• B.A. (2004) Mathematics, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• B.S. (2004) Physics (with Honors), Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• M.S. (2006) Physics, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Ph.D. (2008) Physics, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests:

• Neuroscience
• Information theory
• The interaction of virtual systems with objects in the real world
• Nonlinear dynamics

Selected Recent Publications:

1. V. Gintautas, A. Hagberg, and L. M. A. Bettencourt. When is social computation better than the sum of its parts? Recently accepted to Proc. of Social Computing, Behavior Modeling, and Prediction., 2009.
2. V. Gintautas and A. Hubler. A simple, low-cost, data-logging pendulum built from a computer mouse. Recently submitted to American J. of Physics., 2009.
3. M. A. Rodriguez, V. Gintautas, and A. Pepe. The relationship between concert and listening behavior: a Grateful Dead analysis. First Monday [Online], 14(1), 2009.
4. M. I. Ham, V. Gintautas, M. A. Rodriguez, R. A. Bennett, C. L. Santa Maria, and L. M. A. Bettencourt. Density-dependence of functional development in spiking cortical networks grown in vitro. Recently submitted to J. Computational Neuroscience., 2008.
5. V. Gintautas, A. E. Champagne, F. G. Kondev, and R. Longland. Thermal equilibration of 176 Lu via k-mixing. Recently submitted to Phys. Rev. C., 2008.
6. L. M. A. Bettencourt, V. Gintautas, and M. I. Ham. Identification of functional information subgraphs in complex networks. Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 238701, 2008.