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 | Sunita Sarawagi |
| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2014) J. C. Bose National Fellowship (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science Web Mining |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Google |
| 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 was awarded the J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2019.[5]
He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences,[6] and the Indian National Science Academy.[7]
He is among the distinguished alumni of IIT Kharagpur.[8][9][10]
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.
- ^ "The list of New fellows awarded during the year 2019-20 in the J C Bose Fellowship" (PDF).
- ^ "Indian Academy of Sciences". fellows.ias.ac.in.
- ^ "INSA :: Indian Fellows Elected". www.insaindia.res.in.
- ^ "As many as 20 IIT Kharagpur alumni including IIT Bombay Professor Soumen Chakrabarti to get Distinguished Alumnus Award 2019". India Today. 27 June 2019.
- ^ "IIT Bombay". www.facebook.com.
- ^ "Adding to the glory". KGP Chronicle. 27 June 2019.