atri has succesfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled Advancing Text Summarization with Conscience, Comprehension, and Multimodality.

•  June 3, 2024
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty received the Adobe Faculty Award 2024.

•  May 24, 2024
  Our LLM Benchmark Study Paper for Summerization hass been accepted on Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) Mental Health, 2024 

•  May 22, 2024
  Our paper on Dialogue Agents has been accepted on Natural Language Engineering, 2024

•  May 17, 2024
  Our paper on Dual Perspective Hypergraph Neural Networks has been accepted on SIGKDD, 2024

• May 16, 2024
  ACL (Findings), 2024: Siddhant Agarwal, Shivam Sharma, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty. MemeMQA: Multimodal Question Answering for Memes via Rationale-Based Inferencing.

•  May 16, 2024
  ACL (Findings), 2024: Neemesh Yadav, Sarah Masud, Vikram Goyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Tox-BART: Leveraging Toxicity Attributes for Explanation Generation of Implicit Hate Speech.

•  May 16, 2024
  ACL (Main), 2024: Anwoy Chatterjee, Eshaan Tanwar, Subhabrata Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Language Models can Exploit Cross-Task In-context Learning for Data-Scarce Novel Tasks.

•  May 14, 2024
  IJCAI (AI for Social Goods Track), 2024: Salam Michael Singh, Shubhmoy Kumar Garg, Amitesh Misra, Aaditeshwar Seth, Tanmoy Chakraborty. SUKHSANDESH: An Avatar Therapeutic Question Answering Platform for Sexual Education in Rural India.

•  April 21, 2024
  Dr. Giancarlo Sperlì from the University of Naples Federico II, is visiting LCS2 at IIT Delhi from 21-28 April, 2024.

•  March 27, 2024
  Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Nature, 2024: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Soham Das, Ayan Sengupta, and Md Shad Akhtar. Social, Economic and Demographic Factors Drive the Emergence of Hinglish Code-mixing on Social Media.

•  March 21, 2024
  Shivani Kumar has succesfully defended her Ph.D. thesis titled Understanding and Explaining Affective Traits in English and Code-mixed Conversations.

•  March 14, 2024
  NAACL (Main), 2024: Amey Hengle, Aswini Kumar Padhi, Sahajpreet Singh, Anil Bandhakavi, Md. Shad Akhtar and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Intent-conditioned and Non-toxic Counterspeech Generation using Multi-Task Instruction Tuning with RLAIF.

•  March 05, 2024
  IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2024: S. Sharma, S. Ramaneswaran, M.S. Akhtar and T. Chakraborty. Emotion-Aware Multimodal Fusion for Meme Emotion Detection.

•  March 01, 2024
  Bioinformatics, 2024: Priyadarshini Rai, Atishay Jain, Shivani Kumar, Divya Sharma, Neha Jha, Smriti Chawla, Abhijit Raj, Apoorva Gupta, Sarita Poonia, Angshul Majumdar, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Gaurav Ahuja, Debarka Sengupta. Literature Mining Discerns Latent Disease-Gene Relationships.

•  February 20, 2024
  LREC-COLING, 2024: Shivani Kumar, Rishabh Gupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Adding SPICE to Life: Speaker Profiling in Multiparty Conversations.

•  February 20, 2024
  LREC-COLING, 2024: Kartik Kartik, Sanjana Soni, Anoop Kunchukuttan, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Akhtar . Synthetic Data Generation and Joint Learning for Robust Code-Mixed Translation.

•  February 05, 2024
  Communications of the ACM, 2024: Sarah Masud, Tanmoy Chakraborty. The Promethean Dilemma of AI at the Intersection of Hallucination and Creativity.

•  January 23, 2024
  IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2024: Tharun Suresh, Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. A Comprehensive Understanding of Code-mixed Language Semantics using Hierarchical Transformer.

•  January 18, 2024
  EACL (Findings), 2024: Shivani Kumar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Harmonizing Code-mixed Conversations: Personality-assisted Code-mixed Response Generation in Dialogues.

•  January 18, 2024
  EACL (Findings), 2024: Sarah Masud, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Vikram Goyal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Probing Critical Learning Dynamics of LLMs for Hate Speech Detection.

•  January 17, 2024
  ICLR, 2024: Ayan Sengupta, Shantanu Dixit, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. A Good Learner can Teach Better: Teacher-Student Collaborative Knowledge Distillation.

• December 10, 2023

Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty received the Best Reviewer Award in EMNLP 2023.

•  December 10, 2023
  AAAI, 2024: Joykirat Singh, Subhabrata Dutta, Ishan Pandey, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Frugal LMs Trained to Invoke Symbolic Solvers Achieve Parameter-Efficient Arithmetic Reasoning.

•  November 14, 2023
  Sarah Masud has received the prestigious Google India PhD Fellowship.

•  October 27, 2023
  Sahil Mishra has received the Prime Minister’s PhD Research Fellowship, 2023.

•  October 27, 2023
  Karish Grover and Joykirat Singh have received the best B.Tech thesis award and the Institute Silver Medal for the best B.Tech’23 student, respectively at IIIT Delhi.

•  October 16, 2023
  Yash Kumar Atri has received the Microsoft travel grant for EMNLP 2023.

•  October 16, 2023
  Yash Kumar Atri, Shivani Kumar, and Gurusha Juneja have received the Microsoft travel grant for EMNLP 2023.

•  October 16, 2023
  Shivani Kumar has received the Microsoft travel grant for EMNLP 2023.

•  October 08, 2023
  EMNLP, 2023: Shivani Kumar, Ramaneswaran S, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. From Multilingual Complexity to Emotional Clarity: Leveraging Commonsense to Unveil Emotions in Code-Mixed Dialogues

•  October 08, 2023
  EMNLP (Findings), 2023: Rahul Vansh, Darsh Rank, Sourish Dasgupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Accuracy is not enough: Evaluating Personalization in Summarizers.

•  October 08, 2023
  EMNLP (Findings), 2023: Megha Sundriyal, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Preslav Nakov. From Chaos to Clarity: Claim Normalization to Empower Fact-Checking.

•  October 08, 2023
  EMNLP, 2023: Gurusha Juneja, Subhabrata Dutta, Soumen Chakrabarti, Sunny Manchanda, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Language Models Separately Tuned for Decomposition and Solution Improve Complex Reasoning.

•  October 08, 2023
  EMNLP (Findings), 2023: Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Manifold-Preserving Transformers are Effective for Short-Long Range Encoding

•  October 06, 2023
  EMNLP, 2023: Yash Kumar Atri, Arun Iyer, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Vikram Goyal. Promoting Topic Coherence and Inter-Document Consorts in Multi-Document Summarization via Simplicial Complex and Sheaf Graph.

