Soumen Chakrabarti

Soumen Chakrabarti is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His work bridges graph theory, natural language processing, and knowledge representation, focusing on scalable solutions for complex information retrieval problems. He has held visiting positions at Carnegie-Mellon University and Google.

• Education: B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur, PhD from UC Berkeley
• Key research areas: Graph Neural Networks, Knowledge Graphs, Code-Switched Text Analysis, Temporal Reasoning

His recent publications emphasize neural graph matching, code-switched NLP, and multi-modal QA systems, often integrating symbolic reasoning with deep learning. Awards include the WWW 1999 Best Paper Award and ECML/PKDD 2008 Best Student Paper.

He leads projects like CRUSH4SQL for text-to-SQL parsing and CSAW for annotated web search. His lab collaborates with IBM and Google on graph representation learning and temporal knowledge graph completion.