Deepak's Activities

General Articles/Videos/Expert Comments



Mind Science, Science Articles for General Readers, Deccan Chronicle and Asian Age, 2016 - 2018



Media Mentions




Research Funding


Funding as Principal Investigator or Lead Role

  • "Responsible Disinformation Detection with an Emphasis on Global South", Queen's Global Partnership Development Fund, 2022-23. Value: £9,950 (Partners: Cochin University, IIT Palakkad)
  • "Fairness in Machine Learning", GIAN Course with Dr. Sahely Bhadra at IIT Palakkad. 2020. Value: $12,000
  • "Spatio-temporal Analytics for Litter Management", Invest Northern Ireland, Belfast, UK. (Main Partner: Professional Drone Network Ltd.). Duration: 2020 - 2021. Value: £15,000
  • "NLP and Computer Vision for the Insurance Sector", Knowledge Transfer Partnership Project with Liberty IT, Belfast, UK. Duration: 2020 - 2022. Value: £343,601
  • "Deep Learning for Multimedia", Intertradeireland Fusion Project with Wave Break Media, Cork, Ireland. Duration: 2020 - 2022. Value: £56,000
  • QUB and IIIT-Delhi, ASEM-DUO Student Exchange Fund for 2020 Exchanges, €9,000
  • "Collusion and Fake News", UKIERI-SPARC Fund (Partner: IIIT-Delhi), 2019-2020, £13,700
  • "Collusion and Fake News: Are social networks being orchestrated in favor of fake news?", SPARC Programme of MHRD India (Main Partner: IIIT-Delhi, Other Partners: Cochin University and Nanyang Technological University), 2019-2021, INR 68,99,000
  • "SpanHDI: Spatial Analysis of Human Development in India", Jan - July 2017, Global Challenges Research Fund Award, Dept. for the Economy, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Value: £19,124 (Project Partners: QUB Geography and Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
  • "Team Shape Analytics", Knowledge Transfer Partnership Project with StatSports Group, Newry, UK. Duration: 2018 - 2020. Value: £169,340

Co-Investigator with Significant Involvemnent

  • Co-I: "RELAX: Relaxed Semantics Across the Data Analytics Stack", 2023-2027, EU Horizon Europe Doctoral Training Network (funded by UKRI), Value: £900k (PI: Hans Vandierendonck)
  • Co-I: "Detecting at Risk Mental States" (Phase 3), 2022-2024, Small Business Research Initiative of the Department of Health Northern Ireland. Value: £150k (PI: Donncha Hanna, QUB Psychology)
  • Co-I: "Levehulme Interdisciplinary Centre on Algorithmic Solutions" (LINAS), Leverhulme Trust. Duration: 2021 - 2026. Value: £1.35million
  • Co-I: "Information Extraction for Insurance", Invest Northern Ireland, Belfast, UK. (Partners: Belfast Metropolitan College, MapCover). Duration: 2020 - 2021. Value: £33,250
  • Co-I: "Detecting At Risk Mental States", 2019-2022, Small Business Research Initiative of the Department of Health Northern Ireland. Value: £74,994 (PI: Donncha Hanna, QUB Psychology)
  • Co-I (50% ownership): "Emotion Analysis on Reviews", June 2018 - June 2019, Project funded by Adoreboard Inc., Belfast. Value: £62,669 (PI: Anna Jurek-Loughrey, QUB Computer Science)
  • Co-I: "Data-driven Intelligent Energy Management for Environmentally Sustainable Energy Access", April 2017 - March 2020, UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) Thematic Partnerships Project in Data Science (project led by IIT Gandhinagar and Uni. of Edinburgh). Value: £173,281
  • Academic Partner (50% ownership): "Emotion Analysis for Product Assessment", KTP Project with Adoreboard Ltd., Belfast, March 2017 - June 2018. Value: £127,499 (PI: Anna Jurek-Loughrey, QUB Computer Science)
  • Co-I: "Developing Digital Phenotyping to Predict At Risk Mental States", 2018-2019, Small Business Research Initiative of the Department of Health Northern Ireland. Value: £50,364 (PI: Donncha Hanna, QUB Psychology)

Other Projects

  • Co-I: "Hidden Heritage in Majuli: From the Past to the Future", Oct 2017 - Mar 2018, Global Challenges Research Fund Award, Dept. for the Economy, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. Value: £50,000 (PI: M. Satish Kumar, QUB Geography)


Students and Supervision


Research Students (Formal Supervision - Primary Supervisor indicated for co-supervision)

