Soumen Chakrabarti (সৌমেন চক্রবর্তী) is an Indian computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at

IIT Bombay The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay or IITB) is a public research university and technical institute in Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is considered as one of the best engineering universities in India and is top ranked ...

. He is known for his work on * The CLEVER Web page ranking system based on hyperlinks, related to

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. *

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s, which are Web crawlers guided by page topic classifiers. * Keyword search on graph databases, later popularized by

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. * Named entity disambiguation in Web text. He is author of a
early book
on Web search and mining. He was awarded the

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize The Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology (SSB) is a science award in India given annually by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for notable and outstanding research, Applied science, applied or Fundamenta ...

in 2014. He is a fellow of the

Indian National Academy of Engineering The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), founded in 1987, comprises India's engineers, engineer-scientists and technologists covering the entire spectrum of engineering disciplines. The Academy is registered under the Societies Reg ...

, the

Indian Academy of Sciences The Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore was founded by Indian Physicist and Nobel Laureate C. V. Raman, and was registered as a society on 24 April 1934. Inaugurated on 31 July 1934, it began with 65 founding fellows. The first general meet ...

, and the

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. He is among the distinguished alumni of

IIT Kharagpur Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT Kharagpur) is a public institute of technology established by the Government of India in Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. Established in 1951, the institute is the first of the IITs to be established ...

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External links

Soumen Chakrabarti's Home Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chakrabarti, Soumen 1969 births Living people Engineers from Maharashtra Place of birth missing (living people) Recipients of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Engineering Science Engineers from West Bengal