Fundamentals

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Laboratory for Computational Population Biology, which is within the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. My current research interests are in network analysis and machine learning, and specifically in the confluence of the two in interesting applications. I am also interested in new applications and techniques for collecting social network data, and somewhat ironically, in the privacy issues that arise from this. My advisor is Prof. Tanya Berger-Wolf.

Office: SEL 4211
E-mail: mlahiri#cs.uic.edu

Publications

[pdf] [code] M. Lahiri and T.Y. Berger-Wolf. Periodic subgraph mining in dynamic networks. Knowledge and Information Systems, to appear.

[pdf] [code] M. Lahiri and T.Y. Berger-Wolf. Mining Periodic Behavior in Dynamic Social Networks. Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008), Pisa, Italy. December 2008.

[pdf] M. Lahiri, A. Maiya, R. Sulo, Habiba and T.Y. Berger-Wolf. The Impact of Structural Changes on Predictions of Diffusion in Networks. ICDM Workshop on Analysis of Dynamic Networks, Pisa, Italy. December 2008.

[pdf] M. Lahiri and T.Y. Berger-Wolf. Structure Prediction in Temporal Networks using Frequent Subgraphs. Proc. IEEE CIDM 2007, Honolulu, Hawaii. April 2007.

[pdf] C.W. Liew and M. Lahiri. Exploration or Convergence? Another Meta-Control Mechanism for GAs. Proc. FLAIRS 2005, Clearwater, Florida. AAAI Press, 2005

[pdf] A. Dougherty and M. Lahiri. Shape of ammonium chloride dendrite tips at small supersaturation. Journal of Crystal Growth 274 (2005): 233-240 issues 1-2.

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Expected May 2010
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

B.S. (Hons.) in Computer Science

May 2005
Lafayette College, Easton, PA

Other Stuff

I'm starting to use this Flickr thing.

A little experiment to visualize the news in India.

A small script for Firefox that enhances Google Scholar by letting you cross-reference citation lists.

Some general code.

My 80-minute Sudoku solver challenge. A newer, faster self-contained version is here.

My Erdos number is at most 4.

One sequence is M. Lahiri &rarr T.Y. Berger-Wolf &rarr E. Reingold &rarr A. Fraenkel &rarr P. Erdos

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Social networks research, circa 2001. These two brilliant cartoons are by Jason Lutes (originally with different text) and accompanied a New York Times article by Paul Krugman.