Course ID: BSCS3007
Course Credits: 4
Course Type: Elective
Pre-requisites: None
Course ID: BSCS3007
Course Credits: 4
Course Type: Elective
Pre-requisites: None
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Course structure & Assessments
12 weeks of coursework, weekly online assignments, 2 in-person invigilated quizzes, 1 in-person invigilated end term exam. For details of standard course structure and assessments, visit Academics page.
WEEK 1 | Topics – Assessments Social network analysis 101 – |
WEEK 2 | Collecting data from social media – Collect data, analyze, and report |
WEEK 3 | Text analysis of social media data – Analyze data and report |
WEEK 4 | Cyber crime on social media – Analyze data and report |
WEEK 5 | Cyber crime on social media – Reading paper and report |
WEEK 6 | Fake news on social media – Analyze data and report |
WEEK 7 | Fake news on social media – Reading paper and report |
WEEK 8 | Privacy on social media – Analyze data and report |
WEEK 9 | Privacy on social media – Reading paper and report |
WEEK 10 | Ethics, bias on online social media – Reading paper and report |
WEEK 11 | Computational social science – Reasoning / Comprehension of ideas |
WEEK 12 | Computational social science on online social media – Reading paper and report |
About the Instructors
Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK") is a Professor of Computer Science at IIIT-Hyderabad. He is a Visiting Faculty at IIT Kanpur, an Adjunct faculty at IIIT Delhi, and Associated Researcher at Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and AI, IIT Madras. PK was inducted an ACM Distinguished Member in 2021. PK is an ACM India Council Member, and Chair of the Research Facilitation Committee of ACM India. PK is a TEDx and an ACM Distinguished & ACM India Eminent Speaker. PK received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His Ph.D. thesis work on anti-phishing research at CMU contributed in creating an award-winning startup - Wombat Security Technologies, wombatsecurity.com. Wombat was acquired in March 2018 for USD 225 Million. PK was listed in the World's 2% Scientists by Stanford University in Nov 2020. He has co-authored research papers in the field of Computational Social Science, Privacy and Security in Online Social Media, Cyber Security, Social Computing, Data Science for Social Good, amongst others. PK's research work regularly gets featured on news media, including print, online, and TV within India and across the world. PK started and successfully manages PreCog (precog.iiit.ac.in), a research group at IIIT-Hyderabad.