Research Interest

• Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Complex Networks, Social Computing

  Academic Background

• Ph.D, Department of CSE, IIT Kharagpur (2013 - 2019)
• M.Tech, Department of CS, ISI, Kolkata (2011 - 2013)
• B.Tech, Department of CSE, St. Thomas' College of Engg. and Tech. (2007 - 2011)

  Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, IIT Bhilai (Aug 2020 - Present)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrucken (July 2019 - July 2020)
• Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrucken (Nov 2018 - June 2019)

  Teaching

• Advanced Machine Learning – Winter 2025
• Deep Learning for Computer Vision – Monsoon 2024, Winter 2026
• Natural Language Processing – Monsoon 2022, 2024, 2025
• Artificial Intelligence – Winter 2022, Monsoon 2023, Winter 2024, Monsoon 2025
• Information Retrieval – Winter 2021, 2022, 2023
• Data Structures – Monsoon 2021, Winter 2021
• Data Analysis and Visualization Lab – Winter 2023
• Programming for Data Science & AI Lab – Monsoon 2022, 2023
• AI & ML Lab – Winter 2024, Summer 2025, Monsoon 2025

  Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

1. PB-PAPP: An Efficient Mechanism for Real-Time Survivor Detection in Disaster Regions
   Gowry Sailaja V, Soumajit Pramanik, Subhajit Sidhanta, and Nirnay Ghosh.
   IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2026.
2. Multilayer Louvain: A Modularity based Community Detection Algorithm for Multilayer Networks
   Soumajit Pramanik, Prishni Rateria, Raphael Tackx, Mayank Shukla, Jean-Loup Guillaume, and Bivas Mitra.
   Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Springer, 2025.
3. UniGEN-DDI: Computing Drug–Drug Interactions using a Unified Graph Embedding Network
   Somnath Mondal, Debarghya Datta, Soumajit Pramanik, and Rukmankesh Mehra.
   IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), 2025.
4. Reinforcement Learning-Based Autonomous UAV Navigation for CO Source Localization
   Pritika Marik, Harshit Kumar Sahu, Chiranjib Ghosh, Amit Ruidas, Soumajit Pramanik, and Avishek Adhikary.
   IEEE Sensors Letters,2025.
5. UNIQORN: Unified Question Answering over RDF Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Text
   Soumajit Pramanik, Jesujoba Alabi, Rishiraj Saha Roy, and Gerhard Weikum.
   Journal of Web Semantics, Elsevier, 2024.
6. Epidemic Spreading on Directed Networks and Twitter Cascades
   Tyll Krueger, Bivas Mitra, Tomasz Ozanski, and Soumajit Pramanik.
   IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2024.
7. Deep Learning Based Link Prediction for Minimizing Maximum Betweenness
   Aashish, Parul Diwakar, Venkata Narendra Kotyada, Rishi Ranjan Singh, and Soumajit Pramanik.
   International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, 2024.
8. Unsupervised Named Entity Disambiguation for Low Resource Domains
   Debarghya Datta and Soumajit Pramanik.
   Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024.
9. On the role of micro-categories to characterize event popularity in meetup
   Ayan Kumar Bhowmick, Soumajit Pramanik, Sayan Pathak, and Bivas Mitra.
   AAAI ICWSM, 2021.
10. Zhen Jia, Soumajit Pramanik, Rishiraj Saha Roy and Gerhard Weikum, "Complex Temporal Question Answering on Knowledge Graphs", The 30^th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), November 1-5, 2021 (To be held online). [Preprint] [Data+Demo] [Code] [Slides] [Video] [Poster]
11. Ayan Kumar Bhowmick, Soumajit Pramanik, Sayan Pathak and Bivas Mitra, "On the Role of Micro-categories to Characterize Event Popularity in Meetup", The 15^th International AAAI Conference On Web And Social Media (ICWSM), June 7-10, 2021 (held online).
12. Azin Ghazimatin, Soumajit Pramanik, Rishiraj Saha Roy and Gerhard Weikum, "ELIXIR: Learning from User Feedback on Explanations to Improve Recommender Models", The 30^th Web Conference (WWW), April 19-23, 2021 (held online). [Preprint] [Data+Code] [Slides] [Video]
13. Ayan Kumar Bhowmick, Soumajit Pramanik, Sayan Pathak and Bivas Mitra, "On the Splitting Dynamics of Meetup Social Groups", The 14^th International AAAI Conference On Web And Social Media (ICWSM), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, June 8-11, 2020.
14. Xiaolu Lu, Soumajit Pramanik, Rishiraj Saha Roy, Abdalghani Abujabal, Yafang Wang and Gerhard Weikum, Answering Complex Questions by Joining Multi-Document Evidence with Quasi Knowledge Graphs, The 42^nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), Paris, France, July 21-25, 2019. [Code+Data] [Demo] [Amazon Blog] [Preprint] [Video]
15. Soumajit Pramanik, Rajarshi Haldar, Anand Kumar, Sayan Pathak and Bivas Mitra, "Deep Learning driven Venue Recommender for Event-based Social Networks", Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE, April, 2019.
16. Soumajit Pramanik, Surya Teja Gora, Ravi Sundaram, Niloy Ganguly and Bivas Mitra, "On the Migration of Researchers across Scientific Domains", The 13^th International AAAI Conference On Web And Social Media (ICWSM), Munich, Germany, June 11-14, 2019.
17. Soumajit Pramanik, Mohit Sharma, Maximilien Danisch, Qinna Wang, Jean-Loup Guillaume and Bivas Mitra, "Easy-Mention: A model driven mention recommendation heuristic to boost your tweet popularity", International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA), Springer, March, 2018.
18. Soumajit Pramanik, Raphael Tackx, Anchit Navelkar, Jean-Loup Guillaume and Bivas Mitra, "Discovering Community Structure in Multilayer Networks", The 4^th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), Tokyo, Japan, October 19-21, 2017.
19. Soumajit Pramanik, Qinna Wang, Maximilien Danisch, Jean-Loup Guillaume and Bivas Mitra, "Modeling Cascade Formation in Twitter amidst Mentions and Retweets", Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), Springer, August, 2017.
20. Soumajit Pramanik, Maximilien Danisch, Qinna Wang, Sumanth Bandi, Anand Kumar, Jean-Loup Guillaume and Bivas Mitra, "On the Role of Mentions on Tweet Virality", The 3^rd IEEE Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), Montreal, Canada, October 17-19, 2016.
21. Soumajit Pramanik, Midhun Gundapuneni, Sayan Pathak and Bivas Mitra, "Can I Foresee the Success of My Meetup group?", IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), San Francisco, CA, USA, August 18-21, 2016.
22. Soumajit Pramanik, Midhun Gundapuneni, Sayan Pathak and Bivas Mitra, "Predicting Group Success in Meetup", The 10^th International AAAI Conference On Web And Social Media (ICWSM), Cologne, Germany, May 17-20, 2016. (Short Paper)

  Awards

1. Awarded SAP Labs India Doctoral Fellowship [July 2014 - June 2017].

2. Awarded Travel grants to attend CODS 2015 (from conference organizers), ICWSM 2016 (from conference organizers), ASONAM 2016 (from Microsoft Corporation), DSAA 2017 (from IEEE CIS), ICWSM 2019 (from conference organizers).

3. Ranked 2^nd in M.Tech. at ISI, Kolkata.

4. Joint winner of the "TCS Best Student Project Award" in M.Tech. at ISI, Kolkata.

5. Ranked 209^th in GATE 2011 (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering 2011), conducted by IIT Madras.