  • Nora Poloni-Gallagher, PhD (2022 - Present) (with Prof. Muiris MacCarthaigh)
  • Marc Elliott, PhD (2021 - Present)
  • Stanley Terence Simoes, PhD and Marie Curie Early Career Researcher, Ongoing (2021 - Present)
  • Karli Gibson, PhD (2021 - Present) (with Dr. Michael Bourne)
  • Shania Kirk, PhD (2021 - Present) (with Dr. Ciaran O'Kelly)
  • Emma McAllister, PhD (2021 - Present) (with Prof. Muiris MacCarthaigh)
  • Adwait Parsodkar, PhD (IIT Madras) (2021 - Present) (with Prof. Sutanu Chakraborti)
  • Pritam Deka, PhD, Ongoing (2019 - Present) (with Dr Anna Jurek-Loughrey)
  • Colleen O'Sullivan, PhD (2019 - Present) (with Dr. Yingfen Hsia)
  • Martins Dogo, MPhil, Ongoing (2018 - Present)
  • Alimuddin Melleng, PhD, Ongoing (2018 - Present) (with Dr Anna Jurek-Loughrey)
  • Srashti Kaurav, MS (IIT Madras) (2020 - 2022), graduated 2022 (with Prof. Sutanu Chakraborti)
  • Sowmya Sundaram, PhD (IIT Madras) (2018 - 2020), graduated 2020
  • Savitha Abraham, PhD (IIT Madras) (2018 - 2020), graduated 2020
  • Connel McKeown, PhD (QUB) (2018 - 2020) (with Prof. Muiris MacCarthaigh), graduated 2020
  • Colm Sweeney, MPhil (QUB) (2017 - 2019), graduated 2019, employed with Pramerica, Letterkenny, Ireland

Research Students (Informal Supervision)

  • Dr. Anil Bandhakavi, PhD, Robert Gordon University (UK), 2012-2017 [Supervisor: Prof. Nirmalie Wiratunga] (Current: Data Scientist, SentiSum, UK)
  • Dr. Rami Alkhawaldeh, PhD, University of Glasgow (UK), 2013-2016 [Supervisor: Prof. Joemon Jose] (Current: Asst. Professor, University of Jordan, Jordan)
  • Ankita Likhyani, PhD, IIIT Delhi (India), 2014-2020 [Supervisor: Dr. Srikanta Bedathur]
  • Anoop VS, PhD, IIITMK (India), 2015-2020 [Supervisor: Dr. Asharaf S.]
  • Anoop Kadan, PhD (Ongoing), University of Calicut (India), 2017-Present [Supervisor: Dr. Lajish VL]
  • Stanley Simoes, MS, IIT Madras (India), 2015-2018 [Supervisor: Prof. Deepak Khemani]

Research Associates and Fellows

  • Anish Mathew (IIT Palakkad), RA on the D-DIEM Project, June - July 2018
  • Carl Duffy, RA on the SPAN-HDI Project, Feb - July 2017
  • Soumali Banerjee, Remote RA (JNU-based) on the SPAN-HDI Project, Feb - July 2017



Professional Memberships, Activities and Recognition




Tutorials


  • Fairness in Unsupervised Learning (with Joemon Jose and Sanil V)
    at the CIKM 2020 Conference, Galway, Ireland. Tutorial Homepage
  • Machine Learning for Automatic Word Problem Solving (with Sowmya Sundaram and Savitha Abraham)
    at the ECML PKDD 2019 Conference, Würzburg, Germany Info
  • Analytics over the Hows and the Whys (with Dinesh Garg and Shirish Shevade)
    at the ICWSM 2018 Conference, Stanford, CA
  • Analytics over Question-Answer Archives
    at the ICON 2017 Conference, Kolkata, India PPT
  • Similarity Search: Navigating the choices for Similarity Operators (with Prasad Deshpande)
    at the WISE 2014 Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece Slides Info
    Also Keynote Talk at ICICT 2014 Conference, Kochi, India Info Slides
  • Entity Linking: Detecting Entities within Text (with Sayan Ranu)
    at the COMAD 2014 Conference, Hyderabad, India Info Slides
  • Spatio-Temporal Indexing: Current Scenario, Challenges and Approaches (with Prasad Deshpande
    and Aditya Telang) at the COMAD 2012 Conference, Pune, India Slides Info


