Dr. Sourav Kumar Dandapat

		Dr. Sourav Kumar Dandapat Assistant Professor PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Ph: +91-612-302 8345 sourav[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Research Areas	:	Wireless Networking Mobile Social Computing Human Computer Interaction
No. of PhD Students	:	Rimjhim
Professional Experience	:	Assistant professor at Indian Institute of Technology Patna (since 29th February 2016) Postdoctoral researcher at KAIST, South Korea (From 1st June, 2015 to 18th February, 2016) Associate Member of Technical Staff at Magma Design Automation India Pvt. Ltd. (From 3rd December 2007 to 6th February, 2009) Software Engineer at IBM, ISL (From 15th July 2005 to 30th November, 2007)
Awards & Honours	:	Our work related to password based activity which got published in CHI, 2015 draw a huge attention of media. It is covered in more than 40 print media across the world including MIT Tech Report, The Guardian, The Hindu, Times of India and also broadcasted in Rajyasabha TV
Other professional activities	:	Organizing committee member of SenSys, 2015 Program Committee member of NetSciCom 2016
Publications	:	Journal Papers: Rimjhim, S. K. Dandapat, “Tagging Multi-label Categories to Points of Interest from Check-in Data”,IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence(Accepted), 2022 S. Roy, M.Bhanu, S. Saxena, S. K. Dandapat, J. Chandra, “Towards an orthogonality constraint-based feature partitioning approach to classify veracity and identify stance overlapping of rumors on twitter”,Expert System with Application, (Vol-208), 2022 Rimjhim, S. K. Dandapat, “Is gender-based violence a confluence of culture? Empirical evidence from social media”,Peer J Computer Science, (Vol-8), 2022 S. Roy, M.Bhanu, S. Saxena, S. K. Dandapat, J. Chandra, “gDART: Improving Rumor Verification in Social Media with Discrete Attention Representations”,Journal of Information Processing and Management, (Vol -59(3)), 2022 P.Biswas, S. K. Dandapat, A. S. Sairam, “Ripple: An approach to locate k nearest neighbours for location-based services”,Information Systems, 2022 (Vol -105) S. Priya, M. Bhanu S. K. Dandapat, J. Chandra, “Mirroring Hierarchical Attention in Adversary for Crisis Task Identification: COVID-19, Hurricane Irma”,18th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2021 Rimjhim, N.Cheke, J. Chandra, S. K. Dandapat, “Understanding the Impact of Geographical Distance on Online Discussions”,IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 7(4) 2020 S.Priya, M.Bhanu, S. K. Dandapat, K.Ghosh, J.Chandra, “TAQE: tweet retrieval-based infrastructure damage assessment during disasters”,IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 7(2) 2020 S. Roy, B.K.Suman, J.Chandra, S. K. Dandapat, “Forecasting the future: leveraging rnn based feature concatenation for tweet outbreak prediction”,Proceedings of the 7th ACM IKDD CoDS and 25th COMAD, 2020 R. Sequeira, A. Gayen, N. Ganguly, S. K. Dandapat, J.Chandra, “A large-scale study of the Twitter follower network to characterize the spread of prescription drug abuse tweets”,IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 6(6) 2019 S.Priya, S.Singh, S. K. Dandapat, K.Ghosh, J.Chandra, “Identifying infrastructure damage during earthquake using deep active learning”,IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining,2019 R. Chakraborty, M. Bhavsar, S. K. Dandapat, J.Chandra, “Tweet summarization of news articles: An objective ordering-based perspective”,IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining,2019 S.Priya, R. Sequeira, J.Chandra, S. K. Dandapat, “Where should one get news updates: Twitter or Reddit”,Online Social Networks and Media, 9, 2019 M.Bhanu, S.Priya, S. K. Dandapat, J.Chandra, J. Mendes-Moreira, “Forecasting traffic