•  October 06, 2023
  Scientific Reports, 2023: Udit Narang, Kushal Juneja, Pankaj Upadhyaya, Popat Salunke, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Swadhin Kumar Behera, Saroj Kanta Mishra and Akhil Dev Suresh. Artificial intelligence predicts normal summer monsoon rainfall for India in 2023.

•  September 11, 2023
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty received the Adobe Faculty Award 2023.

•  September 06, 2023
  IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2023: Yash Atri, Vikram Goyal, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Multi-Document Summarization Using Selective Attention Span and Reinforcement Learning.

•  August 28, 2023
  IJCAI, 2023: Atharva Kulkarni, Raya Das, Ravi S. Srivastava, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Learning and Reasoning Multifaceted and Longitudinal Data for Poverty Estimates and Livelihood Capabilities of Lagged Regions in Rural India. ( *** AI and Social Good Award - IJCAI, 2023 *** )

•  August 12, 2023
  Neurocomputing, 2023: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Valerio La Gatta, Vincenzo Moscato, Giancarlo Sperli. Information Retrieval Algorithms and Neural Ranking Models to detect previously Fact-Checked Information.

•  August 10, 2023
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty received the JP Morgan Faculty Award 2023.

•  July 15, 2023
  Neural Networks journal, 2023: Ansh Kumar Sharma, Rahul Kukreja, Mayank Kharbanda, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Node Injection for Class-specific Network Poisoning.

•  July 09, 2023
  ACL, 2023: Eshaan Tanwar, Subhabrata Dutta, Manish Borthakur and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Multilingual LLMs are Better Cross-lingual In-context Learners with Alignment. ( *** ACL Outstanding Paper Award, 2023 *** )

•  July 06, 2023
  Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal, 2023: Sarah Masud, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Political mud slandering and power dynamics during Indian assembly elections.

•  June 16, 2023
  IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2023: Shivani Kumar, Shubham Dudeja, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Emotion Flip Reasoning in Multiparty Conversations.

•  May 22, 2023
  Communications of the ACM, 2023: Subhabrata Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Thus spake ChatGPT: On the reliability of AI-based chatbots for science communication.

•  May 16, 2023
  SIGKDD, 2023: Atharva Kulkarni, Sarah Masud, Vikram Goyal, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Revisiting Hate Speech Benchmarks: From Data Curation to System Deployment.

•  May 16, 2023
  SIGKDD, 2023: Yash Kumar Atri, Vikram Goyal, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Fusing Multimodal Signals on Hyper-complex Space for Extreme Abstractive Text Summarization (TL;DR) of Scientific Contents.

•  May 14, 2023
  Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023: Qing Meng, Tharun Suresh, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Predicting Hate Intensity of Twitter Conversation Threads.

•  May 02, 2023
  ACL 2023: Shivam Sharma, Ramaneswaran S, Udit Arora, Md. Shad Akhtar and Tanmoy Chakraborty. MEMEX: Detecting Explanatory Evidence for Memes via Knowledge-Enriched Contextualization.

•  May 02, 2023
  ACL 2023: Shaily Desai, Rishabh Gupta, Manvi Goel, Anil Bandhakavi, Md Shad Akhtar and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Counterspeeches up my sleeve! Intent Distribution Learning and Persistent Fusion for Intent-Conditioned Counterspeech Generation.

•  May 02, 2023
  ACL 2023: Eshaan Tanwar, Manish Borthakur, Subhabrata Dutta and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Multilingual LLMs are Better Cross-lingual In-context Learners with Alignment.

•  April 25, 2023
  IJCAI, 2023: Atharva Kulkarni, Raya Das, Ravi S. Srivastava, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Learning and Reasoning Multifaceted and Longitudinal Data for Poverty Estimates and Livelihood Capabilities of Lagged Regions in Rural India.

•  April 23, 2023
  Nature Machine Intelligence, 2023: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Sarah Masud. Judging the creative prowess of AI.

•  April 05, 2023
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty has been selected as an ACM’s Distinguished Speaker for 3 years.

•  March 31, 2023
  Prof. Debarghya Ghoshdastidar, TU Munich visited our lab for one month (Mar 2023).

•  February 25, 2023
  IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2023: Md Rabiul Awal, Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Eshaan Tanwar, Tanmay Garg, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning for Multilingual Hate Speech Detection.

•  February 24, 2023
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty has received IEI Young Engineers Award 2021-22 in the Computer Engineering discipline.

•  February 22, 2023
  PAKDD-2023: Priyanshi Gupta, Yash Kumar Atri, Apurva Nagvenkar, Sourish Dasgupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Inline Citation Classification using Peripheral Context and Time-evolving Augmentation.

•  February 10, 2023
  Aseem Srivastava has received the Travel Grant from the Microsoft Research, India towards his paper at TheWebConf (WWW) of 2023.

•  February 07, 2023
  IEEE TCSS 2023: Mohit Bhardwaj, Megha Sundriyal, Manjot Bedi, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. HostileNet: Multi-Label Hostile Post Detection in Hindi.

•  February 01, 2023
  PNAS NEXUS 2023: Vasu Goel, Dhruv Sahnan, Subhabrata Dutta, Anil Bandhakavic, and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Hatemongers ride on echo chambers to escalate hate speech diffusion, PNAS NEXUS 2023.

•  January 25, 2023
  TheWebConf (WWW) 2023: Aseem Srivastava, Ishan Pandey, Md Shad Akhtar and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Response-act Guided Reinforced Dialogue Generation for Mental Health Counseling.

•  January 22, 2023
  EACL 2023: Shivam Sharma, Atharva Kulkarni, Tharun Suresh, Himanshi Mathur, Preslav Nakov, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Characterizing the Entities in Harmful Memes: Who is the Hero, the Villain, the Victim?

•  January 09, 2023
  ACM Computing Surveys: Tanmay Garg, Sarah Masud, Tharun Suresh, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Handling Bias in Toxic Speech Detection: A Survey.

•  November 24, 2022
  Tharun Suresh has been awarded a gold medal for his academic performance across M.Tech departments for the batch of 2022.

•  November 18, 2022
  AAAI 2023: Shivani Kumar, Ishani Mondal, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Explaining (Sarcastic) Utterances to Enhance Affect Understanding in Multimodal Dialogues.

•  November 18, 2022
  AAAI 2023: Shivam Sharma, Siddhant Agarwal, Tharun Suresh, Preslav Nakov, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. What do you MEME? Generating Explanations for Visual Semantic Role Labelling in Memes.

•  October 28, 2022
  Megha Sundriyal has recieved the EMNLP Diversity and Inclusion Subsidies (D&I) award.

•  October 28, 2022
  Karish Grover has recieved the Microsoft travel grant towards his NeurIPS paper.

•  October 15, 2022
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty and Dr. Md Shad Akhtar have featured in the list of the World’s Top 2% scientists database 2022 recently released by Elsevier and Stanford University.

