Shweta Suran

Shweta Suran is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin, Germany) with affiliations as an External Researcher at Tallinn University of Technology (School of Information Technologies, Department of Software Science) and IT University of Copenhagen (Collective Intelligence Research Group). She previously held roles at TalTech, The Open University (UK), and Krishna Engineering College.

• Doctor of Philosophy (2022) in Computer Science, Tallinn University of Technology
• Research Master's Degree (2014) in Knowledge Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology

Her research focuses on Collective Intelligence, Collective Behaviour, Social Network Analysis, Data Mining, and Digital Image Processing. She explores how individuals interact with online content, the impact of conversational affordances on deliberation quality, and correlations between social media preferences, media choices, and socio-economic/political factors.

Her recent publications include work on a digital collaborative platform for the silver economy (2023), frameworks for collective intelligence (2020), pathfinding in medical imaging (2014), and AI applications in spatial data infrastructure (2019-2021). She co-supervised Sijo Arakkal Peious (2019 Master's thesis).

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024)
• Seal of Excellence from European Commission (2023)
• SAP Fellowship Award (2016)
• Gold Medal at SRM University (2014)

She contributed to projects like the EU Green Deal-aligned Waterway Safety Management program (2020-2021) and cost-effective 3D spatial data infrastructure (2019-2021), with funding totaling €1,996,000. Her work bridges ICT, collective behavior, and societal challenges.