flow in big cities using modified tucker decomposition”,International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, 2018 S.Priya, M.Bhanu, S. K. Dandapat, K.Ghosh, J.Chandra, “Characterizing infrastructure damage after earthquake: A split-query based ir approach”, IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2018 R. Chakraborty, M. Bhavsar, S. K. Dandapat, J.Chandra, “A network based stratification approach for summarizing relevant comment tweets of news articles”,International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (EWISE), 2017 S. K. Dandapat, S.Pradhan, B. Mitra, R. Roy Chowdhury and N. Ganguly, “Activpass: your daily activity is your password”, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2015 S.Pradhan, S. K. Dandapat, N. Ganguly, B.Mitra and P.De, “Aggregating inter-app traffic to optimize cellular radio energy consumption on smartphones”, 7th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks(COMSNETS), 2015 S. K. Dandapat, S.Pradhan, N. Ganguly, R. Roy Chowdhury, “Sprinkler: distributed content storage for just-in-time streaming”, Proceeding of the 2013 workshop on Cellular networks: operations, challenges, and future design (Cellnet), 2013 S. K. Dandapat, S.Pradhan, N. Ganguly, R. Roy Chowdhury, “Distributed content storage for just-in-time streaming”, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, 2012 S. K. Dandapat, R. Niranjan, N. Ganguly, “Framework for collaborative download in wireless mobile environment”, IEEE 13th International Conference on Mobile Data Management, 2012 S. K. Dandapat, B.Mitra, R. Roy Chowdhury, N. Ganguly, “Smart association control in wireless mobile environment using max-flow”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 9(1), 2011 S. K. Dandapat, B. Mitra, R. Roychoudhury, and N. Ganguly, “Fair bandwidth allocation in wireless network using max-flow,” HiPC 2010 S. K. Dandapat, B. Mitra, R. Roychoudhury, and N. Ganguly, “Fair bandwidth allocation in wireless network using max-flow,” in ACM, SIGCOMM, 2010 S. K. Dandapat, B. Mitra and N. Ganguly, “Flexible Load Balancing in Wireless Mobile Environment”, PhD Forum, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, India, January 2010. Conference Papers: S. K. Dandapat, S. Pradhan, B. Mitra, R. Roychoudhury, and N. Ganguly, "ActivPass: Your Activity is Your Password" CHI, 2015, Seol, South Korea S. Pradhan, S. K. Dandapat, N. Ganguly, B. Mitra and P. De, "Aggregating Inter-App Traffic to Optimize Cellular Radio Energy Consumption on Smartphones" Comsnet 2015, Bangalore, India S. K. Dandapat, S. Pradhan, and N. Ganguly, "Offloading Cellular Network" ACM I-CARE 2013 conference organized by IBM , Delhi, India S. K. Dandapat, S. Pradhan, R. Roychoudhury, and N. Ganguly, "Sprinkler : Distributed content storage for just-in-time streaming" ACM CellNet 2013 workshop co-located with MobiSys , Taipei, Taiwan S. K. Dandapat, B. Mitra, R. Roychoudhury, and N. Ganguly, “Fair bandwidth allocation in wireless network using max-flow,” HiPC 2010, Goa, India, Dec 2010. S. K. Dandapat, S. Jain, R. Roychoudhury, and N. Ganguly, "Distributed Content Storage for Just-in-Time Streaming" ACM, SIGCOMM , Helsinki, Finland, August 2012 (Poster) S. K. Dandapat, B. Mitra, R. Roychoudhury, and N. Ganguly, “Fair bandwidth allocation in wireless network using max-flow,” in ACM, SIGCOMM, Delhi, India, August 2010, pp. 407–408. (Poster) S. K. Dandapat, B. Mitra, R. Roychoudhury, and N. Ganguly, "Framework for Collaborative Download in Wireless Mobile Environment" IEEE Mobile Data Management , Bangalore, India, July, 2012 (PhD Forum) S. K. Dandapat, B. Mitra and N. Ganguly, “Flexible Load Balancing in Wireless Mobile Environment”, PhD Forum, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, India, January 2010. (PhD Forum)