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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = Soumen Chakrabarti<br />
| alma_mater = [[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur]] (Bachelor's degree)<br><br />
[[University of California, Berkeley]] (PhD)<br />
| awards = [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]] (2014)<br><br />
[https://www.serbonline.in/SERB/jcbose_fellowship?HomePage=New J. C. Bose National Fellowship] (2019)<br />
| fields = [[Computer Science]]<br><br />
[[Web Mining]]<br><br />
[[Natural Language Processing]]<br><br />
[[Information Retrieval]]<br><br />
[[Distributed Computing]]<br><br />
| doctoral_advisor = [[Katherine Yelick]]<br />
| workplaces = [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay]]<br><br />
[[Google]]<br><br />
[[Carnegie Mellon University]]<br><br />
[[IBM Almaden Research Center]]<br />
| spouse = [[Sunita Sarawagi]]<br />
}}<br />
'''Soumen Chakrabarti (সৌমেন চক্রবর্তী)''' is an Indian computer scientist and professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at [[IIT Bombay]]. He is known for his work on<br />
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* The [[CLEVER project|CLEVER Web page ranking system]] based on hyperlinks, related to [[PageRank]].<br />
* [[Focused crawler]]s, which are Web crawlers guided by page topic classifiers.<br />
* Keyword search on graph databases, later popularized by [[Facebook Graph Search|Facebook graph search]].<br />
* [[Entity linking|Named entity disambiguation]] in Web text.<br />
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He is author of an [http://store.elsevier.com/Mining-the-Web/Soumen-Chakrabarti/isbn-9780080511726/ early book] on Web search and mining.<br />
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He was awarded the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=499|title=Awardee Details: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize|website=ssbprize.gov.in}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar awards for 10 scientists |url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/states/shanti-swarup-bhatnagar-awards-for-10-scientists/article6450071.ece |publisher=BusinessLine |date=26 September 2014 |accessdate=28 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014 |url=http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=110063 |publisher=Dr. P.S.Ahuja Announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award 2014 |date=26 September 2014|accessdate=28 September 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://ssbprize.gov.in/WriteReadData/LatestUpdates/201409260153504671808ssb_awardees2014.pdf|title=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science & Technology List of recipients |date= 2014|website=ssbprize.gov.in |access-date=2020-07-25}}</ref><br />
He was awarded the J. C. Bose National Fellowship in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiascienceandtechnology.gov.in/sites/all/themes/vigyan/images/banner_articles/JC%20Bose%20Fellows%202019-20.pdf|title=The list of New fellows awarded during the year 2019-20 in the J C Bose Fellowship}}</ref><br />
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He is a fellow of the [[Indian National Academy of Engineering]], the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fellows.ias.ac.in/|title=Indian Academy of Sciences|website=fellows.ias.ac.in}}</ref> and the [[Indian National Science Academy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.insaindia.res.in/ref3.php|title=INSA :: Indian Fellows Elected|website=www.insaindia.res.in}}</ref><br />
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He is among the distinguished alumni of [[Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur|IIT Kharagpur]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/notification/story/iit-kharagpur-to-conferre-distinguished-alumnus-award-to-20-alumni-1557044-2019-06-27|title=As many as 20 IIT Kharagpur alumni including IIT Bombay Professor Soumen Chakrabarti to get Distinguished Alumnus Award 2019|date=June 27, 2019|website=India Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/iitbombay/posts/2534233296601455|title=IIT Bombay|website=www.facebook.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kgpchronicle.iitkgp.ac.in/adding-to-the-glory/|title=Adding to the glory|website=KGP Chronicle|date=27 June 2019 }}</ref><br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen/ Soumen Chakrabarti's Home Page]<br />
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