Biography

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at University of California, Davis, advised by Prof. S. (Shyhtsun) Felix Wu. My research work is in areas of Social Computing, Social Search Engines, and Social Network Theory and Analysis. Summary of my research projects are available here.

In addition, I am also currently working with World International Patent Organization (WIPO) as an independent consultant along with Prof. Travis Lybbert of Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, UC Davis to develop software systems based on text processing and keyword extraction models to analyze trademark and economic data.

I also have completed the Business Development Program for graduate students at University of California Entrepreneurship Academy in September 2010. I grew up in Kolkata, India and completed my bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University.

Technical Skills

• Languages: Java, Python, XML, JSON
• Databases: MySQL
• Familiar with PHP, Facebook & Wikipedia Platform APIs
• Operating Systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows

Experiences

• Independent Consultant, World Intellectual Property Organization, Dec. 2011 - Present. Details.
• Graduate Student Researcher, Computer Science Department, University of California Davis, Jul. 2008 - Present. Details.
• Graduate Student Researcher, Agricultural & Resource Economics Department, University of California Davis, Jun. 2011 - Present. Details.
• Visiting Student, IBM T.J. Watson Labs, New York, Jul. 2010 - Aug. 2010. Details.
• Project Member, Hewlett Packard Labs, India, Feb. 2006 - Aug. 2006. Details.
• Student Researcher, Jadavpur University, India, Jul. 2006 - Jun. 2007. Details.

Publications

• Your Best might not be Good Enough: Ranking in Collaborative Social Search Engines.
  Prantik Bhattacharyya, Jeff Rowe, Shyhtsun Felix Wu, Karen Haigh, Niklas Lavesson, and Henric Johnson.
  In CollaborativeCom '2011: 7th International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing, Florida, USA, October 2011.
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• The Evolution of Ego-Centric Triads: A Microscopic Approach toward Predicting Macroscopic Network Properties.
  Mina Doroud, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Shyhtsun Felix Wu, and Diane Felmlee
  In SocialCom '11: Proceeding of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Boston, USA, October 2011.
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• Analysis of User Keyword Similarity in Online Social Networks
  Prantik Bhattacharyya, Ankush Garg, and S. Felix Wu
  In Social Networks Analysis and Mining Journal (by Springer), 2010.
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• SocialWiki: Bring Order to Wiki Systems with Social Context
  Haifeng Zhao, Shaozhi Ye, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Jeff Rowe, Ken Gribble, and S. Felix Wu
  In SocInfo '10: Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Social Informatics, Laxenburg, Austria.
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• Information Flow and Search in Unstructured Keyword based Social Networks
  Ankush Garg, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Charles U. Martel, and S. Felix Wu
  In SMW '09: Proceedings of the Social Mobile Web Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, August 2009.
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• Design and Implementation of Davis Social Links OSN Kernel.
  Thomas Tran, Kelcey Chan, Shaozhi Ye, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Ankush Garg, Xiaoming Lu, and S. Felix Wu
  In SNAS '09: Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Networks, Applications, and Systems, Boston, USA, August 2009.
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• Social Network Model based on Keyword Categorization
  Prantik Bhattacharyya, Ankush Garg, and S. Felix Wu
  In ASONAM '09: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, Athens, Greece, July 2009.
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• Davis Social Links: Leveraging Social Networks for Future Internet Communication
  Lerone Banks, Prantik Bhattacharyya, Matthew Spear, and S. Felix Wu
  In FIST '09: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Trust and Security in the Future Internet, Seattle, USA, July 2009.
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Talks

• Design and Analysis of Keyword based Online Social Networks. ECS 289M: Online Social Networking Systems; Special Topics on Online Social Networks, Department of Computer Science, UC Davis, 2009.
• Information Flow and Search in Unstructured Keyword based Social Networks. In SMW '09: Social Mobile Web Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, August 2009.
• Social Network Model based on Keyword Categorization. In ASONAM '09: International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, Athens, Greece, July 2009.

Teaching Experience

• Operating Systems and System Programming [Facebook Group, Coursepage] under Prof. S. (Shyhtsun) Felix Wu
  Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, Jan. 2010 - Mar. 2010.
• Basic Concepts of Computing [Coursepage] under Prof. Nina Amenta
  Teaching Assistant, University of California, Davis, Oct. 2007 - Dec. 2007

Awards

• Travel Grant Award to attend Sixth GENI Engineering Conference (GEC6) at Salt Lake City.
• University of California, Davis Fellowship, Winter Quarter 2008.
• University of California, Davis Non Resident Tuition Fellowship, Fall 2007 - Spring 2008.
• Merit Certificate in Mathematics, Junior Mathematics Olympiad, India, 2000.

Contact

My office address is: 2110 Watershed Sciences. (Visit!)

Mailing address:

2063 Kemper Hall, 1 Shields Avenue

Davis, California - 95616

My facebook profile is here: prantik

My flickr stream is here: pbhattacharyya.

Last Edited: January 2012.