Arpan Dam

PhD Candidate — Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Brief Bio

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, advised by Dr. Bivas Mitra. My research focuses on social network analysis, influence maximization, fairness-aware recommendation systems, and graph representation learning.

Previously, I completed my Master’s degree at IIIT Vadodara under the supervision of Dr. Ashish Phophalia. I am currently a member of the Complex Networks Research Group at IIT Kharagpur.

Research Interests

  • Social Network Analysis
  • Influence Maximization
  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Fairness in Machine Learning
  • Recommender Systems

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Arpan Dam, Sayan Pathak, and Bivas Mitra, “FairRec: An Expert Recommendation Framework for Fair and Topic-Aware Influence Maximization,” Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, 2026.

Conference Publications (Peer-Reviewed)

  1. Arpan Dam, Ashis Phophalia, Vikas Jain, “A Novel Bayesian Approach for Construction of Random Forest,” ICIIP, 2021.
  2. Arpan Dam, Suryansh Kumar, Debarati Bhattacharjee, Sayan Pathak, and Bivas Mitra, “Topic Aware Influential Member Detection in Meetup,” ACM SAC, 2023.
  3. Arpan Dam, Mayank Shukla, Sayan Pathak, and Bivas Mitra, “On the Badge Aware Influence Representation Learning and Influencer Detection in Social Networks,” CODS-COMAD, 2024.
  4. Arpan Dam, “Topic-Aware Fair Representation for Finding Influential Members in Social Networks,” CODS-COMAD, 2024.
  5. Arpan Dam, Sayan Pathak, and Bivas Mitra, “Fair2Vec: Learning Fair and Topic-Aware Representations for Influencer Recommendation,” ASONAM, 2025.
  6. Arpan Dam, Sayan Pathak, and Bivas Mitra, “On Recommending Fair Influential Scholars with Geographically Diverse Impact,” TPDL, 2025.
  7. Arpan Dam, Sougata Roy, Sayan Pathak, and Bivas Mitra, “Recommending Under-represented Influential Researchers Using Geographically Aware Contrastive Learning,” PAKDD, 2026.

Education

  • B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering — Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM), Kolkata
  • M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering — IIIT Vadodara
  • PhD in Computer Science and Engineering — IIT Kharagpur

Achievements

  • Gold Medal for Academic Excellence — IIIT Vadodara
  • Chairperson’s Gold Medal — IIIT Vadodara

Contact

Email: arpand@kgpian.iitkgp.ac.in