I am presently working as a 'Post Doctoral Researcher' at the Department D5 (Database and Information Systems) of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII), Saarbrücken, Germany under Professor Gerhard Weikum, since July, 2019. Prior to that, I have been a 'Visiting Scholar' at the same group since November, 2018. Here, I am exploring advanced question-answering over knowledge graphs and text corpora.

I obtained my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, in June, 2019 (thesis submitted in October, 2018). My supervisor was Dr. Bivas Mitra. There, I was a member of the Complex Network Research Group (CNeRG). My Ph.D. work mostly focused on studying different structural and functional properties of large scale multilayer social networks and designing various recommender systems for the benefit of the users belonging to those networks.

• Current focus: Question-answering over knowledge bases and text
• General interests: Complex Networks, Information retrieval, Social Computing, Machine Learning

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• 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. (Short Paper)
• 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]
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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)
• Mayank Singh, Soumajit Pramanik and Tanmoy Chakraborty, "PubIndia: A Framework for Analyzing Indian Research Publications in Computer Science", D-Lib Magazine, Volume 21, Number 11/12, November/December 2015.
• Soumajit Pramanik, Pranay Hasan Yerra and Bivas Mitra, paper on "Whom-to-Interact: Does Conference Networking Boost Your Citation Count?", The 2^nd IKDD (India chapter of ACM SIGKDD) Conference on Data Sciences (CoDS), Bangalore, India, March 18-21, 2015.
• Amiya Halder, Soumajit Pramanik and Arindam Kar, paper on "Histogram based Evolutionary Dynamic Image Segmentation", The 4^th International Conference on Electronics Computer Technology (ICECT), IEEE Xplore, Kanyakumari, India, April 6-8, 2012.
• Amiya Halder, Soumajit Pramanik, paper on "An Unsupervised Dynamic Image Segmentation using Fuzzy Hopfield Neural Network based Genetic Algorithm", International Journal of Computer Sciences Issues (IJCSI) Vol 9, Issue 2, No 2, March 2012.
• Amiya Halder, Soumajit Pramanik, Arindam Kar, paper on "Dynamic Image Segmentation using Fuzzy C-Means based Genetic Algorithm", International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA) Volume 28- No.6, August 2011.
• Amiya Halder, Soumajit Pramanik, Swastik Pal, Nilabha Chatterjee and Arindam Kar, paper on "Edge Detection: A Statistical approach", The 3^rd International Conference on Electronics ComputerTechnology (ICECT), Kanyakumari, India, April 8-10, 2011.
• Amiya Halder, Soumajit Pramanik, Swastik Pal, Nilabha Chatterjee and Arindam Kar, paper on "Modal and Mutational Agglomeration based Automatic Color Image Segmentation", International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV), Hong Kong, China, December 28 - 30, 2010.

• July 2013 - June 2019: Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at IIT Kharagpur, India (SAP Labs India Doctoral Fellow)
  Thesis: Analyzing Structure and Dynamics of Multilayer Networks : An Application Centric Study [pdf] (Supervisor: Dr. Bivas Mitra)
• July 2011 - June 2013: M.Tech. (Master of Technology, Computer Science) student at Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India
  Thesis: Understanding the Performance of Expanded Queries (Supervisor: Dr. Mandar Mitra)
• July 2007 - June 2011: B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering) student in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) at St. Thomas' College of Engineering & Technology, Kolkata, India
  Thesis: Image Segmentation Using Edge Detection (Supervisor: Amiya Halder)
• May 2005 - April 2007: Schooling (Class XI & XII) at Hindu School, Kolkata
• May 1997 - April 2005: Schooling (Class III - X) at Hare School, Kolkata
• May 1995 - April 1997: Schooling (Class I & II) at Scottish Church Collegiate School, Kolkata