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Paper accepted in WebSci 2026 (websci26.org) Title- DTInf: Dynamic Topic-Aware Influence Maximization with Incremental Embedding Updates Authors- Arpan Dam, Hunny Chandra, Bivas Mitra Congrats🎉

Paper accepted in WebSci 2026 (websci26.org) Title-FairGCL: Embedding Fairness for Influence Maximization with Graph Contrastive Learning Authors- Arpan Dam, Sougata Roy, Bivas Mitra Congrats🎉

Paper accepted in PAKDD 2026 (pakdd2026.org) Title- Recommending under-represented influential researchers using geographically aware contrastive learning Authors- Arpan Dam, Sougata Roy, Sayan Pathak, Bivas Mitra Congrats!!🎉

Happy to share that I have submitted my #PhD #thesis on "Auditing and Mitigating Biases in Face Recognition and Gender Analyzer Systems". Last 5 yrs were an amazing learning experience. Will forever cherish my time @cnerg Excited for what comes next!

We bid a warm farewell to @siddsjaiswal, a valued member of CNeRG since 2021. We wish you every success as you embark on your new journey. All the very best for your future endeavors-go shine! 🎉📷✨

We bid a heartfelt farewell to @SayantanAdak8, an invaluable member of CNeRG since 2020. We wish you great success as you begin your new journey as a Research Consultant at sahl.ai, under the Saudi Data & AI Authority. All the best for your future endeavors.

We bid a heartfelt farewell to @kishalaydaskd, an invaluable member of CNeRG since 2022. We wish you great success as you begin your new journey as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Yale University, United States. All the very best for your future endeavors🎉✨

Paper accepted in WWW 2026 (www2026.thewebconf.org) Title- Bowling with ChatGPT: On the Evolving User Interactions with Conversational AI Systems Authors: Sai Keerthana Karnam, Abhisek Dash, Krishna Gummadi, @Animesh43061078 , Ingmar Weber, and Savvas Zannettou Congrats! 🎉

Paper accepted in EACL 2026 (2026.eacl.org) Title- Benchmarking the Energy Savings with Speculative Decoding Strategies Authors: Rohit Dutta, Paramita Koley, Soham Poddar, Janardan Misra, Sanjay Podder, Naveen Balani, Saptarshi Ghosh, @gangulyniloy Congrats! 🎉

Paper accepted in EACL 2026 (2026.eacl.org) Title- Router-Suggest: A Router-based Framework for Auto-Completions in Visually-Grounded Conversations Authors: SANDEEP MISHRA, Devichand Budagam, Anubhab Mandal, Bishal Santra, @pawang_iitk , Manish Gupta Congrats! 🎉

Paper accepted in EACL 2026 (2026.eacl.org) [Long Paper] Title- Chat-Ghosting: Methods for Auto-Completion in Dialog Systems Authors: Anubhab Mandal, Sandeep Mishra, Bishal Santra, Tushar Abhishek, @pawang_iitk , Manish Gupta Congrats! 🎉

Authors: Manoj Balaji Jagadeeshan, Samarth Bhatia, Pretam Ray, Harshul Raj Surana, Akhil Rajeev P, PRIYA MISHRA, ANNARAO KULKARNI, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Prathosh AP, @pawang_iitk

Paper accepted in EACL 2026 (2026.eacl.org) Title- Chandomitra: Towards Generating Structured Sanskrit Poetry from Natural Language Inputs Congrats! 🎉

Paper accepted in ESWA (sciencedirect.com/journal/expert… ) Title: FairRec: An expert recommendation framework for fair and topic-aware influence maximization Authors: Arpan Dam, Sayan Pathak, Bivas Mitra Congrats!🎉

Paper accepted in ICWSM 2026 (icwsm.org/2026/index.html) Title- Real-World Challenges in Fake News Detection: Dealing with Posts by Cold Users Authors: Sai Keerthana Karnam, Abhirup Kundu, Jashn Arora, Manish Jain, @Animesh43061078 Congrats! 🎉

Paper accepted in AAAI’26-AIA 2026 (aaai.org/conference/aaa…) Title- AURA: Affordance-Understanding and Risk-aware Alignment Technique for Large Language Models Authors: @SayantanAdak8, Pratyush Chatterjee @Somnath49347260, @RimaHazra2, Somak Aditya, @Animesh43061078

I’ll be presenting our poster today at EMNLP in Suzhou, China! Would love to chat about the work and other related topics if you’re around. Presentation Info: Hall C, Session 11, Nov 6, Thursday, 16:30-18:00 @cnerg @pawang_iitk @somakaditya

Authors: @NaqueeRizwan, Nayandeep Deb, @Sarthak, Vishwajeet Singh Solanki, Kiran Garimella, @Animesh43061078 Paper in ACM Digital Library - dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/37… GitHub - github.com/hate-alert/Tox… HuggingFace - huggingface.co/datasets/nrizw…

Congrats @NaqueeRizwan for presenting the paper "Toxicity Begets Toxicity: Unraveling Conversational Chains in Political Podcasts" at ACM Multimedia, 2025, held in Dublin, Ireland!

Paper accepted in TMLR 2025(jmlr.org/tmlr/) Title- MemeSense: An Adaptive In-Context Framework for Social Commonsense Driven Meme Moderation Authors: @SayantanAdak8, @Somnath49347260, Rajarshi Mandal, Avik Halder, Sayan Layek, @RimaHazra2, @Animesh43061078 Congrats!🎉