Hello! I am Bithika Pal

PhD Student

Department of Computer Science Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur


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About me

I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. My current research area includes Sparse Neural Network and its graph analysis. In particular, I am focusing on Neural Network Compression using Ramanujan graph properties, and its applications.

Other than these, I also work on Graph Neural Network, Machine Learning Algorithm Design with a particular focus on Recommender Systems, Influence Maximization in social networks, and Time-Varying Graph Analysis.


Education

Experience

  • Teaching Assistance: Information System Lab, Recommender System Course during MS, Programming and Data Structure Lab, Advance Machine Learning, Deep Learning during PhD, at IIT kharagpur.

  • Research Experience: Design of recommender systems in E-Business using different graph information

  • Senior Research Fellowat E-Business Center of Excellence, from August 2018 to December 2019.

  • Junior Research Fellow at E-Business Center of Excellence, from July 2016 to 2018.

  • Industry Experience: Worked as Teradata Application Developer in IBM India Pvt. Ltd. from January 2014 to June 2016. Experience in data modelling, data mapping, ETL in telecom Business Intelligence domain.

Publication

  • Journal:

  1. Suman Banerjee*, Bithika Pal*, "An efficient updation approach for enumerating maximal (∆, γ)-cliques of a temporal network", Journal of Complex Networks, Oxford Academic, 2022 [in Press].

  2. Suman Banerjee, Bithika Pal, "Budgeted influence and earned benefit maximization with tags in social networks", Social Network Analysis and Mining volume 12, Article number: 21, 2022.

  3. Suman Banerjee*, Prateek Banjare*, Bithika pal*, Mamata Jenamani, "A multistep priority-based ranking for top-N recommendation using social and tag information", Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer, 2021.

  4. Bithika Pal, Mamata Jenamani, "Trust Inference using Implicit Influence and Projected User Network for Item Recommendation", Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer, 2018.

  • Conference:

  1. Bithika Pal, Arindam Biswas, Sudeshna Kolay, Pabitra Mitra, Biswajit Basu, "A Study on the Ramanujan Graph Property of Winning Lottery Tickets", in the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2022), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 17-23 July, 2022.

  2. Suman Banerjee*, Bithika Pal*, "Updating Maximal (∆, γ)-Cliques of a Temporal Network Efficiently", in the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, (WISE 2021), Melbourne, Australia, 26-29 October, 2021.

  3. Suman Banerjee*, Bithika Pal*, "A Two-Phase Approach for Enumeration of Maximal (∆, γ)-Cliques of a Temporal Network ", In the 32nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2021, Austria (Online), 27-30 September, 2021.

  4. Suman Banerjee, Bithika Pal, Maheswar Singha Mahapatra, "A Social Distancing-Based Facility Location Approach for Combating COVID-19", In the 21st International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications, ICCSA 2021, Italy (Online), 13-16 September, 2021.

  5. Manish Chandra, Debasis Ganguly, Pabitra Mitra, Bithika Pal and James Thomas , "NIP-GCN: An Augmented Graph Convolutional Network with Node Interaction Patterns", In the 44th International ACM-SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval SIGIR 2021, Online,11-15 July, 2021.

  6. Suman Banerjee, Bithika Pal, Mamata Jenamani, "Budgeted Influence Maximization with Tags in Social Network", In the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering WISE 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 20-24 October, 2020.

  7. Suman Banerjee, Bithika Pal, Mamata Jenamani, "DySky: Dynamic Skyline Queries on Uncertain Graphs", In the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering WISE 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 20-24 October, 2020.

  8. Bithika Pal, Mamata Jenamani, "Personalized Ranking in Collaborative Filtering: Exploiting l-th Order Transitive Relations of Social Ties", In the ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data CoDS-COMAD 2020, Hyderabad, India, 5-7 January, 2020.

  9. Suman Banerjee*, Bithika Pal*, "On the Enumeration of Maximal (∆, γ)-Cliques of a Temporal Network", In the ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science & Management of Data CoDS-COMAD 2019, Kolkata, India, 3-5 January, 2019.

  10. Bithika Pal, Mamata Jenamani, "Kernelized Probabilistic Matrix Factorization for Collaborative Filtering: Exploiting Projected User and Item Graph", in 12th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2018), Vancouver, Canada, 2-7 October, 2018.

  11. Bithika Pal, Suman Banerjee, Mamata Jenamani, "Threshold-Based Heuristics for Trust Inference in a Social Network", in 11th IEEE International Conference on Contemporary Computing (IC3 2018), Noida, India, 2-4 August, 2018.

  12. Bithika Pal, Mamata Jenamani, "Trust Inference using Implicit Influence for Item Recommendation", in 13th IEEE International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based System (SITIS 2017), Jaipur, India, 4-7 December, 2017.

Technical Report:

  1. Bithika Pal, Prithwish Jana, Akash Singh Sant, Shreyas Damodar More, Manasvi Sagarkar, "Perception and Planning in Autonomous Car", in Term Project Presentation in Artificial Intelligence Class, Kharagpur, India, 12-15 November, 2020. The video link of the presentation can be found here.

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COntact

Email: bithikapal[at]iitkgp[dot]ac[dot]in

Office Address: Room 319, 2nd floor, Dept. of CSE, IIT Kharagpur, Pin - 721302