Laboratory for Computational Social Systems (LCS2) is a research group led by Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi). Broad research interests of this group includes Data Mining, Complex Networks, Social Computing, Natural Language Processing and Data-driven Cybersecurity.
Current Openings
- There is one PhD position and one RA position available under a DST-funded project. The work will involve data mining, data-driven understanding of different security aspects in online media. Interested candidates may directly send their CV to Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty (tanmoy@iiitd.ac.in) or lcs2@iiitd.ac.in with the subject line "Interested for PhD position under DST project".
News
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October 22, 2018
Paper accepted at WSDM 2019: Aditya Chetan, Brihi Joshi, Hridoy Sankar Dutta and Tanmoy Chakraborty. CoReRank: Ranking to Detect Users Involved in Blackmarket-based Collusive Retweeting Activities, 12th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2019.
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October 21, 2018
Two papers accepted at CODS-COMAD:
- Tanya Chowdhury (Ex IIITD Undergrad, currently at Myntra), Tanmoy Chakraborty. CQASUMM: Building References for Community Question Answering Summarization Corpora, ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data, 2018.
- Sonu Gupta, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru and Tanmoy Chakraborty. MalReG: Detecting and Analyzing Malicious Retweeter Groups, ACM India Joint International Conference on Data Science and Management of Data, 2018.
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October 20, 2018
LCS2 Member Lavina Jain has been given a Software Engineering internship opportunity with Facebook London for Summers 2019.
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October 18, 2018
Paper accepted at IEEE BigData Conference: Ankesh Anand, Kshitij Gorde, Joel Moniz, Noseong Park, Tanmoy Chakraborty and Bei-Tseng Chu. Phishing URL Detection with Oversampling based on Text Generative Adversarial Networks, IEEE International Conference on BigData Conference, 2018.
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September 21, 2018
Dr. Tanmoy receives “Google India Faculty Award” (Domain: Data Mining and Modeling).
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September 20, 2018
Brihi Joshi, 3rd year UG student and an LCS2 member has been awarded the Google Women Techmakers Scholarship, 2018. It contains a $1000 award and a retreat to the Singapore office of Google, all expenses paid.
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September 12, 2018
Hridoy Sankar Dutta has been selected to attend the Young Scientists’ Conference at India International Science Festival 2018, Lucknow where he will be presenting a poster on his work on Collusion in Online Social Networks.
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September 12, 2018
Brihi Joshi has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration India, 2018. It is produced by AnitaB.org India and presented in partnership with ACM India.