Arun Chauhan is a PhD candidate in computer science and engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, expected to graduate in Summer 2016. His research focuses on using microblogs like tweets to predict places users may visit. He has a master's degree from IIT Kharagpur and bachelor's from Institute of Integral Technology Lucknow. He has received several fellowships and awards for his research. Previously he worked as an assistant professor and interned at IBM Watson developing a recommendation system using tweets to predict points of interest for users. He has published several papers in the areas of social media analytics, machine learning, and text mining.

1. ARUN CHAUHAN
Email: aruntakhur@gmail.com
Phone: (+91)-8755821501
Education
Jan 2013 – July 2016(Expected)
Indian Intitute of Technology, Roorkee
PhD candidate, Computer Science and Engineering.
Adviser: Dr. Durga Toshniwal.
Expected Graduation date: Summer 2016.
Topic: Prediction for Recommendation of Places of Visit Using Microblogs
2008-2010 :
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Master of Technology (M. Tech.) in School of Information Technology.
Cumulative Performance Index: 8.29 (on a scale of 10).
Adviser: Dr. K. S. Rao
Topic: Emotion recognition using Linear Prediction residual.
2003-2006 :
Institute of Integral Technology, Lucknow
Affiliated to Uttar Pradesh Technical University.
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Information Technology.
Division: First
Research Interests
Social Media Analytics, Information Retrieval and Extraction, Machine Learning and Text
Analytics.
Achievements & Extra-curricular activities
• GATE 2008- All India Rank: 56
• MHRD Fellowship for M.Tech, 2008-10.
• MHRD Fellowship for PhD, 2013-Present.
• Best Paper Award in International workshop on Machine Learning and Text Analytics,
2013.
 Best Presentation award at Xerox Research Center India (XCRI) open 2016.

2. • Attended First Machine Learning Workshop on Machine Learning in India (iWML)
held at IIT Kanpur, March, 2013.
• Attended International Workshop on Machine Learning and Text Analytics at South
Asian University, New Delhi, 15-24 December, 2013.
Employers
IBM Watson, Bangalore
Internship (May’14 – May’15)
Mentor: Dr. Krishna Kummamuru
Description: We built a recommendation system use to recommend Point of Interest to users at given time,
based on their past tweets on twitter timelines. For recommendation various feature vectors has been
extracted from past tweets in generating predictions. Extensive experimental study has been done on these
extracted feature vectors from users’ timelines. It is shown that the accuracy of the prediction could be as
high as 90% for the top 5 predictions.
Graphic Era University, Dehradun
Assistant Professor-CSE (June 2010 – Dec 2012)
University website: http://www.geu.ac.in
Graphic Era Institute of Technology, Dehradun
Assistant Professor-CSE (Aug 2007 – May 2008)
University website: http://www.geu.ac.in
Papers
 Arun Chauhan, Krishna Kummamuru, and Durga Toshniwal, “Prediction of Places of
Visit using Tweets”, in Knowledge and Information Systems (Accepted), Springer
2016. (Impact Factor: 1.765)
 Arun Chauhan, Ravi Tejwani, and Durga Toshniwal, “Twitter Can Predict Your Next
Place of Visit”, in International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2016,
Article ID 9274715, 10 pages, 2016. doi:10.1155/2016/9274715. (Impact Factor:
0.665)
 Arun Chauhan, Durga Toshniwal, and Ravi Tejwani, “Predicting future place of visit
using user’s personality profile” in proceedings of IEEE International conference on
computational techniques in information and communication technologies,
2106.(Accepted)

3.  Arun Chauhan, Shashidhar G. Koolagudi, Sabin Kafley and K. Sreenivasa Rao,
"Emotion recognition using LP residual," Students' Technology Symposium
(TechSym), 2010 IEEE , vol., no., pp.255-261, 3-4 April 2010.
Digital Object Identifier : 10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469162
 Sabin Kafley, Anil Vuppala, Arun Chauhan and K. Sreenivasa Rao,"Continuous digit
recognition in mobile environment," Students' Technology Symposium (TechSym),
2010 IEEE , vol., no., pp.217,222, 3-4 April 2010
Digital Object Identifier : 10.1109/TECHSYM.2010.5469151
Programming Languages
C++/C. Some programming experience with Java, Python, Matlab and R.
References
1. Durga Toshniwal 2. Krishna Kummamuru 3. K. S. Rao
Associate Professor Senior Researcher Associate Professor
CSE, IIT Roorkee IBM Research, India CSE, IIT Kharagpur
+91-1332-285687 +91-3222-282336 +91-80-67043788
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