Ali Ghodsi

Professor, University of Waterloo

[first name].[last name] [AT] uwaterloo.ca

Ali Ghodsi is a professor at the University of Waterloo, the Director of the Data Science Lab, and a Vector Institute Faculty Affiliate, specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence. His research centers on developing theoretical frameworks and practical algorithms in AI, with applications spanning natural language processing, bioinformatics, and computer vision.

He is the co-author of the influential book Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning (Springer). His widely viewed lectures on YouTube provide accessible insights into complex AI topics for a broad audience.

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Orchid: Flexible and Data-Dependent Convolution for Sequence Modeling

Karami, Mahdi, Ghodsi, Ali

NeurIPS, 2024

GraphPI: Efficient Protein Inference with Graph Neural Networks

Ma, Zheng, Chen, Jiazhen, Xin, Lei, Ghodsi, Ali

Journal of Proteome Research, 2024

Qdylora: Quantized dynamic low-rank adaptation for efficient large language model tuning

Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Valipour, Mojtaba, Zhu, Tianshu, Tahaei, Marzieh, Kwon, Hyock Ju, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

emnlp-industry, 2024

Efficient Citer: Tuning Large Language Models for Enhanced Answer Quality and Verification

Tahaei, Marzieh, Jafari, Aref, Rashid, Ahmad, Alfonso-Hermelo, David, Bibi, Khalil, Wu, Yimeng, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL, 2024

Echoatt: Attend, copy, then adjust for more efficient large language models

Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Jafari, Aref, Sharma, Aman, Jami, Benyamin, Kwon, Hyock Ju, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-IV) workshop, 2024

Systems and methods for de novo peptide sequencing using deep learning and spectrum pairs

Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Lei, XIN, Chen, Xin, Baozhen, SHAN, Ghodsi, Ali, Li, Ming

, 2023

Do we need Label Regularization to Fine-tune Pre-trained Language Model

Kobyzev, Ivan, Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Li, Tianda, Do-Omri, Alan, Lu, Peng, Ghodsi, Ali, Poupart, Pascal

Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

Sorted LLaMA: Unlocking the Potential of Intermediate Layers of Large Language Models for Dynamic Inference Using Sorted Fine-Tuning (SoFT)

Kavehzadeh, Parsa, Valipour, Mojtaba, Tahaei, Marzieh, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08968, 2023

Continuation kd: Improved knowledge distillation through the lens of continuation optimization

Jafari, Aref, Kobyzev, Ivan, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Poupart, Pascal, Ghodsi, Ali

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

Supervised discriminative dimensionality reduction by learning multiple transformation operators

Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Jahromi, Mansoor Zolghadri, Ghodsi, Ali

Expert Systems with Applications, 2021

CNN and deep sets for end-to-end whole slide image representation learning

Hemati, Sobhan, Kalra, Shivam, Meaney, Cameron, Babaie, Morteza, Ghodsi, Ali, Tizhoosh, Hamid

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2021

Computationally instrument-resolution-independent de novo peptide sequencing for high-resolution devices

Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Xin, Lei, Chen, Xin, Li, Ming, Shan, Baozhen, Ghodsi, Ali

Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021

Knowledge distillation by utilizing backward pass knowledge in neural networks

Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Ghodsi, Ali

Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP workshop), 2021

Annealing knowledge distillation

Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Sharma, Pranav, Ghodsi, Ali

Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021

How to select one among all? an extensive empirical study towards the robustness of knowledge distillation in natural language understanding

Li, Tianda, Rashid, Ahmad, Jafari, Aref, Sharma, Pranav, Ghodsi, Ali, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021

Pro-KD: Progressive distillation by following the footsteps of the teacher

Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Jafari, Aref, Salad, Puneeth, Sharma, Pranav, Pasand, Ali Saheb, Ghodsi, Ali

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022, 2021

Deep learning enables de novo peptide sequencing from data-independent-acquisition mass spectrometry

Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Qiao, Rui, Xin, Lei, Chen, Xin, Liu, Chuyi, Zhang, Xianglilan, Shan, Baozhen, Ghodsi, Ali, Li, Ming

