Bala Krishnamoorthy (WSU)

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