•  October 12, 2022
  Several openings for Postdoc/PhD/MSR/RA. Check the details here.

•  October 06, 2022
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty received Indo-German Paired Early Career Fellowship in Applied Research (PECFAR).

•  October 06, 2022
  Paper accepted at EMNLP 2022 Megha Sundriyal, Atharva Kulkarni, Vaibhav Pulastya, Md. Shad Akhtar and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Empowering the Fact-checkers! Automatic Identification of Claim Spans on Twitter.

•  September 21, 2022
  Paper accepted at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 Shivam Sharma, Mohd Khizir Siddiqui, Md. Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Domain-aware Self-supervised Pre-training for Label-Efficient Meme Analysis.

•  September 15, 2022
  Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2022 Karish Grover, S M Phaneendra Angara, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Public Wisdom Matters! Discourse-Aware Hyperbolic Fourier Co-Attention for Social Text Classification.

•  September 08, 2022
  LCS2 members received awards at IIIT Foundation Day 2022

  1. Kartikey Gupta memorial scholarship: Karish Grover

  2. Dean’s List of Academic Excellence: Diksha Sethi, Joykirat Singh, Shounak Ghatak, Siddhant Agarwal, Shashank Dargar, Mudit Gupta, Diksha Sethi, Karish Grover, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Tarini Sharma, Soham Das, Tanya Gupta.

•  August 17, 2022
  Paper accepted at COLING 2022 Firoj Alam, Stefano Cresci, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Fabrizio Silvestri, Dimiter Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov. A Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection.

•  August 09, 2022
  Dr Tanmoy Chakraborty has been appointed as the Associate Editor of ACM TALLIP.

•  August 07, 2022
  Paper accepted at TKDD 2022 Dhruv Sahnan, Vasu Goel, Sarah Masud, Chhavi Jain, Vikram Goyal, Tanmoy Chakraborty. DiVA: A Scalable, Interactive and Customizable Visual Analytics Platform for Information Diffusion on Large Networks.

•  July 22, 2022
  Aseem Srivastava has recieved the ACM-IARCS travel grant towards his KDD paper.

•  July 22, 2022
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  Sarah Masud has recieved the ACM-W and Microsoft travel grant towards her KDD paper.
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•  July 22, 2022
  Sarah Masud and Aseem Srivastava received the SIGKDD 2022 Student registration award.

•  May 26, 2022
  Shivam Sharma received IJCAI travel grant.

•  May 21, 2022
  Mohammad Aflah Khan got selected for Google Summer of Code under Tensorflow.

•  May 19, 2022
  Paper accepted at SIGKDD 2022 Sarah Masud, Manjot Bedi, Mohammad Aflah Khan, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Proactively Reducing the Hate Intensity of Online Posts via Hate Speech Normalization.

•  May 19, 2022
  Paper accepted at SIGKDD 2022 Aseem Srivastava, Tharun Suresh, Sarah Lord, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Counseling Summarization using Mental Health Knowledge Guided Utterance Filtering.

•  May 17, 2022
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty has received PAKDD 2022 Early Career Research Award.

•  May 12, 2022
  Shivani Kumar has recieved Google Travel support to present her ACL paper.

•  May 03, 2022
  Paper accepted at IEEE TKDE, 2022 Subhabrata Dutta, Shravika Mittal, Dipankar Das, Soumen Chakrabarti, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Incomplete Gamma Integrals for Deep Cascade Prediction using Content, Network, and Exogenous Signals.

•  April 23, 2022
  Paper accepted at Knowledge and Information Systems, 2022 Aman Roy, Shravika Mittal, Tanmoy Chakraborty. MG2Vec+: A Multi-headed Graph Attention Network for Multigraph Embedding.

•  April 15, 2022
  Paper accepted at IJCAI 2022 (Survey Track) Shivam Sharma, Firoj Alam, Md. Shad Akhtar, Dimitar Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Hamed Firooz, Alon Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Detecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey.

•  April 08, 2022
  Paper accepted at NAACL 2022 (Findings) Shivam Sharma, Md Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty. DISARM: Detecting the Victims Targeted by Harmful Memes.

•  March 17, 2022
  Paper accepted at ICWSM 2022 Usha Lokala, Aseem Srivastava, Triyasha Ghosh Dastidar, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md. Shad Akhtar, Maryam Panahiazar, Amit Sheth. A Computational Approach to Understand Mental Health from Reddit: Knowledge-aware Multitask Learning Framework?

•  March 07, 2022
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty’s views on “How Artificial Intelligence Offers Real-World Opportunities For Indian Students.” covered by Outlook India.

•  February 25, 2022
  Project Robinhood featured in various media platforms. More details can be found here.

•  February 24, 2022
  Paper accepted at ACL 2022 Subhabrata Dutta, Jeevesh Juneja, Dipankar Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Can Unsupervised Knowledge Transfer from Social Discussions Help Argument Mining? .

•  February 24, 2022
  Paper accepted at ACL 2022 Shivani Kumar, Atharva Kulkarni, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. When did you become so smart, oh wise one?! Sarcasm Explanation in Multi-modal Multi-party Dialogues .

•  February 23, 2022
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty has been elevated to the senior IEEE member. Congratulations!

•  February 21, 2022
  Paper accepted in Journal of Computational Science 2022 Dhananjay Kumar Singha, Subrata Nandia, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Prasenjit Choudhurya. Disintegrating constant communities in complex networks .

•  February 18, 2022
  Project Robinhood (analyzing political hate speech on Twitter during the Indian Assembly Elections 2022) is live now!

•  February 12, 2022
  Paper accepted at ACM/IMS Transactions on Data Science 2022 Hridoy Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Blackmarket-driven Collusion on Online Media: A Survey .

•  January 23, 2022
  IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), 2024: Tharun Suresh, Ayan Sengupta, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. A Comprehensive Understanding of Code-mixed Language Semantics using Hierarchical Transformer.

•  January 17, 2022
  Paper accepted at PAKDD 2022 Siddharth Sadhwani, Nishant Grover, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Detecting Anchors' Opinion in Hinghlish News Delivery .

•  January 17, 2022
  Paper accepted at PAKDD 2022 Priya Mehta, Meet Maheshwari, Brihi Joshi, Tanmoy Chakraborty. BaDumTss: Multi-task Learning for Beatbox Transcription .

•  January 17, 2022
  Megha Sundriyal and Sarah Masud are selected for “Research Week with Google” which is going to be held during February 8th-11, 2022.

•  December 31, 2021
  Paper accepted in Knowledge-Based Systems Shivani Kumar, Aubhav Shrimal, Md Shad Ahtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Discovering Emotion and Reasoning its Flip in Multi-Party Conversations using Masked Memory Networks and Transformer.

•  December 27, 2021
  Dr. Md. Shad Akhtar, Dr. Vinayak Abrol, and Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty, jointly received Google exploreCS award.

