{"id":2,"date":"2018-03-16T12:25:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T12:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ssikdar\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-09-05T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T19:59:55","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ssikdar\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Me<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am an incoming postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I received my Ph.D. in Sep 2021 from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nd.edu\/\">University of Notre Dame<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cse.nd.edu\/\">Department of Computer Science &amp; Engineering<\/a>\u00a0where I was advised by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www3.nd.edu\/~tweninge\/\">Dr. Tim Weninger<\/a>. I am also a member of the Center for Network &amp; Data Science (<a href=\"https:\/\/cnds.nd.edu\">CNDS<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My research centers on the intersection of formal language theory, graph theory, and data mining. More specifically, I study graph generative models using graph grammars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before this, I worked on community detection in complex networks at the Social Network Analysis Research Group at Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ph.D. Defense<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will be defending my dissertation on September 3, 2021, at 315 Stinson Remick Hall from 9:30 am &#8211; 12:00 noon EDT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oral Candidacy Exam<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will be taking my oral candidacy exam on April 15, 2020, <del>at Stinson-Remick Hall 315<\/del>&nbsp;online from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT. My proposal document can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ssikdar\/files\/2020\/04\/proposal.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, the slides <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/satyaki_slides\">here<\/a>, and the video <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/satyaki-talk\">here<\/a>&nbsp;(presentation begins around the 35-minute mark).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Justus Hibshman, Daniel Gonzalez,<strong> Satyaki Sikdar<\/strong>, and Tim Weninger. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2009.06770\">Joint Subgraph-to-Subgraph Transitions &#8212; Generalizing Triadic Closure for Powerful and Interpretable Graph Modeling<\/a>. ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining 2021.<\/li><li><strong>Satyaki Sikdar<\/strong>, Daniel Gonzalez, Trenton Ford, and Tim Weninger. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2009.08925\">The Infinity Mirror Test for Graph Models<\/a>. Submitted to <em>IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. <\/em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/satyakisikdar\/infinity-mirror\">code<\/a>]<\/li><li>Justus Hibshman, <strong>Satyaki Sikdar<\/strong>, and Tim Weninger. <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1910.08579\">Towards Interpretable Graph Modeling with Vertex Replacement Grammars<\/a>. <em>IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2019<\/em>.<\/li><li><strong>Satyaki Sikdar<\/strong>, Justus Hibshman, and Tim Weninger.&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1908.03837\">Modeling Graphs with Vertex Replacement Grammars<\/a>.&nbsp;IEEE International Conference on Data Mining 2019<\/em>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/satyakisikdar\/CNRG\">code<\/a>]<\/li><li>Corey Pennycuff,<strong> Satyaki Sikdar<\/strong>, Catalina Vajiac, David Chiang, and Tim Weninger.&nbsp;<i><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2IESM33\">Synchronous Hyperedge Replacement Graph Grammars<\/a><\/i>.&nbsp;<i>International Conference on Graph Transformation<\/i>, 2018 [<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/tweninger\/PSHRG\">code<\/a>]<\/li><li>Partha Basuchowdhuri, <b>Satyaki Sikdar<\/b>, Varsha Nagarajan, Khusbu Mishra, Surabhi Gupta, and Subhashis Majumder. <i><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1707.04459\">Fast Detection of Community Structures using Graph Traversal in Social Networks,&nbsp;<\/a><\/i><i>Knowledge and Information Systems<\/i>, 2018. [<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sna-lincom\/LINCOM\">code<\/a>]<\/li><li>Partha Basuchowdhuri, <b>Satyaki Sikdar<\/b>, Sonu Shreshtha, and Subhashis Majumder.<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2888479\"><i> Detecting Community Structures in Social Networks by Graph Sparsification.<\/i><\/a>&nbsp;<em>3rd ACM IKDD Conference on Data Science, 2016<\/em>.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me I am an incoming postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University. I received my Ph.D. in Sep 2021 from the\u00a0University of Notre Dame\u00a0in the\u00a0Department of Computer Science &amp; Engineering\u00a0where I was advised by\u00a0Dr. Tim Weninger. I am also a member of the Center for Network &amp; Data Science (CNDS). 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