Nature methods, 2019

Deepnovov2: Better de novo peptide sequencing with deep learning

Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Xin, Lei, Shan, Baozhen, Li, Ming, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08514, 2019

Robust locally-linear controllable embedding

Banijamali, Ershad, Shu, Rui, Bui, Hung, Ghodsi, Ali, others

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2018

Ensembles of random projections for nonlinear dimensionality reduction

Karimi, Amir Hossein, Shafiee, Mohammad Javad, Ghodsi, Ali, Wong, Alexander

Journal of Computational Vision and Imaging Systems, 2017

Minimizing the discrepancy between source and target domains by learning adapting components

Dorri, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali

Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2014

Adapting component analysis

Dorri, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali

2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining, 2012

An efficient greedy method for unsupervised feature selection

Farahat, Ahmed K, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining, 2011

Robust locally linear embedding using penalty functions

Winlaw, Manda, Dehkordy, Leila Samimi, Ghodsi, Ali

The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011

Parameter selection for smoothing splines using Stein's unbiased risk estimator

Seifzadeh, Sepideh, Rostami, Mohammad, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhreddine

The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011

Nonnegative matrix factorization via rank-one downdate

Biggs, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Vavasis, Stephen

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Machine learning, 2008

Subjective localization with action respecting embedding

Bowling, Michael, Wilkinson, Dana, Ghodsi, Ali, Milstein, Adam

Robotics Research: Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR, 2007

Action respecting embedding

Bowling, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Wilkinson, Dana

Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning, 2005

A novel greedy algorithm for Nystrom approximation

Farahat, Ahmed, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics,

Graph Neural Network, ChebNet, Graph Convolutional Network, and Graph Autoencoder: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Diffusion Models: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Reinforcement Learning: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Backpropagation and optimization in deep learning: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

PAC Learnability and Information Bottleneck in Deep Learning: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Maximum Mean Discrepancy and Generative Moment Matching Networks: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Neural Network Compression and Knowledge Distillation: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Multidimensional Scaling, Sammon Mapping, and Isomap

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Random Projection

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Background on Kernels

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Fisher Discriminant Analysis

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Kernel Dimension Reduction

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Factor analysis and probabilistic principal component analysis

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Locally linear embedding

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Stochastic neighbour embedding

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Principal component analysis

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP)

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Deep metric learning

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Unified Spectral Framework and Maximum Variance Unfolding

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Probabilistic Metric Learning

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Laplacian-Based Dimensionality Reduction

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Elements of dimensionality reduction and manifold learning

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2023

Recurrent neural networks and long short-term memory networks: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11461, 2023

KKT Conditions

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, A, Karray, F, Crowley, M

First-Order and, 2023

Restricted Boltzmann Machine and Deep Belief Network

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2022

Variational Autoencoders

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2022

Adversarial Autoencoders

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2022

Spectral, probabilistic, and deep metric learning: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.09267, 2022

Theoretical Connection between Locally Linear Embedding, Factor Analysis, and Probabilistic PCA.

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

Canadian AI, 2022

Factor analysis, probabilistic principal component analysis, variational inference, and variational autoencoder: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00734, 2021

Generative locally linear embedding

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01525, 2021

Laplacian-based dimensionality reduction including spectral clustering, Laplacian eigenmap, locality preserving projection, graph embedding, and diffusion map: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02154, 2021

Unified framework for spectral dimensionality reduction, maximum variance unfolding, and kernel learning by semidefinite programming: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15379, 2021

Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma, linear and nonlinear random projections, random Fourier features, and random kitchen sinks: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.04172, 2021

Uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) and its variants: tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.02508, 2021

KKT conditions, first-order and second-order optimization, and distributed optimization: tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01858, 2021

Sufficient dimension reduction for high-dimensional regression and low-dimensional embedding: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09620, 2021

Restricted boltzmann machine and deep belief network: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12521, 2021

Attention mechanism, transformers, BERT, and GPT: tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2020

Stochastic neighbor embedding with Gaussian and student-t distributions: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.10301, 2020

Locally linear embedding and its variants: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10925, 2020

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space, Mercer's Theorem, Eigenfunctions, Nystrom Method, and Use of Kernels in Machine Learning: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08443,

