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 research interests span several areas such as Theoretical Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics/Algorithms, Computational Biology, Computational Geometry, Computational Economics and Finance etc.

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

Interesting tidbits:

• High school student Pradyut Paul published in Physical Review E with our group.

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My brief bio My public Google Scholar Profile Publications (with online copies) Contact Information DasGupta's Creative Algorithms Lab Slides for some presentations Softwares DNA-BAR -- Distinguisher Selection for Robust DNA Barcoding Software for decomposing biological networks into monotone subsystems NET-SYNTHESIS: Software for synthesis of a biological signal trasduction network from direct and indirect experimental evidences CPalign: Software and web server for topology independent protein structural alignment Software for causal network inference via set-covering method KINALYZER: A Computer Program for Reconstructing Sibling Groups

Some upcoming talks: (Keynote) International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, May 21-23, 2012 Mathematical Finance theme, 2012 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, July 24-28, 2012 Some elementary publication statistics Erdös number: 3 several routes such as        DasGupta → Piotr Berman → Michael Saks → Paul Erdös        DasGupta → Georg Schnitger → Endre Szémerédi → Paul Erdös        DasGupta → Sampath Kannan → Pavel Valtr → Paul Erdös        DasGupta → Martin Fürer → Ernst P. Specker → Paul Erdös        DasGupta → György Turan → Ajtai Miklos → Paul Erdös co-authors: via DBLP My co-author network (Courtsey of Arnetminer)

Upcoming book: Bhaskar DasGupta and Jie Liang, Models and Algorithms for Biomolecules and Molecular Networks, IEEE Press, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. Editorial and other academic/administrative responsibilities Current: Member of editorial board, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IJDMB) Associate editor, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications (DMAA) Member of editorial board, Advances in Bioinformatics Member of editorial board, Theoretical Biology Insights Member of editorial board, International Journal of Information Sciences and Computer Engineering Member of editorial board, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Biology Member of editorial advisory board, The Open Bioinformatics Journal Reviewer, NIH study group on Small Business: Computational Biology, Image Processing, and Data Mining [IMST (14)] Chairperson, Chicago Chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Past: Associate editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2009-2010) Guest editor (with Piotr Berman and Jie Liang), special issue of Algorithmica (Volume 48, Number 4, August 2007) on Algorithmic Methodologies for processing Protein Structures, Sequences and Networks CS theory events at UIC

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• 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.)
  • Funding
    Current: (NSF) DBI-1062328, IIS-1064681.
    Past: Click here for details
  • 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)
    • Advisory Board
      • International Workshop on Future Directions of Artificial Neural Networks (FDANN10), 12-14 November 2010, Nagpur India.
    • Program committee activities
      • Current (reverse chronological order):
        • 23^rd International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 19-21, 2012.
        • 2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2012), Philadelphia, October 4-7, 2012.
        • Plenary Sessions co-Chair, 9^th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012.
        • 8^th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), May 21-23, 2012, Dallas,Texas.
        • 7^th IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Engineering (ACSE 2012), April 2-4, 2012. Phuket, Thailand.
        • 4^th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB-2012), Las Vegas, Nevada, March 12 -14, 2012.
        • 2^nd IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), February 23-25, 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada.
        • Foundations of Computer Science track, 38^th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2012), Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, January 21-27, 2012.
      • Past:
        • 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
    • 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
• Student support availability
• Miscellaneous
  • Computer science department homepage at UIC.
  • Theory group homepage at UIC
  • Current graduate students
    • Current PhD students
      • Venkatkumar Srinivasan (CS)
      • Lakshmi Kaligounder (CS)
      • Guru Devanla (CS)
• Other useful links

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