Soumen Chakrabarti
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AlmamaterIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Bachelor's degree)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
SpouseSunita Sarawagi
Soumen Chakrabarti | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Bachelor's degree) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Spouse | Sunita Sarawagi |
| Awards | Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2014) J. C. Bose National Fellowship (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science Web Mining |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Google |
| Doctoral advisor | Katherine Yelick |
Soumen Chakrabarti (সৌমেন চক্রবর্তী) is an Indian computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. He is known for his work on
- The CLEVER Web page ranking system based on hyperlinks, related to PageRank.
- Focused crawlers, which are Web crawlers guided by page topic classifiers.
- Keyword search on graph databases, later popularized by Facebook graph search.
- Named entity disambiguation in Web text.
He is author of an early book on Web search and mining.
He was awarded the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2014.[1][2][3][4] He was awarded the J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2019.[5]
He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences,[6] and the Indian National Science Academy.[7]
He is among the distinguished alumni of IIT Kharagpur.[8][9][10]
