Rate My Professor Irina Perepelitsa

Perepelitsa holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mathematics from Novosibirsk State University in Russia and earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Houston in Fall 2025, advised by Annalisa Quaini. Her research specialization is Discrete Mathematics, with publications spanning coding theory, graph coloring, and more recently crowd dynamics modeling. Key works include 'Explicit construction of families of LDPC codes with no 4-cycles' (IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2004, co-authored with J.L. Kim, U.N. Peled, V. Pless, S. Friedland), 'Explicit construction of families of LDPC codes with girth at least six' (Proceedings of the Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2002, co-authored with J.L. Kim, U.N. Peled, V. Pless), 'Bounds on the chromatic number of intersection graphs of sets in the plane' (Discrete Mathematics, 2003), 'Colouring triangle-free intersection graphs of boxes on the plane' (Discrete Mathematics, 2000, co-authored with A.V. Kostochka), and 'Coupling microscopic and mesoscopic models for crowd dynamics with emotional contagion' (Frontiers in Physics, 2025, co-authored with A. Quaini). In recognition of her teaching excellence, she received the Provost Core Award in 2025. Her scholarly contributions demonstrate impact in discrete mathematics and related fields through peer-reviewed publications.