Biography
I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the San Diego State University. Prior to SDSU I was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computing and Information Science (SCIS) at the University of Maine. Prior to UMaine.
I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor working with Alfred O. Hero.
I was CAPES-PNPD funder postdoctoral fellow at the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar), in 2014 and 2015. I was visiting scholar at Polytechnic University of Turin, between 2011 and 2013.
I received my Ph.D. in Inferential Statistics from the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) in 2013.
Research Interests
Machine Learning and Computer Vision
- Deep Neural Network Robustness and Efficiency
- Foundation of Continual Learning
- Domain adaptation and Knowledge Transfer
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- Explainable and Trustworthy AI
- Multimodal Learning with Transformers
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- Graph Summarization via Representation Learning
- Applications of Machine Learning Approaches in Real-Time Problems
- Statistical Machine Learning and Signal Processing
- Semantic Segmentation with Applications in Forestry and Healthcare
- Information-theoretic Measures Applications in Adversarial Machine Learning
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Data Science
- Devoloping Theory and Algorithms for Data Analysis
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- Data mining and Pattern Recognition
Education / Appointments
2024 - Present
San Diego State University, USA
Associate Professor, Computer Science
2019 - 2024
University of Maine, USA
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
2016 - 2019
University of Michigan, USA
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Machine Learning and Data Science
2014 - 2016
Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
Post-Doctoral Research Scholar, Information Theory and Bayesian Inference
2011 - 2013
Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Visting Scholar, Mathematical Statistics and Advanced Probability
2008 - 2013
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
PhD, Inferential Statistics