Elements of dimensionality reduction and manifold learning

Ghojogh, Benyamin and Crowley, Mark and Karray, Fakhri and Ghodsi, Ali

Springer

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Orchid: Flexible and Data-Dependent Convolution for Sequence Modeling

Karami, Mahdi, Ghodsi, Ali

NeurIPS, 2024

GraphPI: Efficient Protein Inference with Graph Neural Networks

Ma, Zheng, Chen, Jiazhen, Xin, Lei, Ghodsi, Ali

Journal of Proteome Research, 2024

Qdylora: Quantized dynamic low-rank adaptation for efficient large language model tuning

Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Valipour, Mojtaba, Zhu, Tianshu, Tahaei, Marzieh, Kwon, Hyock Ju, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

emnlp-industry, 2024

Scalable Graph Self-Supervised Learning

Pasand, Ali Saheb, Moravej, Reza, Biparva, Mahdi, Karimi, Raika, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09603, 2024

WERank: Towards Rank Degradation Prevention for Self-Supervised Learning Using Weight Regularization

Pasand, Ali Saheb, Moravej, Reza, Biparva, Mahdi, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.09586, 2024

Sorted LLaMA: Unlocking the Potential of Intermediate Layers of Large Language Models for Dynamic Inference

Kavehzadeh, Parsa, Valipour, Mojtaba, Tahaei, Marzieh, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL, 2024

Learning Chemotherapy Drug Action via Universal Physics-Informed Neural Networks

Podina, Lena, Ghodsi, Ali, Kohandel, Mohammad

arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.08019, 2024

Efficient Citer: Tuning Large Language Models for Enhanced Answer Quality and Verification

Tahaei, Marzieh, Jafari, Aref, Rashid, Ahmad, Alfonso-Hermelo, David, Bibi, Khalil, Wu, Yimeng, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL, 2024

S2D: Sorted Speculative Decoding For More Efficient Deployment of Nested Large Language Models

Kavehzadeh, Parsa, Pourreza, Mohammadreza, Valipour, Mojtaba, Zhu, Tinashu, Bai, Haoli, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01955, 2024

Graph Neural Network, ChebNet, Graph Convolutional Network, and Graph Autoencoder: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Diffusion Models: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Reinforcement Learning: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Backpropagation and optimization in deep learning: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

PAC Learnability and Information Bottleneck in Deep Learning: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Echoatt: Attend, copy, then adjust for more efficient large language models

Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Jafari, Aref, Sharma, Aman, Jami, Benyamin, Kwon, Hyock Ju, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP-IV) workshop, 2024

Maximum Mean Discrepancy and Generative Moment Matching Networks: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Neural Network Compression and Knowledge Distillation: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2024

Elements of dimensionality reduction and manifold learning

Ghojogh, Benyamin and Crowley, Mark and Karray, Fakhri and Ghodsi, Ali

Springer

Multidimensional Scaling, Sammon Mapping, and Isomap

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Systems and methods for de novo peptide sequencing using deep learning and spectrum pairs

Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Lei, XIN, Chen, Xin, Baozhen, SHAN, Ghodsi, Ali, Li, Ming

, 2023

Random Projection

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Background on Kernels

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Fisher Discriminant Analysis

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Kernel Dimension Reduction

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Factor analysis and probabilistic principal component analysis

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Do we need Label Regularization to Fine-tune Pre-trained Language Model

Kobyzev, Ivan, Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Li, Tianda, Do-Omri, Alan, Lu, Peng, Ghodsi, Ali, Poupart, Pascal

Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023

Locally linear embedding

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Stochastic neighbour embedding

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Principal component analysis

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP)

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Deep metric learning

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Unified Spectral Framework and Maximum Variance Unfolding

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Probabilistic Metric Learning

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Laplacian-Based Dimensionality Reduction

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2023

Elements of dimensionality reduction and manifold learning

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2023

Recurrent neural networks and long short-term memory networks: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.11461, 2023

Sortednet, a place for every network and every network in its place: Towards a generalized solution for training many-in-one neural networks

Valipour, Mojtaba, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Tahaei, Marzieh, Chen, Boxing, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00255, 2023

