Raissa D’Souza

 
 

Raissa's research focuses on self-organization and phase transitions on lattices, networks, and chains. How do patterns and structural organization arise from small-scale, local interactions within a system? How does this affect the location and order of phase transitions? Finally, what is the interplay of structure and function in evolving systems?

She builds mathematical models, which can apply to real-world systems, and analyzes data from real-world systems (such as interactions of functions in open-source software) to uncover robust design structures.

Her research and publications span the fields of physics, applied math and computer science.

About Raissa

Coordinates

EMAIL  rmdsouza (at) ucdavis (dot) edu

OFFICE 1042 Kemper

PHONE  530-754-8405

WEB  https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~raissa/

MAIL  Mechanical & Aero. Eng. Dept., Univ. CA at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616

Research

  1. 1.Structure, Function, and Growth of Networks

  2. 2.Phase Transitions & Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

  3. 3.Novel Computation

  4. 4.Self-Organization

  5. 5.Principles in Open Source Software Design

Affiliations

  1. 1.Complexity Sciences Center: Faculty

  2. 2.Associate Dean of Research, College of Engineering

  3. 3.Department of Mechanical & Aeronautics Engineering: Professor

  4. 4.Department of Computer Science: Professor

  5. 5.Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics

  6. 6.Graduate Group in Physics

  7. 7.Santa Fe Institute: External Professor