Jaya M. Manthripragada

Math Notes and Projects

Illinois Math Lab

Fall 2025 - Eigenvector Centrality Preferential Attachment Trees

Along with Dr. Neeladri Maitra (Faculty advisor), Taegu Kang (Grad student leader, along with me), and four undergraduate student scholars: Arha Gatram, Shuwei Zhang, Haoyu Tang, Srujan Roplekar.
Winner of the 2026 IML Research Award.

Eigenvector Preferential Attachment Networks research poster
Eigenvector Preferential Attachment Networks — click to enlarge

Directed Reading Program Mentor

Fall 2025 - Random Graphs and Complex Networks

Mentored undergraduate students in foundational random graph models and network theory.

Seminar Organization

Graduate Probability Seminar at UIUC

Organizer since Spring 2025.