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Kshitijaa Jaglan

Kshitijaa Jaglan

PhD student (Social Computing) — networks, ML, privacy

kshitijaa
Zurich, Switzerland
Joined October 2025
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Researcher focused on networks and sampling: Kshitijaa’s academic work centers on network sampling and analysis — culminating in an MS thesis (IIIT Hyderabad, 2024) and an ICWSM 2024 paper 'Tight Sampling in Unbounded Networks'. Her work emphasizes designing sampling schemes to capture cohesive communities and evaluating them on synthetic and Twitter data. ac+1
International research experience and collaboration: She completed a semester at ETH Zurich's Social Networks Lab, co-authored work with ETH researchers (Ulrik Brandes, Meher Chaitanya), and joined the Social Computing Group at University of Zurich as a PhD student in 2024. uzh+1
Open-source practitioner and contributor: She actively maintains a public GitHub (deutranium), completed an Outreachy internship with TensorFlow-related work, and lists multiple small personal projects on her website — indicating a mix of research and practical software development. github+2
Experience spanning industry internships and applied cloud/data tooling: Resume/profile entries show internships at Google (Strategic Cloud Engineering) and R&D/engineering roles during undergraduate years, reflecting experience with cloud/data engineering tools and frontend engineering. linkedin+1
Privacy-oriented and pragmatic impact: Her personal site notes discovering and responsibly reporting a large data-leak affecting students, and her research interests include privacy and fairness — suggesting a practical and ethics-aware approach to applied data and network research. github+1
Conference organizer and community builder: Co-organized EuroPython 2025, contributing to event coordination and community engagement within the Python open-source ecosystem. europython+2
Student open-source leadership: Served as president of the university's Open Source Developers Group, leading community events, mentoring contributors, and promoting student open-source projects and collaboration. github+1

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

Adjacency Search Embeddings

January 1, 2025

Listed as a Transactions on Machine Learning Research entry (2025) in publication listings — indicates ongoing work related to graph/search embeddings.

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Sampling cohesive communities in unbounded networks (Master's thesis)

June 1, 2024

MS-by-Research thesis from IIIT Hyderabad detailing a network sampling scheme designed to capture cohesive communities and experiments on synthetic and Twitter datasets.

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Tight Sampling in Unbounded Networks

January 1, 2024

Conference paper (ICWSM 2024) that proposes a variant of snowball sampling prioritizing the inclusion of cohesive communities; illustrated on synthetic networks and Twitter data.

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Hobbies

Cats / animal lover (mentioned on personal website) github

Open-source tinkering and small utility/tool projects (hobbyist dev work) github+1