Chayant Tanti's Homepage

I am working on my PhD with Prof Tanya Berger-Wolf on algorithms for network analysis. My lab is compbio.cs.uic.edu My CV is here.

Contact Information

Teaching Assistantship

• Spring 2012: CS 301 Languages and Automata

• Fall 2011: CS 401 Computer Algorithm I
• Spring 2011: CS 266 Computer Architecture I: Logic and Computer Structures
• Spring 2008: CS 401 Computer Algorithm I

Software

• Apr 23, 2011 Hadoop MapReduce-based algorithms: Brandes for computing betwenness centrality, Girvan-Newman for finding community structure.
• Feb 9, 2011 CommDy 0.2 - maintenance update
• Aug 11, 2010 Path-Cover Approximation 0.1 - Path-Cover Approximation
• Sep 9, 2009 CommDy 0.1 - Dynamic community identification

Publications

• C. Tantipathananandh, T. Berger-Wolf. Finding Communities in Dynamic Social Networks. IEEE ICDM, 2011.
• T. Berger-Wolf, I. R. Fischhoff, D. I. Rubenstein, S. R. Sundaresan, C. Tantipathananandh. Dynamic Analysis of Social Networks of Equids. Applications of Social Network Anslysis, 2010.
• T. Berger-Wolf, M. Lahiri, C. Tantipathananandh, D. Kempe. Finding Structure in Dynamic Networks. 1st Workshop on Information in Networks, 2009.
• K. Reda, C. Tantipathananandh, T. Berger-Wolf, J. Leigh, A. Johnson. Poster: SocioScape a Tool for Interactive Exploration of Spatio-Temporal Group Dynamics in Social Networks. InfoVis, 2009.
  • See also Khairi's MS thesis ZebraVis
• C. Tantipathananandh, T. Berger-Wolf. Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithm for Identifying Dynamic Communities. Proc. 15th ACM SIGKDD Intl. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2009.
  • See also video lecture slides CommDy
• C. Tantipathananandh, T. Berger-Wolf, D. Kempe. A Framework For Identifying Communities in Dynamic Social Networks. Proc. 13th ACM SIGKDD Intl. Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2007.
  • See also video lecture slides CommDy
• Habiba, C. Tantipathananandh, T. Berger-Wolf. Betweenness Centrality Measure in Dynamic Networks. DIMACS Technical Report, 2007. (DIMACS website with dead link)
• C. Tantipathananandh. Community Identification in Dynamic Social Networks Using Generalized Coloring. Master's thesis, UIC, 2007.
  • See also slides

Other Materials

• Approximation Algorithm for MAX-CUT by Goemans and Williamson - slides
• Resources for learning English at UIC

Miscellaneous

• Courses that I have taken at UIC.
• Calendars for Chicago-land dance venues for Lindy Hop, Balboa, Blues, ... (Windy Hop and This Week In Chicago):
• Chicago Summer Dance
• Photography: Europe trip Around Chicago
• Sudoku solver
• Learning Thai language in Chicago.
• Bookmarks that redirect the current page through UIC proxy (for downloading papers) bookmark1 or bookmark2.
  or copy & paste this
  • javascript:location.href='http://proxy.cc.uic.edu/login?url='+location.href

Spanish Learning Resouces

• Acapela Text-to-Speech try the voices of "American Spanish - Rosa" or "Antonio".
• Dictionaries and conjugation charts:
  • Google Translate
  • Spanish Dict
  • Wiktionary
  • Word Champ
• jMemorize a flashcards program. Use it with DropBox to bring your flashcards everywhere you go.
• Lingus TV short series for your edutainment. Their easy level is hard!