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Punyajoy saha

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Student, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

social computingnatural language processing

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Academic Achievements

- Paper on Fear speech in Indian public WhatsApp groups to be presented at ARCS 2022
- Invited talk in Understanding and Automating Counterspeech workshop organized by CRASSH
- Our paper on hateful user detection won the prestigious Ted Nelson Newcomer Award at ACM Hypertext 2021
- 1st in both subtasks of Abusive and Threatening Language Detection for Tweets in Urdu at FIRE 2021
- Paper on Fear speech in Indian public WhatsApp groups to be presented at IC2S2 2021
- Tutorial on 'Hate speech- Detection, Mitigation and beyond' accepted at ICWSM 2021
- 1st, 2nd, and 1st in offensive language detection in Tamil, Kannada, and Malayalam respectively at Dravidian workshop at EACL 2021
- Paper on Fear speech in Indian public WhatsApp groups accepted at WWW 2021
- Paper on Explainable hate speech dataset accepted at AAAI 2021
- World rank 11th in Hatememe detection competition organized by Facebook
- Paper on temporal effects of hate speech got accepted at CSCW 2020
- Hate alert covered by Huggingface CEO on Twitter
- Paper on multilingual hate speech detection accepted at ECML PKDD 2020
- Winner of Facebook and Social Science One data grant
- Joined PhD in January 2020
- Misogyny detection recognized by MIT Technical Review

Research Experience

Teaching Assistant: AI and Ethics, Spring 2021 (CS60016); Algorithms-1, Autumn 2021 (CS21003); AI and Ethics, Spring 2022 (CS60016); Information Retrieval, 2023 (CS60092)
External Teaching Assistant: As part of PMRF deliverables, teaching assistant for the NPTEL-NLP course and taking a course on “Programming in C” in Hijli College, Kharagpur

Education

PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, 2020 - Present, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Supervisor: Prof. Animesh Mukherjee
B.Tech in Computer Science and Technology, 2015-2019, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur
CBSE XII Science, 2014-2015, Kendriya Vidyalaya R.K Puram Sec-4, New Delhi

Background

Punyajoy Saha is a PMRF research scholar in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal. He is currently doing research under the supervision of Prof. Animesh Mukherjee and is also a member of the CNeRG research group. His current research interests lie in the intersection of computational social science and natural language processing, particularly in developing better human-in-the-loop mitigation strategies for harmful speech such as hate speech and fear speech.

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