Homepage of Bhaskar DasGupta

Welcome to the home page of Bhaskar DasGupta

I am a Professor in the Computer Science department at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). I am also an adjunct faculty at the Biomedical Engineering department in UIC. My research interests span several areas such as Theoretical Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics/Algorithms, Computational Biology, Computational Geometry and Computational Finance. I received the NSF CAREER award in 2004 and the UIC College of Engineering Teaching Award in 2012. I thankfully acknowledge generous support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for my research activities.

For Fall 2026, I am teaching the following courses:

CS 401 Computer Algorithms I, CRN 35218(undergrad) 35219(grad), Monday and Wednesday 5:00 PM to 6:15 PM, LC C1 (97 students)
CS 506 Introduction to Quantum Computing , CRN 47565, Monday and Wednesday 2:00 PM to 3:15 PM, CDRLC 1402 (30 students)

To know more about about myself, my research and other stuff, please follow one of the following links.

Click here for the website for Theoretical Computer Science Group at UIC

Click here for my publications (with online copies)

Quick links and information

▸ Detailed CV

▸ Publications (with online copies)

▸ Contact Information

▸ DasGupta's Creative Algorithms Lab

▸ Slides for some presentations

♦ See my list of publication for other presentation slides

▸ Softwares

▸ Book

Bhaskar DasGupta and Jie Liang, Models and Algorithms for Biomolecules and Molecular Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (January 2016)

PDF file for "raw version" of book before review and proof corrections
Publisher website

▸ Publication related information

Public Google Scholar Profile
list of co-authors via DBLP

▸ Media coverage stuff

Adding fake accounts to networks can make them less vulnerable to privacy violations, UIC Science Blog, 10/02/2018

▸	Selected current editorial and other professional responsibilities

Associate editor, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications
Member of editorial board, Mathematics Open

Other links

▸ Program committee activities

Current

Program committee member, 19^th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications (COCOA 2026), Beijing, China, December 4-6, 2026
Program committee member, 32^nd International Computing and Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2026), Singapore, July 23-25, 2026

Past

BBC 2026, CBMS 2026, ICCA 2026, COCOA 2025, BBC 2025, COCOON 2024, TAMC 2024, COCOON 2023, BBC 2023, GLBIO 23, COCOON 2022, IWWBIO 2022, BBC 2022, AAIM 2021, COCOA 2021, CNA 2021, iABC 2021, GLBIO 2021, COCOA 2020 CNA 2020, ICCS 2020, COCOON 2020, SOFSEM 2020, CNA 2019, BIOKDD 2019, COCOON 2019, ICCS2019, ICDCS 2019, GLBIO 2019, IWBBIO 2019, CNA 2018, BIBM 2018, AAIM 2018, IWOCA 2018, COCOON 2018, BBC 2018, IWBBIO 2018, CNA 2017, BIBM 2017, SocInfo 2017, BIO-KDD 2017, ACM-BCB 2017, NetSci 2017, BBC 2017, IWBBIO 2017, COCOA 2016, BIBM 2016, ACM-BCB 2016, BIOKDD'16, COCOON 2016, AAIM 2016, COCOA 2015, FOCI 2015, BIBM 2015, BIOKDD 2015, ISBRA 2015, BBC 2015, COCOA 2014, BIBM 2014, COCOON 2014, WCCI 2014, AICoB 2014, ICCABS 2014, BICoB 2014, ICAA 2014, BIBM 2013, COCOA 2013, BRICS-SCI 2013, BICS 2013, ICCABS 2013, ACSE 2013, BICoB 2013, ISAAC 2012, GIW 2012, BIBM 2012, HIBIBI 2012, ISNN 2012, ISBRA 2012, ACSE 2012, BICoB 2012, ICCABS 2012, SOFSEM 2012, BIBM 2011, COCOA 2011, FutureTech 2011, AAIM 2011, ISBRA 2011, ISSN 2011, FOCI 2011, BiCoB-2011, BIBM 2010, WABI 2010, IBW 2010, FutureTech 2010, ACS 2010, INSC 2010, BICoB-2010, ACSE 2010, GIW 2009, ISAAC 2009, BIBM 2009, CSB 2009, SOLI 2009, COCOON 2009, ISBRA 2009, FAW 2009, BICoB 2009, BIBE 2009, CBB 2008, GIW 2008, BIBM 2008, WASA 2008, FAW 2008, ISBRA 2008, INSC 2008, BIBM 2007, AAIM 2007, ISNN 2007, ISBRA 2007, ICNSC 2007, ICTAI 2006, CASB 2006, EMBS 2006, IWBRA 2006, ICNSC 2006, APBC 2006,ICTAI 2005, ISDM 2005, EMBS 2005, BIDM 2005, COCOON 2005, IWBRA 2005, ICTAI 2004, BIDM 2004, EMBS 2004 Click here for details

▸ Graduate student support

RA positions may be available. You may apply with CV or other related information. I will respond only if I am interested in your qualifications.

▸ Miscellaneous

Computer science department homepage at UIC

PhD students supervised

Current

Katie Kruzan (MCS PhD student)

Past

Nazanin Azarhooshang (graduated 12/2024, thesis title: Exploring Ricci Curvature and Ricci Flow in Social and Biological Graphs and Hypergraphs)
Prithviraj Sengupta (graduated 10/2024, thesis title: Ricci Curvature and Ricci Flow for Graphs and Hypergraphs)
Tanima Chatterjee (graduated 03/2021, thesis title: Two Novel Network Measures and Their Applications with a Case Study on ADHD for Human Brain Networks)
Farzane Yahyanejad (graduated 02/2019, thesis title: Curvature Analysis in Complex Networks: Theory and Application [pdf of thesis])
Nasim Mobasheri (graduated 07/2018, thesis title: Geodesic-Based Properties in Complex Networks [pdf of thesis])
Venkatkumar Srinivasan (graduated 04/2017, thesis title: Analysis of Privacy Measures for Multi-Agent and Networked Systems [pdf of thesis])
Lakshmi Kaligounder (graduated 04/2014, thesis title: Global Stability of Financial Networks : Measures, Evaluations and Policy Implications [pdf of thesis])

Notable other students from UIC or from close to UIC that have co-authored research papers with me:

Aishi Agarwal (High-school student at publication time)
Garima Kankariya (undergraduate student from IIT Delhi (India) at publication time)
Kedsuda Apichonbancha (MS)
Gamze Gürsoy (PhD in Bioengineering)
Stuti Thapliyal (MS)
Marco Comi (MS)
Sergio Ferrarini (MS)
Uthra Gopalakrishnan (MS)
Rashmi Hegde (MS)
Emma Mendonca (MS)
Pradyut Paul (High-school student at publication time)
Laura Palmieri (MS)
Nisha Paryani (MS)
Gowri Sangeetha Sivanathan (MS)

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