Soham Poddar
About Me
I am a PMRF Research Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in the department of Computer Science and Engineering.
I am working in the area of "Social Media Analytics for mitigating Disasters and Epidemics" under the guidiance of Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh .
I am a also a member of Complex Networks Research Group (CNeRG).
Contact me at: sohampoddar26 [at] gmail [dot] com or
sohampoddar [at] kgpian.iitkgp.ac.in
Github profile: https://github.com/sohampoddar26
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PIIZaa0AAAAJ
My CV:
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Education
PhD (Pursuing)
Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur
Duration: September 2020 to Present
Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF), December 2020 cycle
Master of Technology
Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur
CGPA: 9.6
Departmental Rank: 2
Thesis Title: Summarizing Legal Case Documents: Incorporating Domain Knowledge in General Summarization Algorithms
Duration: July 2018 to June 2020
Bachelor of Technology
Department of CST, IIEST Shibpur
CGPA: 9.08
Thesis Title: Detection of Flood Images on Social Media using Convolutional Neural Network
Duration: July 2014 to May 2018
Indian School Certificate
Auxilium Convent School, Barasat
Percentage: 94.75
Year: 2014
Publications
Soham Poddar, Rajdeep Mukherjee*, Subhendu Khatuya*, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh.
"How COVID-19 has Impacted the Anti-Vaccine Discourse: A Large-Scale Twitter Study Spanning Pre-COVID and Post-COVID Era" 18th International AAAI Conference of Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Buffalo 2024.
[Link to Paper] [Dataset and Codes]Soham Poddar, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Azlaan Mustafa Samad, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh.
"MuLX-QA: Classifying Multi-Labels and Extracting Rationale Spans in Social Media Posts" ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), 2024.
[Link to Paper] [Codes]Soham Poddar, Azlaan Mustafa Samad, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Niloy Ganguly, Saptarshi Ghosh.
"CAVES: A dataset to facilitate explainable classification and summarization of concerns towards COVID vaccines". 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference (Resource Track), Madrid 2022.
[Link to Paper] [Dataset and Codes]Soham Poddar, Mainack Mondal, Janardan Misra, Niloy Ganguly, and Saptarshi Ghosh.
"Winds of Change: Impact of COVID-19 on Vaccine-related Opinions of Twitter users" 16th International Conference on Web and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM), Atlanta, 2022.
[Link to Paper] [Dataset and Codes]Abhay Shukla, Paheli Bhattacharya, Soham Poddar, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Pawan Goyal and Saptarshi Ghosh.
"Legal Case Document Summarization: Extractive and Abstractive Methods and their Evaluation" The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL- IJCNLP), Virtual Event 2022.
[Link to Paper] [Dataset and Codes][Best paper award] Paheli Bhattacharya, Soham Poddar, Koustav Rudra, Kripabandhu Ghosh, and Saptarshi Ghosh.
"Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents" Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), Sao Paulo, June 2021.
[Link to paper] [Codes]Rahul Pullanikkat, Soham Poddar, Anik Das, Tushar Jaiswal, Vivek Kumar Singh, Moumita Basu, and Saptarshi Ghosh.
"Utilizing the Twitter social media to identify transportation-related grievances in Indian cities". Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), 2024.
[Link to Paper][Dataset][Book Chapter] Soham Poddar, Mainack Mondal, Saptarshi Ghosh, Arnab Jana.
"A Survey on Disaster: Understanding the After-Effects of Super-Cyclone Amphan, the Helping Hand of Social Media". Advances in Urban Design and Engineering, Springer, pp. 157--197, 2022.
[Online version] [Preprint]Ashish Kumar Layek, Soham Poddar, and Sekhar Mandal.
"Detection of Flood Images Posted on Online Social Media for Disaster Response." 2019 Second International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms (IEEE ICACCP), Sikkim, February 2019.
[Link to paper][Non-refereed] Soham Poddar, Moumita Basu, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh.
"Overview of the FIRE 2023 Track: Artificial Intelligence on Social Media (AISoMe)". Proceedings of FIRE 2023 - Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Goa, December 2023.
[Link to paper][Non-refereed] Soham Poddar, Moumita Basu, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh.
"Overview of the FIRE 2022 track: Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis)". Proceedings of FIRE 2022 - Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Kolkata, December 2022.
[Link to Paper][Non-refereed] Moumita Basu, Soham Poddar, Kripabandhu Ghosh, Saptarshi Ghosh.
"Overview of the FIRE 2021 track: Information Retrieval from Microblogs during Disasters (IRMiDis)" Proceedings of FIRE 2021 - Annual Meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, Virtual Event, December 2021.
[Link to Paper]
*Equal Contribution
Awards
Received ACM IARCS Travel Grant to attend ICWSM 2024 in Buffalo, USA.
Received Student Travel Grant to attend SIGIR 2022 in Madrid, Spain.
Best Student Paper Award at ICAIL 2021
Awarded PMRF fellowship by Ministry of Education, Govt. of India. December 2020 cycle.
Qualified for the onsite regionals of ACM ICPC 2017-18, Kolkata region, held in December 2017.
Qualified for the onsite regionals of ACM ICPC 2016-17, IIT Kharagpur region, held in December 2016.
Winner of Music Cup of the Inter IIT Cultural meet, held at IIT Kharagpur in December 2023.
Winner of Music Cup of the Inter IIT Cultural meet, held at IIT Bombay in December 2019.
Academic Activities
I'm currently working on the following broad projects:
Optimizing LLMs to improve sustainability
Detection and verification of claims on Social Media
Broad Projects that I've worked on previously:
Analysis of social media posts for mitigating disasters and epidemics
Summarizing legal case documents: Incorporating domain knowledge in general summarization algorithms
Detection of Flood Images Posted on Online Social Media
(Details of projects are given in my CV -- check above)
I have officially been a reviewer at the following conferences and journals:
ARTI Journal (2024)
ICWSM 2022 (January cycle)
ICWSM 2024 (September and January cycle cycle)
OSNEM Journal
I have organized the following shared tasks/competitions:
I have been a Teaching Assistant for the following courses at IIT Kharagpur:
Natural Language Processing, Spring 2024 (CS60075)
Social Computing, Autumn 2020 (CS60017)
Operating Systems Theory and Lab, Spring 2023 (CS30002/CS39002 )
Operating Systems Theory and Lab, Spring 2022 (CS30002/CS39002 )
Programming and Data Structures Lab, Autumn 2021 (CS19003)
Programming and Data Structures Lab, Autumn 2020 (CS19003)
Social Computing, Autumn 2020 (CS60017)
Machine Learning, Spring 2020 (CS60050)
Social Computing, Autumn 2019.
I have been a PMRF Teaching Assistant for the following courses:
Joy of Computing using Python; on NPTEL (online), 2022 Autumn (CS122)
Programming in C; at Hijli College, Kharagpur, 2022 Autumn
Introduction to Java; at Hijli College, Kharagpur, 2023 Spring
Other activities:
I manage the webpage for Complex Networks Research Group (CNeRG): [link]
Hobbies
I play the Bass Guitar for Western Technology Music Society (WTMS) of IIT Kharagpur, and listen to a lot of music. Maturing biker, novice skater, amateur gamer.
I love to watch some TV shows, movies and a few Motorsports series - Formula 1, Formula E and Moto GP. Memes and giggles are included too :)