Suman Kundu

Suman Kundu is an Assistant Professor in the Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI at IIT Madras. He leads the research group SONAA: Symbolic Orchestration of Neural AI Algorithms in the department. Before joining IIT Madras, Dr. Kundu was with IIT Jodhpur from 2019 to 2025. Dr. Kundu received his Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University in 2017. His doctoral research work was carried out at the Center for Soft Computing Research, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, between 2010 and 2015. Dr. Kundu obtained an M.E. in Software Engineering from Jadavpur University in 2009 and a B.Tech. in Information Technology in 2005. He visited the Engine group at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland in 2018-2019 for his postdoctoral research.

Dr. Kundu has more than 6 years of industrial software development experience with Zinfi Software Systems Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata. He published several articles in reputed journals and conferences like IEEE TKDE & TCSS, ACM TKDD & CSUR, WWW, AAAI, ECIR, WACV, and ICWE, among others. His present research interests include streaming and dynamic graphs; learning with graphs & LLMs; graph representation learning and GNNs applied to the application domain of information extraction/retrieval/presentation for education, misinformation, aggression, and events.