Soham Poddar
Scholar

Soham Poddar

Google Scholar ID: PIIZaa0AAAAJ
Senior Research Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
natural language processinggreen ailegal aicomputational social sciencedeep learning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
386
 
H-index
8
 
i10-index
7
 
Publications
16
 
Co-authors
9
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • [To appear] Brevity is the soul of sustainability: Characterizing LLM response lengths, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
  • [To appear] Towards Sustainable NLP: Insights from Benchmarking Inference Energy in Large Language Models, Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) 2025
  • How COVID-19 has Impacted the Anti-Vaccine Discourse: A Large-Scale Twitter Study Spanning Pre-COVID and Post-COVID Era, 18th International AAAI Conference of Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2024
  • MuLX-QA: Classifying Multi-Labels and Extracting Rationale Spans in Social Media Posts, ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) 2024
  • CAVES: A dataset to facilitate explainable classification and summarization of concerns towards COVID vaccines, 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference (Resource Track) 2022
  • Winds of Change: Impact of COVID-19 on Vaccine-related Opinions of Twitter users, 16th International Conference on Web and Social Media (AAAI ICWSM) 2022
  • Legal Case Document Summarization: Extractive and Abstractive Methods and their Evaluation, The 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL- IJCNLP) 2022, Best paper award
  • Incorporating Domain Knowledge for Extractive Summarization of Legal Case Documents, Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL) 2021
Background
  • Currently a PhD Research Intern at Hewlett Packard Labs, Bangalore, India. Earlier, a PMRF Research Scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, working on 'Optimizing LLMs to improve sustainability' and 'Social Media Analytics for mitigating Disasters and Epidemics' under the guidance of Dr. Saptarshi Ghosh.
Miscellany
  • Github profile: https://github.com/sohampoddar26, Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PIIZaa0AAAAJ, My CV: CV.pdf