•  December 01, 2021
  Paper accepted in AAAI, 2022 Poorav Desai, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md Shad Ahtar. Nice perfume. How long did you marinate in it? Multimodal Sarcasm Explanation.

•  November 24, 2021
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty has recieved Google Faculty Award for TensorFlow 2.0.

•  November 19, 2021
  Paper accepted in ECIR, 2022 Manjot Bedi, Tanisha Pandey, Sumit Bhatia and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Why Did You Not Compare With That? Finding Papers for Use as Baseline.

•  November 16, 2021
  Paper accepted in ICWSM, 2022 Hridoy Dutta, Nirav Diwan, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Weakening the Inner Strength: Spotting Core Collusive Users in YouTube Blackmarket Network.

•  November 15, 2021
  Paper accepted in Neurocomputing, 2021 Ayan Sengupta, Sourabh Kumar Bhattacharjee, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Does Aggression Lead to Hate? Detecting and Reasoning Offensive Traits in Hinglish Code-Mixed Texts.

•  October 28, 2021
  Tutorial accepted in WSDM, 2022 Sarah Masud, Pinkesh Badjatiya, Amitava Das, Manish Gupta, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Half-Day Tutorial on Combating Online Hate Speech: The Role of Content, Networks, Psychology, User Behavior, etc.

•  October 13, 2021
  Brihi Joshi and Aditya Chetan recieved Innovative Student Projects Award 2021 for their undergraduate thesis from Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE).

•  October 12, 2021
  Paper accepted in WSDM, 2022 Subhabrata Dutta, Samiya Caur, Soumen Chakrabarti, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Semi-supervised Stance Detection of Tweets Via Distant Network Supervision.

•  October 12, 2021
  Paper accepted in WSDM, 2022 Ganeshan Malhotra, Abdul Waheed, Aseem Srivastava, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Speaker and Time-aware Joint Contextual Learning for Dialogue-act Classification in Counselling Conversations.

•  October 09, 2021
  Paper accepted in Phyica A Shravika Mittal, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Siddharth Pal. Dynamics of node influence in network growth models.

•  September 29, 2021
  Paper accepted in NeurIPS 2021 as a spotlight paper Subhabrata Dutta, Tanya Gautam, Soumen Chakrabarti, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Redesigning the Transformer Architecture with Insights from Multi-particle Dynamical Systems.

•  September 22, 2021
  Hridoy Sankar Dutta succesfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled Detecting and reasoning collusive activities in online media.

•  September 20, 2021
  Dr. Md Shad Akhtar has received a grant from Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) for conducting the first workshop on Indian Code-mixed and Low-resource Natural Language Processing (ICLrNLP).

•  September 17, 2021
  Talk proposal accepted in Conference for Truth and Trust Online 2021: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Blackmarket-driven Collusive Attacks on Online Media Platforms.

•  September 11, 2021
  Megha Sundriyal received SIGIR student grant to attend and present her paper at CIKM’21.

•  September 10, 2021
  Paper accepted in ASONAM, 2021 Vaibhav Pulastya, Gaurav Nuti, Yash Kumar Atri and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Assessing the Quality of the Datasets by Identifying Mislabeled Samples.

•  September 09, 2021
  Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2021 Debajyoti Bera, Rameshwar Pratap, Bhisham Dev Verma, Biswadeep Sen, Tanmoy Chakraborty. QUINT: Node embedding using network hashing.

•  September 08, 2021
  LCS2 members received awards at IIIT Foundation Day 2021

  1. Dean’s List of Academic Excellence: Atishay Jain, Rahul Kukreja, Ansh Kumar Sharma, Vasu Goel, Anunay Yadav, Nishant Grover, Siddharth Sadhwani, Aditya Rastogi, Yash Aggarwal, Karish Grover, Tharun Suresh, Himanshi Mathur, Tanya Gupta

  2. Research Excellence Award: Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty

•  August 31, 2021
  Paper accepted at ICDM 2021 Dhruv Sahnan, Snehil Dahiya, Vasu Goel, Anil Bandhakavi, and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Better Prevent than React: Deep Stratified Learning to Predict Hate Intensity of Twitter Reply Chains.

•  August 29, 2021
  Paper accepted at EMNLP Findings 2021 Shraman Pramanick, Shivam Sharma, Dimitar Dimitrov, Md. Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov and Tanmoy Chakraborty. MOMENTA: A Multimodal Framework for Detecting Harmful Memes and Their Targets.

•  August 08, 2021
  Paper accepted in 30th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2021) Megha Sundriyal, Parantak Singh, Md. Shad Akhtar, Shubhashis Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. DESYR: Definition and Syntactic Representation Based Claim Detection on the Web.

•  July 22, 2021
  Paper accepted in ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Mayank Jobanputra, Himani Negi, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Detecting and Analyzing Collusive Entities on YouTube.

•  July 10, 2021
  Paper accepted in 32nd ACM Hypertext, 2021 Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Kartik Aggarwal and Tanmoy Chakraborty. DECIFE: Detecting Collusive Users Involved in Blackmarket Following Services on Twitter.

•  July 08, 2021
  Following LCS2 members have recieved ACL volunteer fellowship and free registration in ACL 2021-

  1. Abdul Waheed

  2. Atharva Kulkarni

  3. Ganeshan Malhotra

  4. Nirav Diwan

  5. Shivam Sharma

  6. Shraman Pramanick

•  June 12, 2021
  Nirav Diwan has been selected to present his work at the Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School (EEML 2021).

•  May 20, 2021
  Meet Maheshwari and Priya Mehta have qualified for the final round of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2021.

•  May 20, 2021
  Hridoy Sankar Dutta has recieved ICWSM scholarship 2021.

•  May 19, 2021
  Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing Shivani Kumar, Manjot Bedi, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty . Multi-modal Sarcasm Detection and Humor Classification in Code-mixed Conversations .

•  May 18, 2021
  Paper accepted in KDD 2021 Snehil Dahiya, Shalini Sharma, Dhruv Sahnan, Vasu Goel, Emilie Chouzenoux, Víctor Elvira, Angshul Majumdar, Anil Bandhakavi, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Would your tweet invoke hate on the fly? Forecasting hate intensity of reply threads on Twitter .

•  May 13, 2021
  Paper accepted in Knowledge-Based Systems Yash Kumar Atri, Shraman Pramanick, Vikram Goyal, Tanmoy Chakraborty. See, Hear, Read: Leveraging Multimodality with Guided Attention for Abstractive Text Summarization .

•  May 11, 2021
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty has received a faculty research grant from LinkedIn to work on issues related to misinformation.

•  May 06, 2021
  Paper accepted in ACL Findings, 2021 Shraman Pramanick, Dimitar Dimitrov, Rituparna Mukherjee, Shivam Sharma, Md. Shad Akhtar, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Detecting Harmful Memes and Their Targets .

