Biography

Suman Maity is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Missouri S&T. Prior to this role, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted by Prof. Roger Levy. Before that, he spent couple of years as a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Science of Science and Innovation (CSSI) and The Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University working with Prof. Dashun Wang. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, where he was advised by Prof. Animesh Mukherjee. He was also the recipient of IBM PhD Fellowship and Microsoft Research India PhD Fellowship Award.

His research interests lie in the interdisciplinary areas of Social Computing, Science of Science, Social NLP and Responsible Machine Learning. His research contributions has been published in reputed international conferences and journals such as WWW, ICWSM, CSCW, AAMAS, ACL, Physical Review E etc. He has served as Senior PC member/PC member/reviewer for AAAI, WWW, ICWSM, CSCW, CHI, TCSS, KNOSYS, Physica A, Neurocomputing and others.

Fully funded Ph.D positions are available starting Fall 2024. Please send me an email with your resume/CV if you are interested.

Research Interests

Social Computing, Science of Science, Social NLP, Responsible Machine Learning

Professional Experience

• 2021 – 2023, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2018 – 2021, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University

Education

• 2014 – 2018, PhD in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
• 2011 – 2014, M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kharagpur
• 2007 – 2011, B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, NIT Durgapur