Dr. Vaidy Sivaraman has been awarded funding by the Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) of the College of Arts and Sciences for his project titled "Pure meets applied: Graph theory in network science". A description of the project follows.
The objective of this project is to use techniques from graph theory to understand large real-world networks. In particular, understanding centrality measures and clustering properties of networks, and using them to extract meaningful information about real-world networks to predict behavior with applications in disease control and cybersecurity.