Dr. Saurav Karmakar received PhD from the Computer Science Department of Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA in 2011.  His doctoral dissertation is in the field of syntactic and semantic text mining. Before receiving his PhD he obtained one MS in Computer Science and one in Mathematics and Statistics from the same university. He hails from Kolkata, India originally and obtained his bachelors in Electronics & Communication Engineering from India before coming to U.S. During his doctoral days he used to hold multiple senior leadership positions in the student organizations and that lead him to win the Student Leader of the year award in 2011 from Georgia State University.

This year he received NSF grant for DHRV project as a Co-PI with other professors from Georgia State, University of North Florida and University of West Ontario. He is currently working as a research scientist in the field of natural language processing and text mining.

    Saurav Karmakar, Ying Zhu, "Mining Collaboration through Textual Semantic Interpretation". In the Proc. of The 11th IEEE International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems(HIS 2011). December 5-8, 2011, Malacca, Malaysia.
    Saurav Karmakar, Ying Zhu, "Visualizing Text Readability". In the Proc. of  The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining and Intelligent Information Technology Applications(ICMiA 2010). November 30 - December 2, 2010, Seoul, Korea.  
    Saurav Karmakar, Ying Zhu, "Recommendation by Composition Style". In the Proc. of The Tenth IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications(ISDA 2010). November 29 - December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
    Ying Zhu, Saurav Karmakar, "Analysis of a Social Data Visualization Web Site". In the Proc. of The Tenth IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications(ISDA 2010).  November 29 - December 1, 2010, Cairo, Egypt.
    Ying Zhu, Saurav Karmakar, Kireet Kokala, Rawiroj Kasemsri Na Ayudhaya "Analyzing Comments on Social Media Web Sites with Latent Semantic Analysis". In the Proc. of The 5th International Conference on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems (KICSS 2010) LNCS/LNAI, Springer,November 25 - 27, 2010, Chang Mai, Thailand.