Sanjukta Krishnagopal

Sanjukta Krishnagopal is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), affiliated with the Networks Lab. She holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park. She maintains an off-campus affiliation with UCLA's Applied Mathematics department. Her research focuses on developing computational and mathematical tools to study complex systems across physical, social, and biological domains.

Her research areas include:

• Network analysis: modeling social/biological systems, graph-based machine learning, and time-evolving hypergraphs
• Computational social science: diffusion of political ideas, hate speech dynamics, self-organization behaviors, and societal fairness
• Machine learning for physical systems: dynamics in climate/ocean systems, physics-informed models, and geometric/topological data structures

Her work bridges interdisciplinary methodologies combining computational models, mathematical theory, and algorithm development to address real-world challenges. Though no specific awards or grants are listed, her postdoctoral fellowship as a UC Presidential Scholar at UC Berkeley and UCLA highlights her academic trajectory.