Sorted LLaMA: Unlocking the Potential of Intermediate Layers of Large Language Models for Dynamic Inference Using Sorted Fine-Tuning (SoFT)

Kavehzadeh, Parsa, Valipour, Mojtaba, Tahaei, Marzieh, Ghodsi, Ali, Chen, Boxing, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.08968, 2023

KKT Conditions

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, A, Karray, F, Crowley, M

First-Order and, 2023

Restricted Boltzmann Machine and Deep Belief Network

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2022

Variational Autoencoders

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2022

Adversarial Autoencoders

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Crowley, Mark, Karray, Fakhri, Ghodsi, Ali

Elements of Dimensionality Reduction and Manifold Learning, 2022

Spectral, probabilistic, and deep metric learning: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.09267, 2022

When chosen wisely, more data is what you need: A universal sample-efficient strategy for data augmentation

Kamalloo, Ehsan, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.09391, 2022

Theoretical Connection between Locally Linear Embedding, Factor Analysis, and Probabilistic PCA.

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

Canadian AI, 2022

KroneckerBERT: Significant compression of pre-trained language models through kronecker decomposition and knowledge distillation

Tahaei, Marzieh, Charlaix, Ella, Nia, Vahid, Ghodsi, Ali, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2022

Dylora: Parameter efficient tuning of pre-trained models using dynamic search-free low-rank adaptation

Valipour, Mojtaba, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Kobyzev, Ivan, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07558, 2022

Continuation kd: Improved knowledge distillation through the lens of continuation optimization

Jafari, Aref, Kobyzev, Ivan, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Poupart, Pascal, Ghodsi, Ali

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

A new approach to the numerical solution of Fredholm integral equations using least squares-support vector regression

Parand, K, Aghaei, Alireza Afzal, Jani, Mostafa, Ghodsi, Ali

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2021

Supervised discriminative dimensionality reduction by learning multiple transformation operators

Rajabzadeh, Hossein, Jahromi, Mansoor Zolghadri, Ghodsi, Ali

Expert Systems with Applications, 2021

Fine-tuning and training of densenet for histopathology image representation using tcga diagnostic slides

Riasatian, Abtin, Babaie, Morteza, Maleki, Danial, Kalra, Shivam, Valipour, Mojtaba, Hemati, Sobhan, Zaveri, Manit, Safarpoor, Amir, Shafiei, Sobhan, Afshari, Mehdi, others

Medical image analysis, 2021

CNN and deep sets for end-to-end whole slide image representation learning

Hemati, Sobhan, Kalra, Shivam, Meaney, Cameron, Babaie, Morteza, Ghodsi, Ali, Tizhoosh, Hamid

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2021

Computationally instrument-resolution-independent de novo peptide sequencing for high-resolution devices

Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Xin, Lei, Chen, Xin, Li, Ming, Shan, Baozhen, Ghodsi, Ali

Nature Machine Intelligence, 2021

Fractional Chebyshev deep neural network (FCDNN) for solving differential models

Hajimohammadi, Zeinab, Baharifard, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali, Parand, Kourosh

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 2021

Knowledge distillation by utilizing backward pass knowledge in neural networks

Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Ghodsi, Ali

Efficient Natural Language and Speech Processing (ENLSP workshop), 2021

Lakehouse: a new generation of open platforms that unify data warehousing and advanced analytics

Armbrust, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Xin, Reynold, Zaharia, Matei

Proceedings of CIDR, 2021

Factor analysis, probabilistic principal component analysis, variational inference, and variational autoencoder: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00734, 2021

Generative locally linear embedding

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01525, 2021

Annealing knowledge distillation

Jafari, Aref, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Sharma, Pranav, Ghodsi, Ali

Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021

Not far away, not so close: Sample efficient nearest neighbour data augmentation via minimax

Kamalloo, Ehsan, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Passban, Peyman, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13608, 2021

Laplacian-based dimensionality reduction including spectral clustering, Laplacian eigenmap, locality preserving projection, graph embedding, and diffusion map: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.02154, 2021