•  May 06, 2021
  Paper accepted in ACL Findings, 2021 Nirav Diwan, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Zubair Shafiq. Fingerprinting Fine-tuned Language Models in the Wild .

•  May 06, 2021
  Paper accepted in ACL Findings, 2021 Ayan Sengupta, Sourabh Kumar Bhattacharjee, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Md. Shad Akhtar. HIT - A Hierarchically Fused Deep Attention Network for Robust Code-mixed Language Representation .

•  April 27, 2021
  Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2021 Kaiqiang Yu, Cheng Long, Deepak P, Tanmoy Chakraborty. On Efficient Large Maximal Biplex Discovery .

•  April 16, 2021
  Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems Suraj Pandey, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Syntactically Coherent Text Augmentation for Sequence Classification .

•  April 14, 2021
  Tutorial accepted in ECML-PKDD 2021: Sarah Masud, Pinkesh Badjatiya, Amitava Das, Manish Gupta, Vasudeva Varma, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Combating Online Hate Speech: Roles of Content, Networks, Psychology, User Behavior and Others .

•  April 09, 2021
  Paper accepted in Applied Soft Computing: William Scott Paka, Rachit Bansal, Abhay Kaushik, Shubhashis Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Cross-SEAN: A Cross-Stitch Semi-Supervised Neural Attention Model for COVID-19 Fake News Detection .

•  March 16, 2021
  Call for paper: Neurocomputing (Elsevier, Impact Factor: 4.438) Special Issue on Learning to Combat Online Hostile Posts in Regional Languages during Emergency Situations (Link)

•  March 16, 2021
  Paper accepted in ICWSM 2021: William Scott Paka, Ayan Sengupta, Gaurav Rajan, Suman Roy, Tanmoy Chakraborty. An Embedding-based Joint Sentiment-Topic Model for Short Texts .

•  March 16, 2021
  Paper accepted in ICWSM 2021: Shraman Pramanick, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Exercise? I thought you said 'Extra Fries’: Leveraging Sentence Demarcations and Multi-hop Attention for Meme Affect Analysis .

•  March 16, 2021
  Paper accepted in ICWSM 2021: Hridoy Dutta, Udit Arora, Tanmoy Chakraborty. ABOME: A Multi-platform Data Repository of Artificially Boosted Online Media Entities .

•  February 21, 2021
  Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (IEEE TCSS): Shravika Mittal, Debarka Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Hide and Seek: Outwitting Community Detection Algorithms .

•  February 09, 2021
  Paper accepted at PAKDD-21: Viresh Gupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. VIKING: Adversarial Attack on Network Embeddings via Supervised Network Poisoning .

•  February 09, 2021
  Paper accepted at PAKDD-21: Rachit Bansal, William Scott, Nidhi, Shubhashis Sengupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Combining Exogenous and Endogenous Signals with a Semi-Supervised Co-Attention Network for Early Detection of COVID-19 Fake Tweets .

•  February 08, 2021
  CONSTRAINT 2021: Workshop on Combating​ On​line Ho​st​ile Posts in Regional L​anguages dur​ing Emerge​ncy Si​tuation; Collocated with AAAI 2021

•  January 12, 2021
  Paper accepted at EACL-21: Shreya Gupta, Megha Sundriyal, Parantak Singh, Md Shad Akhtar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. LESA: Linguistic Encapsulation and Semantic Amalgamation Based Generalised Claim Detection from Online Content .

•  December 17, 2020
  Hridoy got selected in the Rising Stars in Data Science workshop to be organized by the Center for Data and Computing (CDAC), University of Chicago.

•  November 27, 2020
  Aditya Chetan has got an internship (with a possibility to upgrade to research fellow) at Microsoft Research, India.

•  November 03, 2020
  Paper accepted at AAAI-21 Student Abstract and Poster Program: Siddharth Yadav, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Unsupervised Sentiment Analysis for Code-mixed Data .

•  November 03, 2020
  Paper accepted at AAAI-21 Student Abstract and Poster Program: Anubhav Shrimal, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Attention Beam: An Image Captioning Approach .

•  October 28, 2020
  Sarah Masud has received the Prime Minister PhD fellowship 2020.

•  October 27, 2020
  Dr Tanmoy Chakraborty has been appointed as the Publication Chair and Area Chair of NAACL’21.

•  October 12, 2020
  Dr Tanmoy Chakraborty has been appointed as the Senior PC of IJCAI’21.

•  October 03, 2020
  Paper accepted at ICDE, 2021: Subhabrata Dutta, Sarah Masud, Sakshi Makkar, Chhavi Jain, Vikram Goyal, Amitava Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Hate is the New Infodemic: A Topic-aware Modeling of Hate Speech Diffusion on Twitter.

•  September 26, 2020
  Shravika Mittal received Chancellor’s award, the highest recognition of an undergraduate student at IIITD.

•  September 25, 2020
  Paper accepted at Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020: Vishaal Udandarao, Abhishek Agarwal, Anubha Gupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. InPHYNet: Leveraging Attention-based Multitask Recurrent Networks for Multi-label Physics Text Classification.

•  September 24, 2020
  LCS2 has signed an MOU with Logically.ai to start a funded collaborative research for the next two years in the area of fraud and misinformation.

•  September 18, 2020
  Paper accepted at EMNLP Findings 2020: Tanya Chawdhury, Alvin Dey, Yash Kumar Atri, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Corpora Evaluation and System Bias detection in Multi Document Summarization .

•  September 09, 2020
  Hridoy Sankar Dutta got offered a postdoc position from University of Cambridge.

•  September 08, 2020
  LCS2 members received awards at IIIT Foundation Day 2020

  1. Dean’s List of Academic Excellence: Suchet Aggarwal, Atishay Jain, Nirav Diwan, Kushagr Arora, Dhruv Sahnan

  2. Teaching Assistant Awards: Anubhav Shrimal

  3. Teaching Excellence Award: Tanmoy Chakraborty

•  August 19, 2020
  Mukul Kumar got selected for Google Research India’s Summer school on AI.

•  August 15, 2020
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty has been appointed as one of the program directors of the Technology Innovation Hub (TIH), IIITD on “Cognitive Computing and Social Sensing”.

•  August 06, 2020
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty has received a grant from Facebook to access the CrowdTangle platform.

•  August 02, 2020
  Sarah Masud received the SIGKDD 2020 Student registration award. It includes a full registration waiver for SIGKDD’20 and $100 credit to attend KDD’21.

•  May 31, 2020
  Full paper accepted at TACL: Vaibhav Kumar, Vaibhav Kumar, Tenzin Bhutia and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Nurse is Closer to Woman than Surgeon? Mitigating Gender-Biased Proximities in Word Embeddings, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2020.

•  May 29, 2020
  Full paper accepted at ACM Hypertext 2020: Siva Charan Reddy Gangireddy, Deepak P., Cheng Long and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Unsupervised Fake News Detection: A Graph-based Approach, ACM Hypertext, 2020.

