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 include Data Mining, Complex Networks, Social Computing, Natural Language Processing and Data-driven Cybersecurity.
Current Openings
- Few RA and PhD (preferred) positions are available in the areas of Data Mining, Natural Language Processing and Social Media Analysis.
Eligibility criteria (For PhD positions): BTech/MTech/MSc in CS/ECE/IT/Math (with strong coding skill in Python).
Salary (For PhD positions): As per the standard PhD salary offered in India
Phd Application process: Apply through regular Institute PhD admission portal and send your updated CV to tanmoy@iiitd.ac.in and lcs2@iiitd.ac.in
RA Application process: Please send your updated CV to tanmoy@iiitd.ac.in and lcs2@iiitd.ac.in
News
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March 13, 2019
- Aditya Chetan has received a visiting opportunity at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken. He will be working in Department 5 (D5) - Databases and Information Systems in the broad areas of NLP and Data Mining.
- Brihi Joshi has received the Snap Research Scholarship 2019. She has been awarded a scholarship as well as an internship opportunity at Snap Inc. Research, LA. She’s one of the 8 scholars selected globally and the only one from India! Further details
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March 09, 2019
Paper accepted at IEEE/ACM JCDL: Dattatreya Mohapatra, Abhishek Maiti, Sumit Bhatia, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Go Wide, Go Deep: Quantifying the Impact of Scientific Papers through Influence Dispersion Trees, JCDL 2019
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February 10, 2019
Paper accepted at IEEE CIM: Sudhesh Solomon, Srinivas P Y K L, Amitava Das, Björn Gambäck, Tanmoy Chakraborty. Understanding the Psycho-Sociological Facets of Homophily in Social Network Communities, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (IF: 6.611)
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February 04, 2019
Media coverage of ACSS 19 appeared in The Statesman, Hindustan, Dainik Jagaran, Punjab Kesari and Rashtiya Sahara.
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February 03, 2019
Coverage of ACSS 19 appeared in online portals of Career 360 and Higher Education Plus.
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January 21, 2019
Paper accepted at TDSC: Tanmoy Chakraborty, Sushil Jajodia, Jonathan Katz, Antonio Picariello, Giancarlo Sperlì, Vs Subrahmanian. FORGE: A Fake Online Repository Generation Engine for Cyber Deception, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
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January 11, 2019
Dr. Tanmoy’s recent work on “Ensemble algorithms for community detection” covered by Science Trends.
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January 09, 2019
Brihi Joshi has been awarded an ACM-W scholarship to attend WSDM 2019.