Swaprava Nath / स्वप्रभ नाथ

Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur. Previously, I held postdoctoral positions at the Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University and at the Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi. I did my PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. My research interest lies at the intersection of Economics and Computation, that has applications in Internet economics, crowdsourcing, resource allocation, online advertising, auctions, matching, social networks. To know more about my research, please see the research page, and to know about our research group, see the group page.

Full CV: [PDF]

"If you believe too much you'll never notice the flaws; if you doubt too much you won't get started. It requires a lovely balance."
-- Richard W. Hamming

News

September-November, 2020: The course lectures of "Introduction to Game Theory and Mechanism Design" are now online. See this YouTube playlist.

April-May, 2020: We have developed Satyanweshi/सत्यान्वेषी, the truth-seeking chatbot. Set it up easily and truth-check suspicious messages before forwarding to others. Our solution secured the second place in MHRD AICTE SAMADHAN competition in response to COVID-19 among more than 2500 participants. Good work by Ankur, Yash, Nithya, and Prarthana who are currently working towards improving and maintaining Satyanweshi/सत्यान्वेषी. This project is mentored by Prof. Hamim Zafar and myself in collaboration with Dev Sharma, Founder and CEO of InfoPost. Also visit (and "like" if you like) Satyanweshi/सत्यान्वेषी's Facebook page.

March-April, 2020: IIT Kanpur academic fraternity is fighting tooth and nail to beat COVID-19 in their own way. Here is a personal collection of the students and faculty members and their (primarily student-driven) projects that are contributing to this fight. Some of these projects need Government and Non-government support in terms of data, funds etc. Please take a look and contact the people if you want to get involved.

February, 2020: Paper on the blockchain-based skill evaluation tool SkillCheck gets accepted in IEEE ICBC. Congratulations to Jay.

January, 2020: Paper on the peer-grading tool SwaGrader gets accepted in CoDS-COMAD. Congratulations to Somu, Ayushi, and Shubham.

February, 2020: A change in the plan of offering CS711: "Game Theory and Mechanism Design" -- this will now be offered in the autumn semester (July-December) of 2020. If you have already filled the form for the summer, I'll give you a priority if you want to register for this course in the July semester.

January-April, 2020: Teaching Computer Networks.

May, 2019: Press coverage of our work on surprise in elections.

May, 2019: Garima's (PhD student) second paper gets into IJCAI. Congratulations again!

May, 2019: Garima (PhD student) is traveling to Montreal to present her paper in AAMAS. Congratulations Garima!

January-April, 2019: Flown an A380, said differently, taught ESC101: Fundamentals of Computing. The crew after landing it successfully.

August-November, 2018: Taught Introduction to Game Theory and Mechanism Design.

January-April, 2018: Taught a new course, Selected Areas of Mechanism Design.

December 15, 2017: Co-organized a workshop on Computational Social Choice Theory at IIT Kanpur.

August-November 2017: Taught Topics in Game Theory and Collective Choice.

July 2017: Joined the department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur.

Received the Fulbright-Nehru Post-doctoral Research Fellowship for the duration 2015-17.

July - November, 2014: taught a course Scientific Computing using Python at ISI Delhi.

December 17, 2013: defended my thesis!

My Research Cloud