•  May 16, 2020
  Full paper accepted at ACM SIGKDD 2020: Subhabrata Dutta, Sarah Masud, Soumen Chakrabarti and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Deep Exogenous and Endogenous Influence Combination for Social Chatter Intensity Prediction, ACM SIGKDD, 2020.

•  April 20, 2020
  Full paper accepted at IJCAI 2020: Tanya Chowdhury, Sachin Kumar and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Neural Abstractive Summarization with Structural Attention, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, 2020.

•  April 12, 2020
  Full paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems: Viresh Gupta, Aayush and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Detecting and Characterizing Extremist Reviewer Groups in Online Product Reviews, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

•  March 12, 2020
  Full paper accepted at JCDL’20: Baani Lean Kaur Jolly, Lavina Jain, Debajyoti Bera and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Journal-Level Citation Networks, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), 2020.

•  February 02, 2020
  Shivangi Singhal won the Best Poster award in RIISE-2020 (Research Showcase), IIITD under the theme “Human Centered Design”.

•  January 28, 2020
  Full paper accepted at PAKDD’20: Dattatreya Mohapatra, Siddharth Pal, Soham De, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Modeling Citation Trajectories of Scientific Papers , Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2020.

•  January 28, 2020
  Full paper accepted at PAKDD’20: Aman Roy, Vinayak Kumar, Debdoot Mukherjee, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Learning Multigraph Node Embeddings Using Guided Levy Flights , Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2020.

•  January 25, 2020
  Shravika Mittal had the honour of being invited for the Student’s Dinner 2020 with the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.

•  January 21, 2020
  Dr. Mortaza Saberi, Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney, is visiting our lab for two months (Jan 15 - Mar 15, 2020).

•  January 20, 2020
  Full paper accepted at TIST: Hridoy Dutta, Udit Arora, Aditya Chetan and Brihi Joshi and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Analyzing and Detecting Collusive Users Involved in Blackmarket Retweeting Activities, Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology.

•  January 18, 2020
  Full paper accepted at TIFS: Vishal, Aditya Adhikari , Hridoy Dutta and Tanmoy Chakraborty. HawkesEye: Detecting Fake Retweeters using Hawkes Process and Topic Modeling , IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2020.

•  January 14, 2020
  LCS2, IIITD was in news for conducting Workshop on Combating Fraud Activities using Data Science covered by ETV Bharat, The Pioneer, IndianWeb2, Indian Education Diary and BW Education.

•  December 24, 2019
  Tanmoy Chakraborty received Outstanding reviewer recognition in EMNLP-IJCNLP, 2019.

•  December 24, 2019
  Tanmoy Chakraborty received ASEM-DUO India Faculty Fellowship.

•  December 15, 2019
  Paper accepted at ECIR 2020: Prajna Upadhyay, Srikanta Bedathur, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Maya Ramanath. Aspect-based Academic Search using Domain-specific KB, European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2020.

•  December 10, 2019
  Paper accepted at AAAI 2020: Shivangi Singhal, Anubha Kabra, Mohit Sharma, Rajiv Shah, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru. SpotFake+: A Multimodal Framework for Fake News Detection via Transfer Learning, 34rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020(Student Abstract).

•  December 10, 2019
  Paper accepted at AAAI 2020: Sarthak Jindal, Raghav Sood, Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa, Tanmoy Chakraborty. NewsBag: A Benchmark Multimodal Dataset for Fake News Detection, SafeAI workshop, AAAI, 2020.

•  December 09, 2019
  Hridoy Sankar Dutta won third prize in the IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium 2019.

•  December 03, 2019
  Brihi Joshi got selected to attend the AAAI Undergraduate Consortium to be held at AAAI 2020 (acceptance rate - 16%) on 7th of February, 2020 in New York.

•  November 25, 2019
  LCS2 is inviting applications for RA position.
  The position is open for one year starting December 2019 and is likely to be extended upto one year. Salary will be as per institute norms. Eligible candidates will be encouraged to apply for PhD position.
  Interested candidates please email your CV to lcs2@iiitd.ac.in and tanmoy@iiitd.ac.in
  Desirable Skills : Strong knowledge on programming (Python), Machine learning, Deep Learning and NLP

•  November 10, 2019
  Siva receives Prestigious ASEM DUO student fellowship 2019.

•  November 10, 2019
  Paper accepted at Transactions on Information Forensics & Security : Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Blackmarket-driven Collusion among Retweeters – Analysis, Detection and Characterization, 2019.

•  September 16, 2019
  Shivangi Shingal received best poster award in IEEE BigMM, 2019.

•  September 11, 2019
  LCS2 members received awards at IIIT Foundation Day 2019

  1. Brihi Joshi: Dean’s list of Academic Excellence

  2. Aditya Chetan: Dean’s list of Academic Excellence

  3. Viresh Gupta : Deans List for Academic Excellence & Deans List for Innovation in Research and Development

  4. Abhishek Maiti: Dean’s Innovation Research & Development

  5. Shravika Mittal: Dean’s List for Academic Excellence

  6. Vishal Raj Dutta: Best TA award for the IR course

  7. Baani Leen Kaur Jolly: Dean’s Innovation Research & Development

  8. Tanmoy Chakraborty: Teaching excellence award for NLP and IR courses.

•  September 10, 2019
  Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty received the prestigious IBM Faculty Award 2019. This award comprises of an unrestricted grant that can be used to strengthen the collaboration between IIITD and IBM Research.

•  August 30, 2019
  Paper accepted at IEEE GHCI 2019: Karan Dabas, Nishtha Madan, Vijay Arya, Sameep Mehta, Gautam Singh, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Fair Transfer of Multiple Style Attributes in Text.

•  August 30, 2019
  Sarthika Dhawan’s work on Detecting Collusion in E-Commerce Sites selected as Best BTech Thesis award in CSE 2019.

•  August 08, 2019
  Siva Charan Reddy and Shivangi Singhal got selected for the prestigious TCS fellowship.

•  August 08, 2019
  Paper accepted at ICDM 2019: Subhabrata Dutta, Dipankar Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Modeling Engagement Dynamics of Online Discussions using Relativistic Gravitational Theory.

•  August 07, 2019
  Paper accepted at CIKM 2019: Subhabrata Dutta, Gunkirat, Shreyans, Arpan, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Into the Battlefield: Quantifying and Modeling Intra-community Conflicts in Online Discussion, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management(CIKM), 2019.

•  August 05, 2019
  Shravika Mittal, 4th year UG student has been awarded the Google Women Techmakers Scholarship, 2019.

•  July 21, 2019
  Dattatreya Mohapatra, a undergrad batch of 2019 alumni has been granted full assistance to attend and volunteer at CppCon 2019. This is the premier conference for the entire C++ community and is organized by the Standard C++ Foundation.

