Dr. Niloy Ganguly is a Surojit and Sanchayita Chatterjee Chair Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and
Engineering at IIT Kharagpur and a Fellow of Indian Academy of Engineering.
He was a Visiting (W-3) Professor in Leibnitz University of Hannover for two years for the period 2021 - 2022. He has also spent 2 years as a Research Scientist in
Technical University, Dresden, before joining IIT Kharagpur in 2005, and has
risen to the rank of Professor in 2014. He has done his Btech from IIT Kharagpur
and his Phd from IIEST, Shibpur. His research interests lie primarily in Social
Computing, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and Network Science. He has published in 80
journals and 200 conferences, several of which are in reputed international
venues such as ICLR, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, CHI, WWW, CSCW, ICWSM, INFOCOM,
IEEE and ACM Transaction etc. He has served in the organizing committee of COMSNETS, NetSciCom,
JCDL, WWW, DEBS
CODS and IndoML. Prof Ganguly’s work has been recognized through awards by NSF, Cisco,
NetApp, Samsung, and Yahoo!, among others. He has received prestigious research
grants and projects, notably from Data Transparency Lab, IMPRINT, ITRA, Intel,
HPE, Adobe, Microsoft Research, Accenture, BEL, and TCS. He has graduated 22 Ph.D.
and 10 M.S. students during this tenure. He is the founding member of the Complex
Networks Research Group (CNeRG), comprising faculty members, research scholars,
and other students affiliated to the department. The group is a success story in
itself, with several long-standing impactful collaborations, and presence in
reputed venues across domains such as Social Computing, Machine Learning and
Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Network Science, Networked Systems,
etc.