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Professor Mathematics and Statistics, WSU Vancouver kbala At wsu Dot edu 360-546 9167 |
Updates
- Feb 2025: Steinhaus filtration paper accepted to SoCG!
- Jan 2025: Patrick Gambill to work as an intern at MERL for Spring 2025. Congrats, Patrick!
- Dec 2024: Organizing a Special Session on topology+algebra of 3D printing at JMM 2025 (Thursday, Jan 9).
- Jul 2024: Fabiana Ferracina to join as a research fellow (postdoc) in Tohoku university. Congrats, Fabiana!
- Feb 2024: Two refereed papers accepted at IOS2024 (INFORMS Optimization Society Conference)!
- Apr 2023: Got the College of Arts and Sciences (biggest in WSU) Excellence in Graduate Teaching award!
- Apr 2023: Elizabeth Thompson wins 2nd place in the WSU 3MT competition. See her 3MT here. Congrats, Elizabeth!
- Mar 2023: Fabiana Ferracina is selected to the MRC on Complex Social Systems. Congrats, Fabiana!
- Jan 2023: Fabiana Ferracina to work as a research intern at PNNL. Congrats, Fabiana!
- Jul 2022: Yunqi Luo to join University of Science and Technology of China as a postdoc. Congrats, Yunqi!
- May 2022: Fabiana Ferracina is selected to the IPAM GRIPS Sendai Summer program. Congrats, Fabiana!
- Apr 2022: Awarded the Yang (Wendy) Liu Excellence in Teaching Award from the WSU International Programs. Thanks much!
- Feb
2022:
Yunqi
to join Alibaba after her PhD. Congrats, Yunqi! - Jan 2022: Kostia Lyman to work as a research intern at PNNL. Congrats, Kostia!
- Jun 2021: Prashant to join Natural Intelligence as a Research Scientist. Congrats, Prashant!
- Apr 2021: Yunqi to work as a Givens Summer associate at Argonne NL in Summer 2021. Congrats, Yunqi!
- Apr 2021: Enrique to join UC Davis Math as a Krener Assistant Professor in Fall 2021. Congrats, Enrique!
- Jan 2021: Enrique and Matthew present their research at JMM 2021.
- Oct 2020: DELTA Webinar giving an overview of Dimension Reduction.
- Sep 2020: AATRN Webinar on Steinhaus Filtration and Stable Paths in the Mapper.
- Sep 2020: MDP_MST: Python exploration of the Maximum Distance Problem using Minimum spanning Trees.
- Jul 2020: Methun defends his PhD (in CS), and is joining as a postdoc in U. Virginia. Congrats Dr. Kamruzzaman!
- Apr 2020: Our paper on continuous toolpaths in 3D printing is accepted to SPM 2020!
- Apr 2020: I've been selected to the WSU President's Teaching Academy!
- Mar 2020: New preprint on identifying soft matter surface features using GMT!
- Mar 2020: Webpage for the DELTA project is up. See also the NSF award.
- Feb 2020: YouTube Webinar on Introduction to Mapper
- Jan 2020: TEDx talk on how TDA helps see the invisible in data!
- Sep 2019: Ben defends his PhD, and joins WA State Gov (Olympia, WA) as a data scientist. Congrats, Dr. Rapone!
- Aug 2019: Three new papers on stable paths in Mapper, robust feasibility using degree theory, and continuous toolpaths in 3D printing!
- June 2019: Matthew Broussard (AFRL) and Nathan May (IPAM GRIPS-Berlin) head for summer internships. Congrats to both!
- May 2019: Nathaniel has joined New Relic as a machine learning engineer (in Portland). Congrats!
- Apr 2019: I'm the recipient of WSUV Chancellor's Research Award, 2019. Thanks much to all my students and coauthors!
- Dec 2018: New paper on Euler transformation of meshes.
- Sep 2018: WSU News story about my NSF grant.
- Aug 2018: New NSF grant (2018–2021, sole PI). Thank you NSF!
- Jun 2018: Paper on detecting divergent phenomics subpopulations using TDA is accepted in ACM-BCB!
- May 2018: Matthew Broussard (AFRL), Prashant Gupta (ORNL), and Nathaniel Saul (PNNL) head for summer internships. Congrats, all!
- Mar 2018: Nathaniel Saul is awarded a NASA Space Grant fellowship (we'll use TDA for galaxy identification)!
- Feb 2018: New paper on median shapes.
- Dec 2017: New paper on interesting paths in the Mapper. Talk at the Joint Mathematics Meetings, 2018.
- Nov 2017: Our work on waste gasification (preprint) was featured in the Columbian, a regional newspaper!
- Nov 2017: I'm featured in this month's WSU ResearchNow! web page!
