Rumi Ghosh

Post Doctoral
Palo Alto

Biography

Rumi Ghosh is a post-doctoral researcher in Social Computing at HP Labs.  She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Southern California in 2012.  She earned a Bachelors  and Masters Degree in Mathematics and Computing from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

 

Research interests

Mathematical modeling and development of new
scalable algorithms for data extraction, information abstraction and  mining and analysis of large-scale, dynamic and evolving networks.

Publications

  • Kristina Lerman and Rumi Ghosh, "Network structure, topology, and dynamics in generalized models of synchronization",Physical Review E, Vol. 86, Issue 2, 2012
  • Kristina Lerman, Suradej Intagorn, Jeon Hyung Kang and Rumi Ghosh, “Using Proximity to Predict Activity in Social Networks”, in Proc. of the Int. World Wide Conference, 2012 
  •  Rumi Ghosh, Tsung-Ting Kuo, Chu-Nan Hsu, Shou-De Lin and Kristina Lerman,“Timeaware Ranking in Dynamic Citation Networks ” in Proc. of ICDM workshop on Mining Communities and People Recommenders (COMMPER), 2011
  • Kristina Lerman and Rumi Ghosh, “Rethinking Network Structure” in Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN 2011), 2011
  • Greg Ver Steeg, Rumi Ghosh and Kristina Lerman, “What Stops Social Epidemics? ,” in Int.  Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-11), 2011
  •  Rumi Ghosh and Kristina Lerman, “A Framework for Quantitative Analysis of Cascades in Networks,” in Int. Conf. on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2011
  • Rumi Ghosh and Kristina Lerman, “A Parameterized Centrality Metric for Network Analysis,” Physical Review E, Vol. 83, Issue 6, 2011
  • Rumi Ghosh and Kristina Lerman, “Predicting Influential Users in Online Social Networks,” in Proc. of KDD workshop on Social Network Analysis (SNA-KDD), 2010
  • Kristina Lerman, Rumi Ghosh and Jeon Hyung Kang, “Centrality Metric for Dynamic Network Analysis” in Proc. of KDD workshop on Mining and Learning from Graphs (MLG), 2010
  • Kristina Lerman and Rumi Ghosh,  “Information Contagion: An empirical study of the Spread of News on Digg and Twitter Social Networks,” in Int.  Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, 2010
  • Rumi Ghosh and Kristina Lerman, “Structure of Heterogeneous Networks,” in IEEE Conf. on Social Computing, 2009
  • Rumi Ghosh and Kristina Lerman, “Leaders and Negotiators: An Influence-based Metric for Rank,” in Int. Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM), 2009
  • Rumi Ghosh and Kristina Lerman, “Community Detection using a Measure of Global  Influence,” Advances in Social Network Mining and Analysis SNAKDD 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
  • Dylan A.Shell, Shivkumar Vishwanathan, Jin Huang, Rumi Ghosh, Jie Huang, Maja J Mataric, Kristina Lerman and Robert Sekuler, “Spatial Behavior of Individuals and Groups: Preliminary Findings from a Museum Scenario”, in Proc. Of IEEE/IRSJ IROS Workshop from Sensors to Human Spatial Concepts, 2007                       

Patents

1

Professional activities

  • Program Committee Member, Int. AAAI Conf. on Weblogs and Social Media, 2012
  • Reviewer, Transaction of Intelligent Systems and Society (Special Issue on Twitter), 2011, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2011, International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, (2010, 2011), IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, 2010
  •  Organizer, Graduate Student Symposium of Intelligent and Networks Division, ISI, 2010 
  •  Mentoring, Jatuporn Leksut (undergraduate summer intern) Ibrahim Mkondera (DREU summer intern), Kanika Narang (Viterbi-India summer intern)