Sakthi Balan

Sakthi Balan is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the School of Engineering, Shiv Nadar University Chennai. His academic work spans Web Science and Data Analytics, focusing on Social Network Analysis, Bias & Privacy in the Web, and Action Recognition in Sports Videos. He actively collaborates with institutions like IIIT Bangalore, as seen in his June-July 2025 research visit to their Web Science Lab.

• Research Trends: His work bridges computational methods with societal challenges, including epidemiological modeling for information diffusion, privacy implications in web tracking, and sports analytics.
• Scientific Awards:
  • Senior Member of ACM (2024)
• Student Advising:
  • Nirmal Kumar Sivaraman (PhD, 2024) on endogenous/exogenous information spread.
  • Arpan Gupta (PhD, 2023) on cricket stroke recognition.