Akhil Arora
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS)
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region
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Top SchoolAkhil Arora is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Aarhus University and head of CLAN, specializing in NLP, human-centered AI, graph machine learning, and causal inference to build next-generation information systems that aid knowledge seeking. He holds a PhD from EPFL and is a fellow at SODAS with formal collaboration ties to the Wikimedia Foundation, where he has applied causal methods to study Wikipedia’s visibility dynamics across 300+ languages. Before academia he spent nearly five years in industry research at Xerox and American Express, producing scalable ML systems for fraud, customer analytics, and enterprise knowledge graphs that delivered measurable business impact. His past work on influence maximization earned SIGMOD recognition and a Most Reproducible Paper Award, while his doctoral projects produced highly efficient tools like Eigenthemes and PARIS+ that challenge neural baselines on speed and memory. Known for bridging theory and practice, he combines large-scale systems engineering with careful causal evaluation—a blend that surfaces subtle real-world effects often missed by purely predictive models. He is actively recruiting motivated PhD students to join his lab.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary Education, Secondary Education at Jeevan Marg Sophia Secondary School, DeoriaIndian Institute of Technology KanpurHigher Secondary Education, Higher Secondary Education at Modi Public School, KotaBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering at Institute of Technology and Management,GurgaonDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at EPFL
English, Hindi, Punjabi, French
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Github Skills (12)
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data-analysis8
react8
computer-science8
science8
natural-language-processing3
graphsage3
entity2
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nlp1
entity-linking1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gradesnda/gradesnda.github.io
Mar 2020 - Nov 2025
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 years 9 months
epfl-ada/2020
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Materials for Applied Data Analysis CS-401, fall 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 10 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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