dhruv.gupta [at] ntnu.no

Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

I am an Associate Professor with the Databases and Artificial Intelligence (DART) Group in the Department of Computer Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

My research lies in the broad areas of information retrieval, information extraction, and data mining. My doctoral research focused on building a scalable and efficient search infrastructure to analyze large amounts of semantically annotated text. As concrete products of my research I created Gyani and the DigitalHistorian search systems that were aimed to help linguists, journalists, and scholars in humanities to unlock the treasure trove of knowledge locked inside vast amounts of born-digital artifacts. I have also spent time in the industry having worked at Oracle, Amazon, and IBM Research in past.

Open Positions

• Open PhD Position in building scalable text analysis systems, see: NTNU Job Vacancy Announcement.

Teaching

• Lecturer and Coordinator, Data Warehousing and Data Mining.
• Lecturer and Coordinator, Information Retrieval.

Selected Publications

• D. Gupta and K. Berberich.
  Optimizing Hyper-Phrase Queries.
  In ICTIR 2020.
• D. Gupta and K. Berberich.
  JIGSAW: Structuring Text into Tables.
  In ICTIR 2019.
• D. Gupta, K. Berberich, J. Strötgen, and D. Zeinalipour-Yazti.
  Generating Semantic Aspects for Queries.
  In ESWC 2019.
• D. Gupta and K. Berberich.
  GYANI: An Indexing Infrastructure for Knowledge-Centric Tasks.
  In CIKM 2018.
• D. Gupta and K. Berberich.
  Identifying Time Intervals for Knowledge Graph Facts.
  In WWW 2018. [Honorable Mention]
• D. Gupta, J. Strötgen, and K. Berberich.
  DigitalHistorian - Search & Analytics Using Annotations.
  In HistoInformatics@DH 2016.
• D. Gupta and K. Berberich:
  Diversifying Search Results Using Time,
  In ECIR 2016.
• D. Gupta and K. Berberich:
  Temporal Query Classification at Different Granularities.
  In SPIRE 2015.
• D. Gupta and K. Berberich:
  Identifying Time Intervals of Interest to Queries.
  In CIKM 2014.

Awards and Honors

• Service Recognition

  • 2023: Text2Story at ECIR Recognized Reviewer Award.
  • 2021: IJCAI Distinguished Program Committee Member.

• Awards

  • 2018: Best Poster Honorable Mention at The Web Conference (WWW).
  • 2017: Young Researcher at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF).
  • 2014: IIT Patna’s Proficiency Prize for Best Thesis in M.Tech (Mathematics & Computing).
  • 2005: United States President’s Educational Awards Program for Outstanding Academic Excellence.
  • 2003: United States President’s Educational Awards Program for Outstanding Academic Excellence.

• Scholarships & Fellowships

  • 2016: WSDM Student Registration Scholarship.
  • 2014: IMPRS for Computer Science PhD Scholarship.
  • 2013: Visiting Scholar Fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
  • 2012: MHRD (Govt. of India) M.Tech Scholarship at IIT Patna.

Academic Service

• 2023: SIGIR (PC member for long, short, and demo papers), IJCAI (PC member), CIKM (PC member for long papers), and Text2Story@ECIR (PC member).
• 2022: SIGIR (PC member for long, short, and demo papers), IJCAI (PC member), CIKM (PC member for long papers), and Text2Story@ECIR (PC member).
• 2021: CIKM (PC member for long and short papers), ICTIR (PC member), IJCAI (PC member), and Text2Story@ECIR (PC member).
• 2020: CIKM (PC member for long papers), ICTIR (PC member), IJCAI (PC member), AI4Narratives@IJCAI, and Text2Story@ECIR (PC member).
• 2019: ICTIR (PC member), UISTDA@IUI and Text2Story@ECIR (PC member).
• 2018: CIKM (PC member for long papers), UISTDA@IUI, Text2Story@ECIR (PC member), and IPM Special Issue on Narrative Extraction from Texts (PC member).
• 2017: CIKM (PC member for long papers).