Summary of 2021

Received ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship for the period of two years

Received $2000 (US) from NSF, Science of Science and Computational Discovery Lab to support the proposed project on ”Enabling interactive exploration of rich scientific multigraphs with Neo4j Bloom”

Elected as Secretary/Treasurer for SIG Organizational Information Management, ASIS&T and Cabinet Representative for SIG Digital Libraries, ASIS&T for 2021-2022

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Selected to attend the Doctoral Colloquium of 84th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Selected to attend Doctoral Consortium and Conference of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries with fully waived registration fees

Selected to attend the Science of Science (S4) Summer School, a two-week summer school, which was funded by NSF’s Collaborative Research Social Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer Through Scientific Mentorship and Publication. The acceptance rate was 20%

Selected to attend the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School, a one-week summer school, that involved 5 intensive training days to gain thorough understanding of the role of a Research Software Engineer in Digital Humanities research. It was organized by The Alan Turing Institute

Selected to attend the 1st Social ComQuant Summer School, an intensive research-based summer program in computational social science by Social Comquant. It was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no 952128. The acceptance rate was 30%.

Selected to attend the Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute (TAP) was led by JSTOR Labs in partnership with The University of Virginia (2021) and The University of Arizona (2022) with the funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. I was selected to attend the following three courses (i) Machine Learning by Grant Glass (ii) Topic Modeling by Rafael Alvarado; and (iii) Visualizing Humanities Data by Zoe LeBlanc

Received a scholarship to attend SLA 2021 conference

Received scholarship to attend the IFLA WLIC 2021

Received $8000 (US) to support the proposed project on “Dealing with COVID-19 and Saving People’s Lives in South Asia (SA) Areas and Beyond”

Elected as Newsletter Officer & Webmaster for South Asia Chapter, ASIS&T

Elected as Committee Member at the IFLA Science and Technology Libraries Section for the period of four years (2021-2025)

Received an honorarium to provide my feedback on the structure, audience, format, and content of the Public Communication of Science Scoping Workshop to identify the areas of the course that need to be developed. It was organized by the Ethics Team (Public Policy Program) as a part of Learning at the Alan Turing Institute

Received fully waived registration fees to attend the Networks 2021. The waiver was made possible by the International Network for Social Network Analysis, the Network Science Society , and the Indiana University Network Science Institute

Received scholarship to attend Doctoral Colloquium and full iConference 2021. It was funded by U.S. National Science Foundation

Received scholarship to attend the Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) 2021 Summit. It was funded by Figshare, Northeastern University Library, and Syracuse University iSchool

Appointed as Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Library and Information Services (IJLIS) published by IGI Global