Instructors
Prof. Niloy Ganguly (niloy@cse.iitkgp.ac.in
Prof. Somak Aditya (saditya@cse.iitkgp.ac.in)
Guest Instructor : Dr. Sandipan Sikdar, Assistant Professor, L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universitat, Hannover (sandipan.sikdar@l3s.de)
Course Venue and Timings
Lectures at CSE Department Room 107 (CSE-107)
Wednesdays - 10:00 AM to 10:55 AM
Thursdays - 09:00 AM to 09:55 AM
Fridays - 11:00 AM to 11:55 AM
Teaching Assistants
Sachin Vashistha (sachinvashistha6916@gmail.com)
Office Hours: Friday, 5-6 PM at Research Project Lab, 2nd floor, Takshashila Building. Please email at least a day before office hours.
Mainak Chaudhury (mainakcacsgu@gmail.com, machfx@kgpian.iitkgp.ac.in)
Office Hours : Mondays, 5-6PM at CNeRG Laboratory CSE Department Room 205. Please email atleast a day before office hours.
Course Evaluation Weightage (Tentative)
Attendance - 10 %
Midsem - 30 %
Endsem - 30 %
Term Project - 30 %
Announcements:
[Apr 10, 2026] Project Presentation on April 15, 2026 09:30 - 11 AM and April 16, 9-10AM. Prepare accordingly! Submission of Deliverables (April 14, 2026 11:59PM). Instructions of deliverables and timings have been shared by email.
[Apr 10, 2026] All slides for the course are uploaded in the Course Materials Tab. Happy Learning!
[Apr 04, 2026] Slides on Transformers and Graph Transformers are uploaded in the Course Materials Tab Weeks 9 and 10. Happy Learning!
[Mar 27, 2026] Pytorch Notebook on GCN is uploaded in the Course Materials Tab Week 8. Happy Learning!
[Mar 27, 2026] Slides on Graph Neural Networks, GCN are re-uploaded in the Course Materials Tab Week 8. Happy Learning!
[Mar 20, 2026] Slides on Graph Neural Networks, GCN are uploaded in the Course Materials Tab Week 8. Happy Learning!
[Mar 13, 2026] Answer scripts of Midsem to be shown post-class hours today!
[Mar 13, 2026] Project Discussion with TAs to be conducted twice. One in March 20 and final discussion in the week before the Project Evaluation Week (Apr 6-10) (Tentative). Pull up your socks and get going!
[Mar 13, 2026] Random Graph Slides Uploaded in Course Materials Tab.
[Feb 10, 2026] Form submission for project has been floated in email. Deadline : February 13, 2026 8:59AM IST. Presentation in class hours on February 13, 2026.
[Feb 07, 2026] Quiz/Class Test 1 & 2 solutions have been uploaded in Assessments tab.
[Feb 05, 2026] Midsem Syllabus - All topics taught till February 13, 2026 (Refer Course Materials for more) (Topics: Introduction, Graph Theory Basics, Community Detection, Link Analysis, Graph Representation Learning, Knowledge Graphs)
[Feb 05, 2026] Tutorial materials on Neural Networks are uploaded in Course Materials Tab Week 5 - Graph Representation Learning. Happy Learning!
[Feb 03, 2026] Tutorial on Neural Networks @ Takshashila 2nd Floor on Wednesday February 4, 2026 Timings: 6-7PM.
[Feb 03, 2026] Slides are uploaded in the Course Material Tab for Week 5 - Graph Representation Learning. Happy Learning!
[Jan 29, 2026] Slides are uploaded in the Course Material Tab for Week 4 - Community Detection. Happy Learning!
[Jan 26, 2026] Slides are uploaded in the Course Material Tab for Week 2 and 3. Happy Learning!
[Jan 22, 2026] Guided Project Allotment has been communicated via email.
[Jan 13, 2026] Reference Materials are uploaded in the Course Material Tab Week 2. Happy Learning!
[Jan 08, 2026] Slides are uploaded in the Course Material Tab. Happy Learning!
[Jan 06, 2025] Class commences from Jan 07, 2025 at CSE Department Room 107 at 10:00AM. See you there!