Symbolicgpt: A generative transformer model for symbolic regression

Valipour, Mojtaba, You, Bowen, Panju, Maysum, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.14131, 2021

Unified framework for spectral dimensionality reduction, maximum variance unfolding, and kernel learning by semidefinite programming: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15379, 2021

Legendre Deep Neural Network (LDNN) and its application for approximation of nonlinear Volterra Fredholm Hammerstein integral equations

Hajimohammadi, Zeinab, Parand, Kourosh, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.14320, 2021

Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma, linear and nonlinear random projections, random Fourier features, and random kitchen sinks: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.04172, 2021

Uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) and its variants: tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.02508, 2021

How to select one among all? an extensive empirical study towards the robustness of knowledge distillation in natural language understanding

Li, Tianda, Rashid, Ahmad, Jafari, Aref, Sharma, Pranav, Ghodsi, Ali, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 2021

Kroneckerbert: Learning kronecker decomposition for pre-trained language models via knowledge distillation

Tahaei, Marzieh S, Charlaix, Ella, Nia, Vahid Partovi, Ghodsi, Ali, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.06243, 2021

Knowledge Distillation with Noisy Labels for Natural Language Understanding

Bhardwaj, Shivendra, Ghaddar, Abbas, Rashid, Ahmad, Bibi, Khalil, Li, Chengyang, Ghodsi, Ali, Langlais, Philippe, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.10147, 2021

KKT conditions, first-order and second-order optimization, and distributed optimization: tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01858, 2021

Sufficient dimension reduction for high-dimensional regression and low-dimensional embedding: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.09620, 2021

Pro-KD: Progressive distillation by following the footsteps of the teacher

Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Jafari, Aref, Salad, Puneeth, Sharma, Pranav, Pasand, Ali Saheb, Ghodsi, Ali

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 2022, 2021

Universal-KD: Attention-based output-grounded intermediate layer knowledge distillation

Wu, Yimeng, Rezagholizadeh, Mehdi, Ghaddar, Abbas, Haidar, Md Akmal, Ghodsi, Ali

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021

Restricted boltzmann machine and deep belief network: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12521, 2021

Discriminant component analysis via distance correlation maximization

Abdi, Lida, Ghodsi, Ali

Pattern Recognition, 2020

Attention mechanism, transformers, BERT, and GPT: tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2020

Stochastic neighbor embedding with Gaussian and student-t distributions: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.10301, 2020

A neuro-symbolic method for solving differential and functional equations

Panju, Maysum, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02415, 2020

Symbolically solving partial differential equations using deep learning

Panju, Maysum, Parand, Kourosh, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06673, 2020

Locally linear embedding and its variants: Tutorial and survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.10925, 2020

Sentiment analysis based on improved pre-trained word embeddings

Rezaeinia, Seyed Mahdi, Rahmani, Rouhollah, Ghodsi, Ali, Veisi, Hadi

Expert Systems with Applications, 2019

Deep learning enables de novo peptide sequencing from data-independent-acquisition mass spectrometry

Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Qiao, Rui, Xin, Lei, Chen, Xin, Liu, Chuyi, Zhang, Xianglilan, Shan, Baozhen, Ghodsi, Ali, Li, Ming

Nature methods, 2019

Deepnovov2: Better de novo peptide sequencing with deep learning

Qiao, Rui, Tran, Ngoc Hieu, Xin, Lei, Shan, Baozhen, Li, Ming, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.08514, 2019

Fully Convolutional Networks in Localization and Classification of Cell Nuclei

Bidart, Rene, Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Peikari, Mohammad, Salama, Sherine, Nofech-Mozes, Sharon, Nofech, Sharon, Martel, Anne L, Ghodsi, Ali

, 2019

Robust locally-linear controllable embedding

Banijamali, Ershad, Shu, Rui, Bui, Hung, Ghodsi, Ali, others

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2018

Localization and classification of cell nuclei in post-neoadjuvant breast cancer surgical specimen using fully convolutional networks

Bidart, Rene, Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Peikari, Mohammad, Salama, Sherine, Nofech-Mozes, Sharon, Martel, Anne L, Ghodsi, Ali

