Swapnoneel Roy

Ph.D Student and Teaching Assistant
Computer Science & Engineering
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

e-mail: sroy7 (AT) cse.buffalo.edu

Current Research Activities

Swapnoneel Roy's general research interest is within the field of Approximation Algorithms. Currently, as a member of Dr. Atri Rudra's research group at SUNY Buffalo - the Algorithms and Theory group, he currently explores graph theoretic hard problems which require approximation algorithms with a good approximation ratio. Prior to joining SUNY Buffalo in Fall 2008, Swapnoneel worked as a software engineer at the IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore, India.

Current Teaching Activities

  • Teaching Assistant, CSE-111 Great Ideas in Computer Science@ University at Buffalo, SUNY (Spring 2009)
    • Recitation Sessions:
      • A1 (Mon 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM @ Capen 201)
      • A2 (Tue 09:00 AM - 11:00 AM @ Park 143)
      • B2 (Tue 15:00 PM - 17:00 PM @ Capen 201)
      • B5 (Fri 10:00 AM - 12:00 AM @ Park 143)
    • Office Hours:
      • Thursday 15:00 PM - 17:00 PM @ Bell 329
    • Notes:
      • Feel free to come to any of my recitations if you have to miss your original session.
      • Please write me an e-mail before coming to my office hours, so that I'll be able to control the number of students coming at the same time, to avoid you guys waiting in line.

Honors & Awards

  • Awarded GATE scholarship for MS at IIT Madras for a duration of 3 years maximum starting August 2004
  • Awarded "Dinner For Two" award at IBM for outstanding contributions towards research and software engineering
  • Awarded "IBM BRAVO" award at IBM for producing high quality publications
  • Awarded Teaching Assistantship for PhD at SUNY Buffalo for a duration of 6 years maximum starting Fall 2008

Education

Presentation and Talks

  • Towards Construction of Optimal Strip-Exchanging Moves: Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 2007, Harvard Medical School Conference Center, Boston, MA, USA (16th October, 2007).
  • Algorithms for Sorting Using Genomically Motivated Primitives: National Conference on Methods and Models in Computing (NCM2C-2007), JNU, New Delhi, India (13th December, 2007).
  • Block Sorting: A New Characterization and A New Heuristic: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Volume ISSN 1307-6884, Rome, Italy (25th April, 2008).
  • Agile Practices in Health Monitor and CSA Line Item: A Learning Experience: IBM Academy of Technology Second Agile Methods and Practices Conference McKimmon Center at NC State Univ, Raleigh, NC, USA (25th June, 2008).

Publications

  • Journal
    • Swapnoneel Roy and Ashok K Thakur: Approximate Strip Exchanging. International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, Volume 1, Number 1, pp.88-101. [Link]
    • Anupama Pande, Ashok K Thakur, and Swapnoneel Roy: Complex-Valued Neural Network in Signal Processing: International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Volume 2 Number 3 ISSN: 2070-3937.[.pdf]
  • Refereed Conference Proceedings
    • Swapnoneel Roy and Ashok K Thakur: Towards Construction of Optimal Strip-Exchanging Moves . Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 2007. BIBE 2007. Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference. Publication Date: 14-17 Oct. 2007, On page(s): 821-827, Boston, MA, USA.[Link]
    • Swapnoneel Roy, Ashok K Thakur, Anupama Pande, and Minhazur Rahman: Algorithms and Design for an Autonomous Biological System . icas, p. 35, Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS’07), 2007.[Link]
    • Swapnoneel Roy and Amitabh Bhattacharya: Algorithms for Sorting Using Genomically Motivated Primitives. In Proc.of the National Conference on Methods and Models in Computing (NCM2C-2007), JNU, New Delhi, India.[Link]
    • Swapnoneel Roy, Ashok K Thakur, and Minhazur Rahman: Block Sorting: A New Characterization and A New Heuristic. In the proc. of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Volume 28 April 2008 ISSN 1307-6884, Rome, Italy.[.pdf]
    • Swapnoneel Roy, Minhazur Rahman, and Ashok K Thakur: Sorting Primitives and Genome Rearrangement in Bioinformatics: A Unified Perspective. In the proc. of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Volume 28 April 2008 ISSN 1307-6884, Rome, Italy.[.pdf]
    • Swapnoneel Roy and Kayalvizhi Ganesan: Agile Practices in Health Monitor and CSA Line Item: A Learning Experience. IBM Academy of Technology Second Agile Methods and Practices Conference McKimmon Center at NC State Univ June 23-25, 2008.