Robert Ellis

  • Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics
  • Program Director, Bachelor of Science in Data Science

Education

Ph.D. - University of California at San Diego

Research Interests

Asymptotic rates of adaptive and non-adaptive codes; liar games and their connection to packing and covering problems; families of near-perfect adaptive codes; random geometric graphs and their application to wireless networks; small subgraphs of Erdos-Renyi and collaboration random graphs; probabilistic methods; algorithm design and analysis

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Awards

2023 Michael J. Graff Award for Innovation in Teaching

Fall 2008 Honorable Mention, IIT College of Science and Letters Dean Excellence in Research Award

Fall 2009 IIT Interprofessional Project Program (IPRO) Outstanding Faculty Award

Project NExT (New Experiences in Teaching) Fellow, 2005-2006

Four Dean's Letters of Commendation for high course evaluations (MATH 152, 430, 431, 454)

Publications

J. N. Cooper and R. B. Ellis, "Linearly bounded liars, adaptive covering codes, and deterministic random walks," accepted to Journal of Combinatorics.

R. B. Ellis and K. L. Nyman, "Two-batch liar games on a general bounded channel, J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 116 (2009), 1253-1270.

R. B. Ellis, J. L. Martin, and C. H. Yan, "Random geometric graph diameter in the unit ball,"Algorithmica 47 (2007), 421-438.

G. Calinescu and R. B. Ellis, "Monitoring schedules for randomly deployed sensor networks," in Proceedings of the DIALM-POMC Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing (2008), pp. 3-12.

Projects

Asymptotic limits for adaptive coding

Variance of small subgraph counts in random graphs

Expanding ResearchWeb by establishing an undergraduate research journal at IIT - IPRO 321

Grants

NSA Young Investigator's Grant, 2007-2008

AFRL Grant, 2007-2008

Expertise

Combinatorics

Graph Theory

Adaptive Coding Theory

Probabilistic Methods

Algorithm Design & Analysis

Robert Ellis

Contact Information

312.567.5336 312.567.3135 E1 111A See course pages; email for appointment