Medical Imaging 2018: Digital Pathology, 2018

Distance correlation autoencoder

Wang, Rick, Karimi, Amir-Hossein, Ghodsi, Ali

2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018

Nonnegative matrix factorization using autoencoders and exponentiated gradient descent

El Khatib, Alaa, Huang, Shimeng, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri

2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2018

SRP: Efficient class-aware embedding learning for large-scale data via supervised random projections

Karimi, Amir-Hossein, Wong, Alexander, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.03166, 2018

Deep variational sufficient dimensionality reduction

Banijamali, Ershad, Karimi, Amir-Hossein, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.07641, 2018

Advances in projection of climate change impacts using supervised nonlinear dimensionality reduction techniques

Sarhadi, Ali, Burn, Donald H, Yang, Ge, Ghodsi, Ali

Climate dynamics, 2017

Fast and scalable feature selection for gene expression data using hilbert-schmidt independence criterion

Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Zarkoob, Hadi, Ghodsi, Ali

IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics, 2017

Generative mixture of networks

Banijamali, Ershad, Ghodsi, Ali, Popuart, Pascal

2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2017

Fast spectral clustering using autoencoders and landmarks

Banijamali, Ershad, Ghodsi, Ali

International Conference Image Analysis and Recognition, 2017

Sparse supervised principal component analysis (SSPCA) for dimension reduction and variable selection

Sharifzadeh, Sara, Ghodsi, Ali, Clemmensen, Line H, Ersbll, Bjarne K

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2017

Discovery radiomics via a mixture of deep convnet sequencers for multi-parametric MRI prostate cancer classification

Karimi, Amir-Hossein, Chung, Audrey G, Shafiee, Mohammad Javad, Khalvati, Farzad, Haider, Masoom A, Ghodsi, Ali, Wong, Alexander

Image Analysis and Recognition: 14th International Conference, ICIAR 2017, Montreal, QC, Canada, July 5--7, 2017, Proceedings 14, 2017

Synthesizing deep neural network architectures using biological synaptic strength distributions

Karimi, Amir-Hossein, Shafiee, MJ, Ghodsi, Ali, Wong, Alexander

arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.00081, 2017

Ensembles of random projections for nonlinear dimensionality reduction

Karimi, Amir Hossein, Shafiee, Mohammad Javad, Ghodsi, Ali, Wong, Alexander

Journal of Computational Vision and Imaging Systems, 2017

Disentangling dynamics and content for control and planning

Banijamali, Ershad, Khajenezhad, Ahmad, Ghodsi, Ali, Ghavamzadeh, Mohammad

arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.09165, 2017

Jade: Joint autoencoders for dis-entanglement

Banijamali, Ershad, Karimi, Amir-Hossein, Wong, Alexander, Ghodsi, Ali

arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.09163, 2017

Improving the accuracy of pre-trained word embeddings for sentiment analysis

Rezaeinia, Seyed Mahdi, Ghodsi, Ali, Rahmani, Rouhollah

arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08609, 2017

Semi-supervised dictionary learning based on hilbert-schmidt independence criterion

Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Bedawi, Safaa MA, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri

Image Analysis and Recognition: 13th International Conference, ICIAR 2016, in Memory of Mohamed Kamel, Povoa de Varzim, Portugal, July 13-15, 2016, Proceedings 13, 2016

Greedy column subset selection for large-scale data sets

Farahat, Ahmed K, Elgohary, Ahmed, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

Knowledge and Information Systems, 2015

A dimension-independent generalization bound for kernel supervised principal component analysis

Ashtiani, Hassan, Ghodsi, Ali

Feature Extraction: Modern Questions and Challenges, 2015

Supervised dictionary learning and sparse representation-a review

Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Farahat, Ahmed K, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.05928, 2015

Learning the Structure of Sum-Product Networks via an SVD-based Algorithm.