•  July 21, 2019
  Short paper accepted at BigMM 2019: Shivangi Singhal, Rajiv Shah, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Shinichi Satoh. SPOTFAKE: A Multi-modal framework for fake news detection, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data (IEE BigMM), 2019.

•  July 14, 2019
  Brihi Joshi has received the best poster award for the work done on Collusive Retweeter Detection with Tanmoy Chakraborty, Hridoy Sankar Dutta and Aditya Chetan at the AI Assisted Data Analytics (AIAD) workshop held at IIIT Delhi.

•  July 13, 2019
  Paper accepted at Information Processing and Management Journal: Subhabrata Dutta, Dipankar Das, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Changing Views: Persuasion Modeling and Argument Extraction from Online Discussions. Elsevier Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2019. (IF: 3.892)

•  July 01, 2019
  Sarthika Dhawan received ACM-W fellowship, Microsoft IJCAI and INAE travel grant to present her paper in IJCAI’19.

•  June 30, 2019
  Brihi Joshi won the Judge’s Choice Best Poster Award for the work done on Collusive Retweeter Detection with Tanmoy Chakraborty, Hridoy Sankar Dutta and Aditya Chetan at the Research AI Day held at IIM Bangalore and co-organised by IBM India Research Lab. This work on Collusion detection on Twitter fit extremely well with the theme of Research AI Day - “Usable AI”.

•  June 29, 2019
  Congratulations Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty on getting your project proposal accepted in SERB-IMPRINT scheme. He will lead the project as a Co-PI along with Dr. Maya Ramanath (PI) and Dr. Srikanta Bedathur (Co-PI) from IIT Delhi. The project will attempts to design AI-enabled assistive technology for smart searching and browsing online educational content. VideoKen will support them as an Industry partner.

•  June 27, 2019
  LCS2 PhD students are heading abroad for their internship.

  1. Hridoy Sankar Dutta is joining Dr. Hemant Purohit's lab at George Mason University - Fairfax, Virginia.

  2. Siva Charan Reddy is joining Dr. Deepak Padmanabhan's lab at Queen's University, Belfast.

•  June 20, 2019
  Short paper accepted at ASONAM 2019: Udit Arora, William Scott Pakka and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Multitask Learning for Blackmarket Tweet Detection, ASONAM 2019 (Acceptance rate 6%)

•  June 05, 2019
  Best student paper award in JCDL: Go Wide, Go Deep: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Papers through Influence Dispersion Trees has received “Best Student paper” award in the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2019.

•  May 22, 2019
  Dr. Tanmoy’s recent work on social media use with AI to predict human personality/values is covered by Economic Times.

•  May 21, 2019
  Paper accepted at ACM TIST: Deepak Thukral, Adesh Pandey, Rishabh Gupta, Vikram Goyal, Tanmoy Chakraborty. DiffQue: Estimating Relative Difficulty of Questions in Community Question Answering Services, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), 2019. (IF: 3.19)

•  May 10, 2019
  Paper accepted at IJCAI 2019: Sarthika Dhawan, Siva Charan Reddy Gangireddy, Shiv Kumar, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Spotting Collective Behaviour of Online Frauds in Customer Reviews,, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI, 2019.

•  April 25, 2019
  Paper accepted at CV-COPS, CVPR: Viresh Gupta, Mohit Agarwal, Manik Arora, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Richa Singh, Mayank Vatsa. Bag-of-Lies: A Multimodal Dataset for Deception Detection, Workshop on The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security, CV-COPS 2019, CVPR, 2019.

•  April 22, 2019
  Paper accepted at Spring KAIS: Zhe Cui, Noseong Park, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Incremental Community Discovery Using Latent Network Representation and Probabilistic Inference, Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), 2019. (IF: 2.247)

•  April 15, 2019
  Demo paper accepted at SIGIR 2019: Arpan Mukherjee, Shubhi Tiwari, Tanya Chowdhury and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Automatic Curation of Content Tables for Educational Videos, SIGIR 2019

•  April 03, 2019
  Paper accepted at SemEval 2019: Viresh Gupta, Baani Leen Kaur Jolly, Ramneek Kaur and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Stylometric Insights into Hyperpartisan News Detection, SemEval 2019

•  March 26, 2019
  Paper accepted at IEEE WoWMoM: Harish Fulara, Gursimran Singh, Dhertya Jaisinghani, Mukulika Maity, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Vinayak Naik. Learning to rescue WiFi networks from unnecessary active scans, WoWMoM 2019

•  March 13, 2019

  1. Aditya Chetan has received a visiting opportunity at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken. He will be working in Department 5 (D5) - Databases and Information Systems in the broad areas of NLP and Data Mining.

  2. Brihi Joshi has received the Snap Research Scholarship 2019. She has been awarded a scholarship as well as an internship opportunity at Snap Inc. Research, LA. She’s one of the 8 scholars selected globally and the only one from India! Further details

•  March 09, 2019
  Paper accepted at IEEE/ACM JCDL: Dattatreya Mohapatra, Abhishek Maiti, Sumit Bhatia, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Go Wide, Go Deep: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Papers through Influence Dispersion Trees, JCDL 2019

•  February 10, 2019
  Paper accepted at IEEE CIM: Sudhesh Solomon, Srinivas P Y K L, Amitava Das, Björn Gambäck, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Understanding the Psycho-Sociological Facets of Homophily in Social Network Communities, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (IF: 6.611)

•  February 04, 2019
  Media coverage of ACSS 19 appeared in The Statesman, Hindustan, Dainik Jagaran, Punjab Kesari and Rashtiya Sahara.

•  February 03, 2019
  Coverage of ACSS 19 appeared in online portals of Career 360 and Higher Education Plus.

•  January 21, 2019
  Paper accepted at TDSC: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Sushil Jajodia, Jonathan Katz, Antonio Picariello, Giancarlo Sperlì, Vs Subrahmanian. FORGE: A Fake Online Repository Generation Engine for Cyber Deception, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

•  January 11, 2019
  Dr. Tanmoy’s recent work on “Ensemble algorithms for community detection” covered by Science Trends.

•  January 09, 2019
  Brihi Joshi has been awarded an ACM-W scholarship to attend WSDM 2019.

•  January 09, 2019
  Full paper accepted at ECIR’19: Janu Verma, Srishti Gupta, Debdoot Mukherjee, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Heterogeneous Edge Embedding for Friend Recommendation, Proceedings of 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR)

•  December 29, 2018
  Paper accepted at ACM TDS: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Ayush Agarwal, Noseong Park, V.S. Subrahmanian. Ensemble Detection and Analysis of Communities in Complex Networks, ACM Transactions on Data Science.

•  December 14, 2018
  Full paper accepted at PAKDD’19: Divam Gupta, Kushagra Singh, Soumen Chakrabarti, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Multi-task Learning for Target-dependent Sentiment Classification, Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 2019.

