News
Nov 2017
Paper accepted at AAAI 2018Nov 2017
Paper accepted at SIGMOD 2018Jul 2017
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper award to Fairness Testing: Testing Software for Discrimination in FSE 2017.Jan 2017
Presented our benchmarking paper on Influence Maximization at North East Database Day, 2017.Oct 2016:
First recipient of Krithi Ramamritham Computer Science Scholarship for contribution to the research of databases.Sep, 2016: Paper accepted in SIGMOD 2017
Debunking the myths of Influence Maximization in our new SIGMOD paper.Sep, 2016:
Attended VLDB 2016 from 5th-9th September. Presented the paper, discussing bloomgraphs : an efficient, compact graph datastructure for efficient conductance calculation.June, 2016:
Attended SIGMOD 2016 from 26th June-1st July.I am a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My research interests span the broad area of data analytics with particular focus on entity resolution and social network analysis.
I did my undergraduate studies from the Computer Science department of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) in May, 2014. Prior to joining UMass, I worked as a budding scientist at Xerox Research Centre India, Bangalore for a year.
Selected Publications:
- Sainyam Galhotra, Arya Mazumdar, Soumyabrata Pal and Barna Saha. The Geometric Block Model in AAAI 2018.
- Sainyam Galhotra, Donatella Firmani, Barna Saha and Divesh Srivastava. Robust Entity Resolution with Random Expansion in SIGMOD Conference, 2018.
- Sainyam Galhotra, Yuriy Brun and Alexandra Meliou. Fairness testing: testing software for discrimination in ESEC/FSE Conference 2017.
ACM SigSoft Distinguished Paper Award Media Coverage: ACM News , MIT Technology Download, EnterpriseTech, Bloomberg
- Akhil Arora*, Sainyam Galhotra* and Sayan Ranu. Debunking the Myths of Influence Maximization: An In-Depth Benchmarking Study in SIGMOD, 2017 ACM SIGMOD Most Reproducible Award!
- Sainyam Galhotra*, Akhil Arora* and Shourya Roy. Holistic Influence Maximization: Combining Scalability and Efficiency with Opinion-Aware Models in SIGMOD , 2016
- Sainyam Galhotra, Amitabha Bagchi, Srikanta Bedathur, Maya Ramanath and Vidit Jain. Tracking the Conductance of Rapidly Evolving Topic-Subgraphs in VLDB, 2016
- Sainyam Galhotra , Akhil Arora, Srinivas Virinchi and Shourya Roy. ASIM: A Scalable Algorithm for Influence Maximization under the Independent Cascade Model in WWW, 2015 [Poster]