Invited Talks, Panels and Keynotes


  • Keynote Talk at Workshop on Media and Communication in a Networked World, Mar 2023, Mar Ivanios College, Thiruvananthapuram Media Coverage
  • Keynote Talk at National Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Analytics (CIDA 2023), Mar 2023, University of Calicut, Kerala
  • Invited Talk at Workshop on AI for Journalists, Kerala Media Academy, Mar 2023, Kochi, India Media Coverage
  • Keynote Talk at Intl. Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Science (ICCIDS 2023), Feb 2023, Chennai India
  • Panelist at "Elections and technology: empowering people" Panel at Second Workshop on AI for Credible Elections, AAAI 2023, February 2023
  • Keynote Talk at 1st Intl. Conf. on Speech and Language Technologies for Low Resource Languages (SPELLL 2022), Nov 2022, Chennai, India
  • Invited Talk at IBM Research - IIITD Workshop on "Data Quality for AI", August 2021
  • Panelist on Fairness Panel at 6th Outlier Detection and Description Workshop (KDD 2021), August 2021
  • Invited Talk at Mathrubhumi Ask Expert Webinars, August 2021 News Report Video
  • Invited Talk at KTU Faculty Development Programme on AI and DS: A Pedagogical Approach, hosted at SJCET Pala, August 2021
  • Invited Talk at Workshop on Trustworthiness of AI Systems and its Impact on Society in Developing Nations, January 21-22, IIIT Delhi, India
  • Key Speaker at Webinar on Cues for Quality Research Publications in Computer Science, February 27-28, Cochin University, India
  • Keynote Talk at ICDSE 2020 Conference, December 2020, Kochi, India Poster Slides Video
  • Invited Talk at Online Faculty Development Programme (July 2020) organized by MIT-ADT University, India LINK
  • Invited Talk at IIT Delhi, February 2020
  • Invited Talk at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK, February 2020
  • Invited Talk at Combating Fraud Activities using Data Science Workshop, Jan 2020, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India
  • Panelist on Artificial Intelligence at BelTech 2019 Conference PIC
  • Invited Talk at CIDA 2019 Conference, University of Calicut, Kerala, India [Topic: Data Science vs. Fake News]
  • Invited Talk at ICDSE 2018 Conference, Kochi, India [Topic: Can Data Science Combat Fake News?]
  • Keynote Talk at ICSSP 2016 Conference, Kollam, India Info
  • Keynote/Plenary Talk at ICACC 2016 Conference, Kochi, India Info
  • Keynote Talk at ICDSE 2016 Conference, Kochi, India Info
  • Keynote Talk at ICICT 2014 Conference, Kochi, India Info Slides


Workshop Organization


  • Co-chair, New Trends in Similarity Search (NTSS 2011) (with Prasad Deshpande)
    at the EDBT 2011 Conference, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Co-chair, SMS-based FAQ Retrieval (with LV Subramaniam and Danish Contractor)
    at the FIRE 2011, 2012 and 2013 Meetings, India


Research/Collaboration Visits


  • Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - Delhi, India, May 2019 (Host: Tanmoy Chakraborty)
  • Cochin University of Science and Technology (Dept. of Comp. Sc.), India, May 2019 (Host: Santhosh Kumar)
  • Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India, February 2019 (Host: Naran Pindoriya)
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, March and July, 2017 (Host: Amit Thorat)

Final Year Project Students


  • Sean Neill, MEng 2017 (Topic: Similarity Operators)
  • Ovidijus Parsiunas, MEng 2017 (Topic: Social Media Analytics)
  • Niall Doran, BEng 2021 (Topic: Fair Retrieval)
  • Dean Dunwoodie, BEng 2021 (Topic: Personalization and Polarization)
  • Sarah Ferris, BEng 2021 (Topic: Political Biases)
  • Cliona O'Doherty, BEng 2021 (Topic: Tangential Similarity Search)
  • Jessica Rodgers, BEng 2021 (Topic: Crime Reporting Bias)
  • Michael Woolsey, BEng 2021 (Topic: Fair Retrieval)
  • Garbhan Harrison, BEng 2020 (Topic: Fair Clustering)
  • Hannah Moorehead, BEng 2020 (Topic: Political Biases)
  • Christopher Morrow, BEng 2020 (Topic: Tangential Similarity Search)
  • Chloe Rocks, BEng 2020 (Topic: Fair Outliers)
  • Nathan Wray, BEng 2020 (Topic: Fair Clustering)
  • Anish Mathew, BTech 2019 (IIT Palakkad) [Supervisor: Sahely Bhadra]
  • Aaron Dawson, BEng 2019 (Topic: Word Semantics)
  • Donal Mallon, BEng 2019 (Topic: UK Petitions and Parliamentary Debates)
  • Gavin Fitzpatrick, BEng 2019 (Topic: Research Article Title Keywords and Citations)
  • Michelle Petticrew, BSc 2019 (Topic: Tracking People Mobility across Centuries)
  • Paul Kelly, BEng 2019 (Topic: Brand Loyalty)
  • Stephen Atkinson, BEng 2019 (Topic: Health Fake News and Refutations)
  • Aoibheann Siobhan McCloskey, BEng 2018 (Topic: Twitter and Emotions)
  • Lewis Benson, BEng 2018 (Topic: Clustering and Entity Linking)
  • Tony Win Ho Shek, BEng 2018 (Topic: Similarity Search)
  • Richard Sayers, BEng 2018 (Topic: Sensationalism Identification)
  • Alex Crowley, BEng 2018 (Topic: Answering Templates)
  • Stephanie Allen, BEng 2018 (Topic: Psychological Risk)
  • Jessica Winter, BEng 2017 (Topic: Deep Learning on Images)
  • Aaron Daly, BEng 2017 (Topic: Similarity Operators)
  • Richard Fox, BEng 2017 (Topic: Multi-view Data Analytics)
  • Scott Adams, BEng 2017 (Topic: Entity Analysis of Text)
  • Adit Krishnan, M.Tech 2016 (IIT Madras) [Supervisor: Sayan Ranu] (Current: PhD Student, UIUC)