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Satyaki Sikdar

About

Satyaki Sikdar is an assistant professor of computer science at Loyola University Chicago. Before joining Loyola, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Luddy School of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Notre Dame in 2022 and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Heritage Institute of Technology in Kolkata, India in 2017.

Dr. Sikdar’s research interest is understanding the fundamental mechanisms that drive complex, interconnected systems using tools at the confluence of AI, network science, and computational social science. His current research is focused on analyzing large-scale bibliometric data from scientific publications using generative models and embeddings. His work has been published in leading scientific venues such as Nature Human Behaviour, IEEE TKDE, Scientific Reports, and IEEE ICDM.