•  November 28, 2018
  Aditya Chetan receives travel grant from Google to attend WSDM 2019.

•  November 22, 2018
  Dr. Tanmoy’s thoughts on the “Future of Data Engineering and Data Science” covered by SiliconIndia Magazine.

•  November 21, 2018
  Hridoy Sankar Dutta receives student travel grant to attend CoDS-COMAD 2019.

•  November 16, 2018
  Two papers accepted at AAAI:

  1. Divam Gupta, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Soumen Chakrabarti. GIRNet: Interleaved Multi-Task Recurrent State Sequence Models, Proceedings of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2019.

  2. Di Jin, Xinxin You, Weihao Li, Dongxiao He, Peng Cui, Franc ̧oise Fogelman-Soulie, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Incorporating Network Embedding into Markov Random Field for Better Community Detection, Proceedings of the Thirty-Thirty AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence , 2019.

•  October 22, 2018
  Paper accepted at WSDM 2019: Aditya Chetan, Brihi Joshi, Hridoy Sankar Dutta and Tanmoy Chakraborty. CoReRank: Ranking to Detect Users Involved in Blackmarket-based Collusive Retweeting Activities, 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2019.

•  October 21, 2018
  Two papers accepted at CODS-COMAD:

  1. Tanya Chowdhury (Ex IIITD Undergrad, currently at Myntra), Tanmoy Chakraborty. CQASUMM: Building References for Community Question Answering Summarization Corpora, ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data, 2018.

  2. Sonu Gupta, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Tanmoy Chakraborty. MalReG: Detecting and Analyzing Malicious Retweeter Groups, ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data, 2018.

•  October 20, 2018
  LCS2 Member Lavina Jain has been given a Software Engineering internship opportunity with Facebook London for Summers 2019.

•  October 18, 2018
  Paper accepted at IEEE BigData Conference: Ankesh Anand, Kshitij Gorde, Joel Moniz, Noseong Park, Tanmoy Chakraborty and Bei-Tseng Chu. Phishing URL Detection with Oversampling based on Text Generative Adversarial Networks, IEEE International Conference on BigData Conference, 2018.

•  September 21, 2018
  Dr. Tanmoy receives “Google India Faculty Award” (Domain: Data Mining and Modeling).

•  September 20, 2018
  Brihi Joshi, 3rd year UG student and an LCS2 member has been awarded the Google Women Techmakers Scholarship, 2018. It contains a $1000 award and a retreat to the Singapore office of Google, all expenses paid.

•  September 12, 2018
  Hridoy Sankar Dutta has been selected to attend the Young Scientists’ Conference at India International Science Festival 2018, Lucknow where he will be presenting a poster on his work on Collusion in Online Social Networks.

•  September 12, 2018
  Brihi Joshi has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration India, 2018. It is produced by AnitaB.org India and presented in partnership with ACM India.

•  September 12, 2018
  Brihi Joshi, 3rd year UG student and an LCS2 member has been awarded the Google Women Techmakers Scholarship, 2018. It contains a $1000 award and a retreat to the Singapore office of Google, all expenses paid.

•  September 08, 2018
  LCS2 members received several awards for their achievements at the 10th Foundation Day celebration of IIIT Delhi.
  Dean’s List of Academic Affairs: Dattatreya Mohapatra, Vishal Raj Dutta, Pulkit Madaan, Viresh Gupta, Sarthika Dhawan
  Dean’s List of Student Affairs: Lavina Jain, Baani Leen Kaur Jolly
  Dean’s Award for Innovation, Research and Development: Brihi Joshi, Aditya Chetan
  Teaching Awards: Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty (Both Monsoon 2017 and Winter 2018)

•  September 01, 2018
  LCS2 member Brihi Joshi was recently acknowledged by the Women Who Code weekly newsletter - CODE Review, for her contribution in her first academic paper that was accepted at ASONAM 2018.

•  August 29, 2018
  Paper accepted in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems: Eric Lancaster (Undergrad, UMD), Tanmoy Chakraborty and V.S Subrahmanian (Professor, Dartmouth College). MALTP: Parallel Prediction of Malicious Tweets, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.

•  August 15, 2018
  Paper accepted in Knowledge-Based Systems Journal: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Saptarshi Ghosh (Faculty, IITKGP) and Noseong Park (Faculty, George Mason University). Ensemble-based Overlapping Community Detection using Disjoint Community Structures, Knowledge-Based Systems Journal (Impact Factor: 4.515).

•  August 09, 2018
  Ayush Agarwal is joining Johns Hopkins University for his masters and will work on NLP domain.

•  August 06, 2018
  Book chapter accepted at Springer: Subhabrata Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty and Dipankar Das. How did the discussion go: Discourse act classification in social media conversations, Linking and Mining Heterogeneous and Multi-view Data, Springer, 2018.

•  July 30, 2018
  Dr. Tanmoy has received an “unconstrained faculty award” from Financials Markets Technology start-up Egregore Labs.

•  July 10, 2018
  Our group intern Pranay Mukherjee becomes one of the contributors of NLTK. He introduced a new distance metric Jaro Winkler distance to the NLTK package. His contribution is listed as an awesome contribution by NLTK maintainers. PR Link

•  June 30, 2018
  Paper accepted at (MAHIN), ASONAM’18: Akrati Saxena, Ralucca Gera, Ryan Miller and Tanmoy Chakraborty. Discovering and leveraging communities in dark multi-layered networks for network disruption, International Workshop on Multilayer and Heterogeneous Information Network (MAHIN), ASONAM , 2018.

•  June 19, 2018
  Shivangi Singhal, a PhD student of Dr. Rajiv Ratn Shah and Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty, has got selected for attending the ACM India Grad Cohort 2018. Only 50 students were selected for this event. https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~acmindiacohort/

•  June 19, 2018
  Full paper accepted at ASONAM’18: Hridoy Sankar Dutta, Aditya Chetan, Brihi Joshi, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Retweet Us, We Will Retweet You: Spotting Collusive Retweeters Involved in Blackmarket Services, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2018.

•  May 18, 2018
  Ayush Agarwal received PAKDD Student Travel Award. Only 10 students have been awarded the same.

•  May 04, 2018
  Dr. Tanmoy received Early Career Research Award

•  May 01, 2018
  Invited talk by Dr. Tanmoy at DTU
  Community Analysis in Complex Networks: Unfolding Structure and Semantics
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•  April 30, 2018
  Journal paper accepted at JCS: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Sushil Jajodia, Noseong Park, Andrea Pugliese, Edoardo Serra, V.S. Subrahmanian. Hybrid Adversarial Defense: Merging Honeypots and Traditional Security Methods, Journal of Computer Security, 2018. (Accepted)

•  April 28, 2018
  Dr. Tanmoy received best reviewer award at WWW’18