Rajesh Sharma
Visiting Faculty, Plaksha University
PhD, Nanyang Technological University
Area of Expertise:
Social Computing Social Network Analysis Computational Social Science
Rajesh is presently (from January 2021 - present) working as Associate Professor and is leading the Computational Social Science Group (https://css.cs.ut.ee/) at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu (UT), Estonia. Rajesh also holds adjunct faculty positions at IIT Ropar, IIIT Delhi, and Lakehead University, Canada. His group works on problems related to understanding societal issues such as misinformation, hate speech, segregation, mental health, users' behavior using digital traces such as financial transactions, mobile call data records and more importantly social media data. Group often applies techniques from AI, NLP and most importantly network science/social network analysis.
Earlier, Rajesh joined University of Tartu in August 2017 and worked as a senior researcher till December 2020. From Jan 2014 to July 2017, he has held Research Fellow and postdoc positions at the University of Bristol, Queen's University Belfast, UK and the University of Bologna, Italy. Prior to that, he completed his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in December 2013. He has also worked in the IT industry for about 2.5 years after completing his Master's from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, India.
Rajesh has co-authored over 80 research articles and regularly publishes in journals such as:
1) IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
2) IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
3) Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing
4) International Journal of Data Science and Analytics
5) Plos One
6) Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining
and international conferences, such as AAAI ICWSM, PerCom, CIKM, ACM WebSci, COLING, NAACL, IJCNN, ASONAM and IEEE Big Data.
