Expertise
  • Text and data mining
  • Machine learning
  • Big data analytics
  • Computational sustainability
  • Information and Computation for Development (ICTD)
  • Computational social science

Sunandan Chakraborty focuses on data science for social good. Building computational models that leverage vast data sets, he applies them to a broad spectrum of problems in social and environmental science, agriculture, health, and other fields. He draws on diverse data sets (news, social media, images, etc.) and uses tools such as big data analytics, machine learning, information extraction, and time series analysis to compile information and discover knowledge that can lead to solutions.

Communities
Bioinformatics, Management Information Systems, Information Science/Systems, Computer Science
Degrees
PhD, New York University, 2015
MS, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2008
BTech, University of Kalyani, Computer Science & Engineering, 2004