Students

I am working with the following talented PhD / MS students and research fellows.

Ongoing (at Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur)

Shounak Paul, pursuing PhD (joint supervision with Dr. Pawan Goyal, CSE, IIT Kharagpur)

• Broad topic: Application of NLP to Legal Data

• Best M.Tech. thesis award at CSE, IITKGP

• Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)

Soham Poddar, pursuing PhD 

• Broad topic: Use of Social Media during Disasters and Epidemics

• Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)

Aniket Deroy, pursuing PhD (joint supervision with Dr. Kripabandhu Ghosh, IISER Kolkata)

• Broad topic: Legal data analytics

Debtanu Datta, pursuing PhD (joint supervision with Prof. Adrijit Goswami, Mathematics, IIT Kharagpur)

• Broad topic: NLP in Indian languages

• Prime Minister’s Research Fellowship (PMRF)

Koyena Chowdhury, pursuing PhD

• Broad topic: Analysis of large networks

Sagar Chakraborty, pursuing PhD from IIT Jodhpur (joint supervision with Prof. Gaurav Harit, IIT Jodhpur)

• Broad topic: Document Image Understanding in the Legal Domain

Graduated / submitted thesis (approx. reverse chronological order of graduation)

Anurag Roy 

• Submitted PhD thesis from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in July 2024  (joint supervision with Dr. Abir Das, CSE, IIT Kharagpur)

• Thesis title: Overcoming Data Limitations and Catastrophic Forgetting in Visual Scene Understanding

• Joined  IBM Research India

Abhisek Dash

• Completed PhD from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in February 2023 (joint supervision with Dr. Animesh Mukherjee, CSE, IIT Kharagpur)

• Thesis title: Bias and Fairness in Information Retrieval Algorithms on E-commerce Platforms

• TCS PhD Fellowship

• IEEE INFOCOM 2019 Best In-Session Presentation Award 

• Joined Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany as a postdoc

Paheli Bhattacharya

• Completed PhD from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in August 2022

• Thesis title: Text and Graph Processing Methods for Assisting Legal Practitioners [pdf]

• TCS PhD Fellowship

• JURIX 2019 Best Paper Award

• ICAIL 2021 Best Student Paper Award

• Joined Bosch Research

Arpan Mandal 

• Completed PhD from Department of CST, IIEST Shibpur in May 2022 (joint supervision with Professor Sekhar Mandal, CST, IIEST Shibpur)

• Thesis title: Catchphrases in Legal Case Documents: Identification and Applications [pdf]

• Visvesvaraya PhD Fellowship

• Joined the University of Southampton, UK as a postdoc

Moumita Basu

• Completed PhD from Department of CST, IIEST Shibpur in March 2021 (joint supervision with Professor Sipra DasBit, CST, IIEST Shibpur)

• Thesis title: Utilizing Social Media for Post-Disaster Resource Allocation and Emergency Preparedness [pdf]

Shalmoli Ghosh 

• Completed MS from Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur in March 2021

• Thesis title: Utilizing Social Media for Health Analytics [pdf]

Soumi Dutta 

• Completed PhD from Department of CST, IIEST Shibpur in March 2019 (joint supervision with Professor Asit Kr. Das, CST, IIEST Shibpur)

• Thesis title: Information Filtering and Organisation in Social Microblogging Sites [pdf]