Precog

in University of Maryland campus now. L to R:
Vedant, Saksham, Shaan pursing Ph.D., Ph.D., and Masters respectively, and Mansi pursuing Masters.

Interested in understanding how Verified accounts on Twitter differ from non-verified accounts? What is the probability of getting a non-verified account verified? Join the Masters thesis public presentation / defense of Indraneil 1630hrs IST, Sept 14, 2019. Two papers of Indraneil relevant to the thesis are "Elites Tweet? Characterizing the Twitter Verified User Network”http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/pubs/ElitesTweet-ICDE19.pdf & "What sets Verified Users apart? Insights, Analysis and Prediction of Verified Users on Twitter”http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/pubs/What_sets_Verified_Users_apart-WebSci19.pdf

Look who all were in campus in the last few weeks -- 1. Saying adieu to students is always hard, Shubham Singh is heading to University of Illinois at Chicago for Ph.D. in CS, Dhruv Kuchhal to Georgia Tech for Ph.D. in CS, Shubham Gupta to Carnegie Mellon University for Masters. 2. Kanay Gupta & Sathvik students from spent some time with us. Was super fun having Precogs from & interact in person. 3. Thanks Sahar Siddiqui for stopping by, was great catching-up and hearing your internship experience in . Sahar is pursuing her Masters at New York University.

Vaibhav Garg will receive Best M.Tech. Thesis Award (CSE) during Convocation on Aug 31st for his work on "Detecting Fake Profiles on Online Matrimony". Thesis:http://precog.iiitd.edu.in/Publications_files/Vaibhav_Garg_Masters_Thesis.pdf Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/precogatIIITD/detecting-fake-profiles-on-online-matrimony Video of the defense: https://www.facebook.com/ponnurangam.kumaraguru/videos/2920964184595542/ Work was done in collaboration with InfoEdge. Congratulations Vaibhav!