is a group of researchers who study, analyze, and build different aspects of social systems (e.g. social web systems like Twitter, Facebook), including their security and privacy. By understanding and measuring complex networks, we try and build solutions for social good. Our work primarily derives from Data Science, Computational Social Science, Social Computing, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing.

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March 2024: Our paper "Corrective Machine Unlearning" accepted at DMLR Workshop @ ICLR 2024! |

February 2024: PK visits Charotar University of Science & Technology as part of Endowment Chair Professor visit program | Pics 1 | Pics 2 | Pics 3 |

February 2024: PK Attends ROCS at IIT Bombay | Pics |

February 2024: Our papers "Multilingual Coreference Resolution in Low-resource South Asian Languages" and "SaGE: Evaluating Moral Consistency in Large Language Models" accepted at LREC-COLING 2024!| Paper 1 | Paper 2

February 2024: PK attends ACM Academic Research and Careers for Students (ARCS) event | Pics 1 | Pics 2 | Pics 3 | Pics 4 |

February 2024: PK attends ACM Pingala Interactions in Computing | Pics 1 | Pics 2 | Pics 3 | Pics 4 |

January 2024: Precog student Tejasvi joins UT Austin | Pics

January 2024: PK attends ROCS at IIT Madras | Pics

January 2024: PK attends ACM India PhD Clinic 2024 | Pics

January 2024: Precog turns 13! | Pics

December 2023: PK visits BVRIT | Pics

December 2023: PK attends workshop on Advances in Deep Learning and Applications at IIITSC | Pics

December 2023: PK visits SRMIST | Pics

December 2023: PK inaugurates ACM Student Chapter at KLUH | Pics

December 2023: PK offers Responsible AI course at IIIT Hyd for Spring 2024 | Pics

December 2023: PK gives talk on Legal Bias in LLMs | Pics

December 2023: PK interacts with students from IIT Madras | Pics

December 2023: Prof. Lydia visits IIIT Hyd, Precog | Pics

November 2023: Precog Alum Dheeraj visits IIIT Hyd, Precog | Pics

November 2023: Mahindra University students visit IIIT Hyderabad | Pics

November 2023: PK gives technical talk on Resposible AI at JKLU Jaipur | Pics

November 2023: PK gives talk on Resposible AI at IIT Madras | Pics

November 2023: Our papers “Tight Sampling in Unbounded Networks” and "Understanding Coordinated Communities Through The Lens Of Protest-centric Narratives" accepted at ICWSM 2024 | Paper 1 | Paper 2

November 2023: Precog Alums Akshay, Aravind, and Hitkul join CMU, UofT, and Flipkart respectively | Pics 1 | Pics 2 | Pics 3

November 2023: Our paper “Tight Sampling in Unbounded Networks” released | Paper

October 2023: Precog Alums Tushar, Dipanwita, Ashwin, Aakash, Mehul and Pulak join UCSD, Georgia Tech, UPF, Goldman Sachs, Endowus, and Sprinklr respectively | Pics 1 | Pics 2 | Pics 3 | Pics 4 | Pics 5 | Pics 6

October 2023: Our paper “Game, Set, and Conflict: Evaluating Conflict and Game Frames in #indianelection News Coverage” released | Paper

October 2023: PK gives talk on Resposible AI at ACM India ROCS | Pics

October 2023: PK attends BiNDI Summit at Google Bengaluru | Pics

October 2023: Our short paper "CiteCaseLAW: Citation Worthiness Detection in Caselaw for Legal Assistive Writing" Accepted at JURIX 2023. | Paper

October 2023: Our paper, "Explaining Finetuned Transformers on Hate Speech Predictions using Layerwise Relevance Propagation" accepted at 11th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, 2023. | Paper

September 2023: Our recent work on Open Information Extraction Tool For Indic Languages covered on The Hans India | Pics

September 2023: Precog alum Shradha Sehgal receives Siebel Scholar Award for 2024 | Pics

September 2023: Our paper, "IndIE: A Multilingual Open Information Extraction Tool For Indic Languages," has been accepted for publication in the Findings of IJCNLP-AACL 2023 | Pics

September 2023: Join us for Brainstorm Fall 2023 | Pics

September 2023: Precog recruiting research assistants | Pics

August 2023: Precog alums Omkar, Pooja, Bhavyajeet, Asmit, and Abhijeet join UIUC, Columbia University, Microsoft Research, Georgia Tech, and Goldman Sachs respectively | Pic 1 | Pic 2 | Pic 3 | Pic 4 | Pic 5

August 2023: PK visits IIIT Una for Freshers 2023 Orientation Program | Pics

August 2023: PK visits Plaksha University | Pics

August 2023: Shashwat Goel visiting Berkley for Stanford Existential Risk Institute ML Alignment Theory Scholars Program | Pics

August 2023: PK interacts with students at IIITDM Kancheepuram as a part of Freshers 2023 orientation program | Pics

August 2023: Precog alums Ansh Khandelwal, Shrey Gupta and Shaurya Dewan join CMU | Pics

August 2023: PK inaugurates ACM student chapter at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology | Pics

August 2023: PK gives ACM Indian Eminent Speaker talk at Symbiosis University of Applied Sciences | Pics

August 2023: Triansh Sharma joins Rubrik | Pics

August 2023: PK gives keynote at JayPee Institute of Information Technology (JIIT) | Pics

August 2023: PK meets newly graduated Anmol Goel with his MS thesis | Pics

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Exciting Work
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Hindi Legal Documents Corpus

HLDC: the Hindi Legal Documents Corpus (HLDC), a corpus of 900K legal documents in Hindi.

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SyMCoM

A collection of English-Hindi code-mixed datasets from a syntactic lens

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Lockstep Behaviors on Google Play

Investigating how fraud is intertwined with labor and poses a threat

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Diagnosing Data from ICTs

A first step to a holistic qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the Digital Green as an ICT

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“A Virus Has No Religion”

“A Virus Has No Religion”: Analyzing Islamophobia on Twitter During the COVID-19 Outbreak

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KCNet

KCNet: Kernel-based Canonicalization Network for entities in Recruitment Domain

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Spy The Lie

Spy The Lie: Fraudulent Jobs Detection in Recruitment Domain using Knowledge Graphs

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CoMeT

CoMeT: Towards Code-Mixed Translation Using Parallel Monolingual Sentences

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AbuseAnalyzer

AbuseAnalyzer: Abuse Detection, Severity and Target Prediction for Gab Posts

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(Un)Masked

(Un)Masked COVID-19 Trends from Social Media

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Fake News Detection

Automating Fake News Detection System using Multi-level Voting Model

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SpotFake

SpotFake: A Multi-Modal Framework for Fake News Detection