Welcome to DasGupta's Creative Algorithms Lab

History

The lab has been around since 2004. Bulk of its initial funding was provided by NSF (CAREER) grant IIS-0346973 over a five year period. Other past supporting NSF grants include DBI-0543365, CCR-0296041, CNS-020679, CCF-0208749, IIS-1160995, DBI-1062328, CCF-1216096 and IIS-1814931.

Location

Room 1228B SEL (West)

Mission

Our goal is to understand fundamental algorithmic complexity of problems that arise in several different interdisciplinary areas such as biology, physics, mathematics, control theory, finance and economics. We believe in free dissemination of scientific information.

For publications from our lab, see the paper repository of the lab.

For softwares, see both the paper repository and the software repository of the lab.

Current and past PhD students:

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

Notable other (MS, BS, high-school etc.) students from UIC or from close to UIC that have co-authored research papers with the lab members:

• 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)

We thankfully acknowledge support from all past NSF grants.