Pritheega Magalingam
First author of "Using shortest path to discover criminal community" (Digital Investigation, 2015), the paper that originated SPNSA (the Shortest Paths Network Search Algorithm) as a method for extracting compact, interpretable sub-networks of likely wrongdoers from a larger graph, seeded with known-bad "feed" nodes. She matters to this vault as the originating figure behind an algorithm that later research — including a 2026 paper on anti-money-laundering transaction graphs — builds on and repositions, without revisiting her original design. The 2015 paper demonstrated SPNSA on the Enron e-mail corpus, seeded with people convicted of money laundering in Enron's collapse.
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