Dr. Debajyoti Mondal Receives New Scholar Award

Mondal was first appointed to the department as an assistant professor in 2017. Upon arriving at USask, Mondal began teaching algorithm courses, and also created information visualization and graph drawing courses in addition to teaching.

He is also the founder and director of the Visualization, Geometry, and Algorithms (VGA) Lab at the Department of Computer Science. Through the lab, Mondal has supervised 16 undergraduate, seven graduate and three PhD students.

As an early career researcher, Mondal’s work has hundreds of citations in Google Scholar. He is known internationally for his research on computational geometry and network visualization. He has collaborated across campus with researchers to visualize data in plant phenotyping (P2IRC project), hydrology (GWF project) and emergency medicine (CBME project).

In a collaboration with City of Saskatoon through a Research Junction research project, he is focusing on creating a more efficient transit system through developing algorithms that takes a large volume of complex data that generates visual hidden patterns. Mondal’s work helps analyze and predict ridership changes to optimize the transit system.

"I feel honoured and grateful to receive the New Scholar recognition from the college,” he said. “I am thankful to my family for their tremendous patience and support as I often need to submerge myself in research. I am blessed to have wonderful collaborators and students who have always been the source of my work inspiration."

This article was originally published by artsandscience.usask.ca.