Welcome to the home page of Bhaskar DasGupta

I am an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). I am also affiliated with the Bioengineering department at UIC.

My specific research interests include designing and implementing efficient computational methods for computationally hard problems in application areas such as bioinformatics, systems biology and hybrid systems. For example, my recent works for the last couple of years have dealt with synthesizing signal transduction networks from both direct and couble-causal experimental evidences, understanding their dynamical and connectivity nature (properties) and reverse engineering such networks via sub-modular response methods. Outside systems biology and biological networks, I have also been involved in other research projects such as protein sequence designs and protein substructure comparisons in proteomics and DNA bar-coding issues.

Outside biology, my broader research interests in computer science include designing efficient algorithms for computationally hard problems in diverse areas such as computational geometry, VLSI/CAD, parallel computing, optical networks, graph-theoretic problems and combinatorial auctions. I am also interested in lower-bound proofs for computationally hard problems. My research works have been supported by NSF grants, including an NSF career award.

To know more about about myself, my research and other stuff, please follow one of the following links. Please check my tentative travel schedule for availability for meeting.

`if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
                ("Alices Adventures in Wonderland and through the Looking Glass")

• Research:-
  • Vitae (does not contain all information and may not be up-to-date. Please check the rest of this page for more up-to-date information.)
  • Research grants: I am currently supported by NSF grants IIS-0346973 (career), DBI-0543365 and IIS-0612044.
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  • Some research projects (may not be up to date)
  • Some Invited presentations
  • Conference/workshop involvements:
    • Organizing workshops
      • Past:
        • DIMACS Workshop on Information Processing by Protein Structures in Molecular Recognition, June 13 - 14, 2005, DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University (co-organizer: Jie Liang)
    • Program committee activities
      • Current (reverse chronological order):
        • Algorithms and Bioinformatics Track, 2010 ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, Hammamet, Tunisia, May 16-19th, 2010.
        • FutureTech 2010, Busan, Korea, May 21-23, 2010.
        • 2^nd International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB-2010), Honolulu, Hawaii, March 24-26 2010.
        • IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (ACSE 2010), Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, March 15-17, 2010.
        • 20^th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2009), Oahu, Hawaii, December 16-18, 2009.
        • 20^th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW2009), Pacifico Yokohama, Japan, December 14-16, 2009.
        • Co-Vice Chair, Cross-Cutting Computational Methods and Bioinformatics Infrastructure track, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2009), Washington DC, November 1-4, 2009.
      • Past:
        • 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
    • Local organizing committee member
      • Past:
        • STOC 2004 Click here for details
• Teaching
  • Teaching assignments and course evaluations at Rutgers-Camden
  • Teaching assignments and course evaluations at UIC
• My tentative travel schedule
• Student support availability
  • Few RA positions are available starting Fall 2009. You may apply for CV or other related information; I will respond if I am interested in your qualifications.
• Miscellaneous
  • Computer science department homepage at UIC.
  • Theory group homepage at UIC
  • Other useful links
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