Niloy Ganguly is a professor of Computer Science, IIT Kharagrpur and a Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering who works in three different but related fields: (1) Online Social networks, (2) Network Theory, (3) machine learning. Prior to his current position as a faculty at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, he was working as a Research Scientist in Zentrum für Hochleistungsrechnen, Technische Universität Dresden for two years. He received his Ph.D from IIEST, Shibpur and BTech from IIT Kharagpur.

He is a part of a very active research group CNeRG (Complex Network Research Group) http://cnerg.org in IIT Kharagpur. He has been collaborating with various national and international universities and research lab including UIUC, TU Dresden, Germany, MPI PKS and MPI SWS, Germany, Microsoft Lab, Adobe Labs, HP Labs, NetApp Labs etc. He currently publishes in various top ranking international journals and conferences including ICDM, ACL, WWW, INFOCOM, SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGCHI, ICWSM, CSCW, NIPS CCS, PODC, Euro Physics Letters, Physical Review E, ACM and IEEE Transactions, etc. For further information on Dr. Ganguly, please visit his website: http://www.facweb.iitkgp.ac.in/~niloy/.