Education

  • 2017-2021: Computer Science Research MPhil/PhD, Department of Informatics, King’s College London, London, UK (Passed)
  • 2013-2017: Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering), The LNM Institute Of Information Technology, Jaipur, India. (CPI 8.46/10)
  • 2013 AISSCE (XII): Delhi Public School, RK Puram, New Delhi, India. (92.0 %)
  • 2011 AISSE (X): Great Mission Public School, Ramnagar, India. (CGPA 10/10)

Publications

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  • For dataset and videos of presentations, please check our dataset website at Netsys.
  • Pushkal Agarwal, Aravindh Raman, Kiran Garimella, Damiola, Gareth Tyson and Nishanth Sastry. Jettisoning Junk Messaging in the Era of End-to-End Encryption: A Case Study of WhatsApp. Accepted in The Web Conference (WWW) 2022.
  • Pushkal Agarwal, Oliver Hawkins, Margarita Amaxopoulou, Noel Dempsey, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood. Hate Speech in Political Discourse: A Case Study of UK MPs on Twitter. In ACM Hypertext 2021.
  • Pushkal Agarwal, Miriam Redi, Nishanth Sastry, Edward Wood, and Andrew Blick. Wikipedia and Westminster: Quality and Dynamics of Wikipedia Pages about UK Politicians. In ACM Hypertext 2020.
  • Pushkal Agarwal, Kiran Garimella, Sagar Joglekar, Nishanth Sastry, and Gareth Tyson. Characterizing the Diffusion of Political Content on a Multi-lingual Social Network. In AAAI ICWSM 2020.
  • Pushkal Agarwal, Sagar Joglekar, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Nishanth Sastry, and Nicolas Kourtellis. Stop tracking me Bro! Online User Tracking on Hyper-Partisan Websites. Accepted for publication at The Web Conference (WWW) 2020.
  • Pushkal Agarwal, Nishanth Sastry and Edward Wood. Digital Engagement between Citizens and Members of Parliament in the UK. In Proceedings of AAAI ICWSM 2019.
  • Pushkal Agarwal, Nishanth Sastry and Edward Wood. Discovery of the Content and Engagement with the Content. Extended abstract paper in APEN workshop, ICWSM 2018.
  • Data Study Group, Alan Turing Institute. (Feb, 2019). Amnesty International: Monitoring online violence against high profile individuals.
  • Nirmal Kumar S, Sakthi Balan M, Pushkal Agarwal and Lokesh Todwal. On Social Synchrony in Online Social Networks. In Proceedings of ACM Web Science Conference, Troy, New York, USA, June 2017 (WebSci’17).

Talks

  • Invited talk on the analysis of Parliamentlive.tv at the R Conference organised by International Indian Statistical Association at IIT- Bombay (India), 2019
  • Invited talk at the Centre For British Politics And Government (King’s Collge London), 2019.
  • Presented paper at the AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) 2019. Munich, Germany.
  • Talk on Strengths & Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research. Royster Global Conf.2019, UNC- Chapel Hill (USA).
  • Invited talk on Digital Citizen Engagement at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds.
  • Invited talk on Discovery of the Content and Engagement with the Content in the Algorithmic Personalization and News Workshop at the 12th AAAI conference on web and social media (ICWSM-18) Stanford, USA.
  • PyData London: Youtube
  • R programming Lecture Series: LNMIIT, Jaipur sessions of 60 students in the institute