• PhD (Sep 2010- present): Department of Computer Science, New York University, USA .

• MS (2008): Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, INDIA. [MS Thesis: Shikshak: A Framework for an Intelligent Tutoring System]

• B.Tech (2004): Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Kalyani, INDIA

Projects

• Drought characterization and Prediction from Online Media: From a corpus of news articles, identification of occurrences and magnitude of drought in different locations and based on past drought cases, characterizing the causes and effects of drought in a particular location. Using these past trends, a model is being trained to predict drought in a particular location given recent news articles from that location. Methodology is based on spatial- temporal relationship analysis, topic modeling and event extraction from the news documents.
• Location-Specific Summarization of Climatic and Agricultural Trends: Mining information from the web to collect data about agriculture, climate change, identify and predict the presence of different problems in these areas in a particular location.

• Structured summarization of unstructured text: In some cases, users search a website where the website text is in an unstructured form. However, the user query is in a structured format. Changing the backend text into a structured form can greatly improve the search quality, search speed and the presentation of the results. This project is aimed to extract key features from such texts and prepare a structured summary of the entire content, taking Craigslist ads as a case.

Publications

• Rakesh Agrawal, Sunandan Chakraborty, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Anitha Kannan, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi, (2012). "Empowering Authors to Diagnose Comprehension Burden in Textbooks", KDD, 2012. Beijing, China
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• Sunandan Chakraborty, Scot Dalton, Yaw Nyarko and Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, (2012). "Computing the Rate of Disappearance of Cropland Using Satellite Images", International Conference of Computational Sustainability (CompSust, 2012). Copenhagen, Denmark
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• Rakesh Agrawal, Sunandan Chakraborty, Sreenivas Gollapudi, Anitha Kannan, and Krishnaram Kenthapadi, (2012). "Quality of Textbooks: An Empirical Study", ACM DEV 2012, Atlanta, USA
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• Sunandan Chakraborty, Jay Chen, Mangala Kanthamani, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, (2011). "On the Feasibility and Utility of Web based Educational Lesson Plans", ACM DEV 2012, Atlanta, USA
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• Sunandan Chakraborty, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, (2011). "Location Specific Summarization of Climatic and Agricultural Trends", WWW 2011, Hyderabad, India
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• Aishwarya Lakshmi Ratan, Sunandan Chakraborty, Pushkar V. Chitnis, Kentaro Toyama, Keng Siang Ooi, Matthew Phiong, Mike Koenig, (2010). "Managing Microfinance with Paper, Pen and Digital Slate". ICTD 2010, London, UK.
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• Sunandan Chakraborty,Devshri Roy, Anupam Basu, (2008). "Semiautomatic Annotation of Test Materials in an ITS Authoring System". International Workshop of Cognitive Aspects in Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (CIAWES, 2008) held in conjunction ICCE, 2008. Taipei, Taiwan. [PDF]

• Sunandan Chakraborty,Devshri Roy, Anupam Basu, (2008). "Shikshak: An Architecture for an Intelligent Tutoring System". International Workshop of Cognitive Aspects in Intelligent and Adaptive Web-based Educational Systems (CIAWES, 2008) held in conjunction ICCE, 2008. Taipei, Taiwan. [PDF]

• Sunandan Chakraborty, Tamali Bhattacharya, Plaban Bhowmick, Anupam Basu and Sudeshna Sarkar, (2007). "Shikshak: An Intelligent Tutoring System Authoring Tool for Rural Education". ICTD 2007, Bangalore, India. [PDF]

• Plaban Bhowmick, Samiran Sarkar, Sudeshna Sarkar, Anupam Basu and Sunandan Chakraborty, (2007). "Samvidha: A ICT System for Personalized Offline Internet Access for Rural Schools". ICTD2007, Bangalore, India. [PDF]

Research Experience

• Research Intern, Search Labs, Microsoft Research Lab Silicon Valley, USA (Summer, 2011)
• Intern, Team-SECRET, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France (Oct, 2009 - June, 2010)
• Research Intern, Microsoft Research Lab India, India (November, 2008 - September, 2009)
• Senior Project Asst., Communication Empowerment Lab, IIT Kharagpur, India (July, 2004 - October, 2008)