- Jul 2017: New NSF grant on TDA in Phenomics!! Coverage in WSU Press
- Jul 2017: New paper on hypothesis extraction from phenomics data using TDA: arXiv.
- Dec 2016: Pullman will be a happening place in April 2017! Data Science Day on Apr 21, and the AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting on Apr 22-23 (my special sessions: 1, 2, 3).
- Apr 2016: Ben Rapone receives a Hacker Graduate Research Award. Congrats Ben!
- Apr 2016: Bei Wang and I are organizing a workshop on Topological Data Analysis in Biomedicine in ACM-BCB 2016. We have an excellent list of speakers. Please encourage your students to attend!
- Jan 2016: Workshop on Abstract Algebra and Algebraic Topology in Biomedicine in PSB 2016
- May 2015: Ben Rapone awarded a CAS RA for 2015-2016
- May 2015: REU this summer on optimization in algebraic topology
- April 2015: Ben Rapone receives the Hacker Teaching Award. Congrats Ben!
- Apr 2015: Our work on knapsack public key cryptosystems is featured in the news!
- Jan 2015: Sharif Ibrahim to join (May 2015) Intel as an Engineer. Congrats Sharif!
- Nov 2014: How to go from discrete to continuous carefully - see our new paper
- Oct 2014: Loops in cancer gene expression data! See our paper in PSB 2015
- May 2014: REU this Summer on medical data interpretation
- Nov 2013: Gavin Smith to join Intel as an Engineer. Congrats Gavin!
- Aug 2013: IMA Year on Applications of Algebraic Topology
- Apr 2013: Not totally unimodular? Not a problem! See our new paper
- Apr 2013: Paper on Edge contractions and simplicial homology
- May 2012: Summer school on geometry and data @ WSU - July 9-27, 2012
- Apr 2012: Sabbatical in 2012-2013 at OHSU
- Mar 2012: REU this Summer on Computational Topology and Geometric Analysis
- Nov 2011: Computing flat norm in arbitrary dimensions
- June 2011: NSF grant link 2 link 3 (Total budget: $916K/4 yrs for 3 univs)
- Mar 2010: Program on Modern Trends in Optimization and Its Application at IPAM (Sep 12-Dec 17, 2010)
- Feb 2010: Using integer homology instead of binary homology makes NP-hard problem tractable
- Dec 2009: Svetlana Lockwood is CRA UG Research Award finalist and Goldwater Scholar
About Me
- B.Tech, IIT Madras, 1999; PhD, OR, UNC Chapel Hill, 2004.
- WSU (Pullman, 2004–2014; Vancouver, 2014–now).
Research
- Applied algebraic topology
- Geometric measure theory
- Mathematical aspects of 3D printing
- Discrete and nonlinear optimization
- Geometry and topology in physical chemistry
- Computational models for surgical and biomedical applications
- Computational biology
- CV
- Patent(s): US12118604B2
Funding
I am grateful to the NSF and WA AGO for funding my research through several grants over the years. Find out more about these projects by clicking the link above.
Students (Read this bit if you're a student looking to work with me)
First placement after degree is listed
- Ye Tian (PhD,2011); JPMorgan Chase
- Gavin Smith (PhD, 2013); Intel
- Sharif Ibrahim (PhD, 2014, joint with Kevin Vixie); Intel
- Yunfeng Hu (PhD, 2018, joint with Kevin Vixie); Emsi
- Nathaniel Saul (MS, 2019); New Relic
- Ben Rapone (PhD, 2019); Data scientist, WA Gov Office
- Methun Kamruzzaman (PhD in CS, 2020, joint with Ananth Kalyanaraman); postdoc in U. Virginia
- Enrique Alvarado (PhD, 2021, joint with Kevin Vixie); Krener Assistant Professor in UC Davis
- Matthew Broussard (PhD, 2021); TD Bank
- Prashant Gupta (PhD, 2021); Natural Intelligence
- Yunqi Luo (PhD, 2022); postdoc in USTC
- Nathan May (PhD, 2022); Northrup Gruman
- Kostiantyn Lyman (PhD, 2024); AMD
- Fabiana Ferracina (PhD in Statistics, 2024); research fellow (postdoc) in Tohoku university
- Elizabeth Thompson (PhD, current)
- Patrick Gambill (PhD, current, joint with Daryl DeFord)
- Liya Boukhbinder (PhD, current, joint with Kevin Vixie)
- Zachary Fendler (PhD, current)
- Amber Thrall (PhD, current)
- Nicholas Jones (PhD, current)
Teaching (all classes I've taught)
- Integer Optimization (Spring 2025)
- Mathematics and Statistics Seminar (Spring 2025)