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

Soumen Chakrabarti
NationalityIndian
Alma materIndian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Bachelor's degree)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
SpouseSunita Sarawagi
AwardsShanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (2014)
J. C. Bose National Fellowship (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science

Web Mining
Natural Language Processing
Information Retrieval

Distributed Computing
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology Bombay

Google
Carnegie Mellon University

IBM Almaden Research Center
Doctoral advisorKatherine Yelick

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]

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  1. ^ "Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize". ssbprize.gov.in.
  2. ^ "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards for 10 scientists". BusinessLine. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014". Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014. 26 September 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
  4. ^ "Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science & Technology List of recipients" (PDF). ssbprize.gov.in. 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
  5. ^ "The list of New fellows awarded during the year 2019-20 in the J C Bose Fellowship" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Indian Academy of Sciences". fellows.ias.ac.in.
  7. ^ "INSA :: Indian Fellows Elected". www.insaindia.res.in.
  8. ^ "As many as 20 IIT Kharagpur alumni including IIT Bombay Professor Soumen Chakrabarti to get Distinguished Alumnus Award 2019". India Today. 27 June 2019.
  9. ^ "IIT Bombay". www.facebook.com.
  10. ^ "Adding to the glory". KGP Chronicle. 27 June 2019.
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