Gautam Kishore Shahi is a PhD student in the Research Training Group User-Centred Social Media at the research group for Professional Communication in Electronic Media/Social Media(PROCO) at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His research interests are Web Science, Data Science, and Social Media Analytics. He has a background in computer science, where he has gained valuable insights in India, New Zealand, Italy and now Germany. Gautam received a Master’s degree from the University of Trento, Italy and Bachelor Degree from BIT Sindri, India. Outside of academia, He worked as an Assistant System Engineer for Tata Consultancy Services in India.