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Soumen Chakrabarti

b. 1969

Indian engineer

University teacher Computer scientist
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About Soumen Chakrabarti

Born 1969. Soumen Chakrabarti is an Indian university teacher and computer scientist.

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. He was awarded the J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2019.

He is a fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the Indian National Science Academy.

He is among the distinguished alumni of IIT Kharagpur.

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Important facts

Born
1969
Birth century
20th century
Occupation
University teacher, computer scientist
Nationality
India
Education
University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Google, IBM Almaden Research Center
Awards
Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology

Family & relationships

Spouse
Sunita Sarawagi

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Soumen Chakrabarti?

Indian engineer

When was Soumen Chakrabarti born?

Soumen Chakrabarti was born in 1969.

What is Soumen Chakrabarti's occupation?

Soumen Chakrabarti is a university teacher and computer scientist.

What nationality is Soumen Chakrabarti?

Soumen Chakrabarti is Indian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Soumen Chakrabarti

· Wikidata: Q18218032

· DBpedia: Soumen Chakrabarti

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