Adel, Tameem, Balduzzi, David, Ghodsi, Ali

UAI, 2015

Minimizing the discrepancy between source and target domains by learning adapting components

Dorri, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali

Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2014

Manifold unfolding by isometric patch alignment with an application in protein structure determination

Tadavani, Pooyan Khajehpour, Alipanahi, Babak, Ghodsi, Ali

Perspectives on Big Data Analysis: Methodologies and Applications, 2014

Efficient greedy feature selection for unsupervised learning

Farahat, Ahmed K, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

Knowledge and information systems, 2013

Kernelized supervised dictionary learning

Gangeh, Mehrdad J, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2013

Distributed column subset selection on mapreduce

Farahat, Ahmed K, Elgohary, Ahmed, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

2013 IEEE 13th International Conference on Data Mining, 2013

Discriminative functional analysis of human movements

Samadani, Ali-Akbar, Ghodsi, Ali, Kulic

Pattern Recognition Letters, 2013

A fast greedy algorithm for generalized column subset selection

Farahat, Ahmed K, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.6820, 2013

Protein structure by semidefinite facial reduction

Alipanahi, Babak, Krislock, Nathan, Ghodsi, Ali, Wolkowicz, Henry, Donaldson, Logan, Li, Ming

Research in Computational Molecular Biology: 16th Annual International Conference, RECOMB 2012, Barcelona, Spain, April 21-24, 2012. Proceedings 16, 2012

Adapting component analysis

Dorri, Fatemeh, Ghodsi, Ali

2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on Data Mining, 2012

Detecting change-points in time series by maximum mean discrepancy of ordinal pattern distributions

Sinn, Mathieu, Ghodsi, Ali, Keller, Karsten

arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.4903, 2012

Supervised principal component analysis: Visualization, classification and regression on subspaces and submanifolds

Barshan, Elnaz, Ghodsi, Ali, Azimifar, Zohreh, Jahromi, Mansoor Zolghadri

Pattern Recognition, 2011

An efficient greedy method for unsupervised feature selection

Farahat, Ahmed K, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed S

2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining, 2011

Guided locally linear embedding

Alipanahi, Babak, Ghodsi, Ali

Pattern recognition letters, 2011

Robust locally linear embedding using penalty functions

Winlaw, Manda, Dehkordy, Leila Samimi, Ghodsi, Ali

The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011

Parameter selection for smoothing splines using Stein's unbiased risk estimator

Seifzadeh, Sepideh, Rostami, Mohammad, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhreddine

The 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011

Rare class classification by support vector machine

He, He, Ghodsi, Ali

2010 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010

Learning an affine transformation for non-linear dimensionality reduction

Tadavani, Pooyan Khajehpour, Ghodsi, Ali

Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: European Conference, ECML PKDD 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 20-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part II 21, 2010

Distance metric learning vs. fisher discriminant analysis

Alipanahi, Babak, Biggs, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, others

Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence, 2008

Nonnegative matrix factorization via rank-one downdate

Biggs, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Vavasis, Stephen

Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Machine learning, 2008

Scalable Action Respecting Embedding.

Biggs, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Wilkinson, Dana F, Bowling, Michael H

ISAIM, 2008

Subjective localization with action respecting embedding

Bowling, Michael, Wilkinson, Dana, Ghodsi, Ali, Milstein, Adam

Robotics Research: Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR, 2007

Nonlinear dimensionality reduction with side information

Ghodsi Boushehri, Ali

, 2006

Subjective mapping

Bowling, Michael, Wilkinson, Dana, Ghodsi, Ali

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2006

Semi-Supervised Representation Learning based on Probabilistic Labeling

, 2006

Dimensionality reduction a short tutorial

Ghodsi, Ali

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Univ. of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2006

Tangent-corrected embedding

Ghodsi, Ali, Huang, Jiayuan, Southey, Finnegan, Schuurmans, Dale

2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05), 2005

Action respecting embedding

Bowling, Michael, Ghodsi, Ali, Wilkinson, Dana

Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Machine learning, 2005

Learning Subjective Representations for Planning.

Wilkinson, Dana F, Bowling, Michael H, Ghodsi, Ali

IJCAI, 2005

Transformation-invariant embedding for image analysis

Ghodsi, Ali, Huang, Jiayuan, Schuurmans, Dale

Computer Vision-ECCV 2004: 8th European Conference on Computer Vision, Prague, Czech Republic, May 11-14, 2004. Proceedings, Part IV 8, 2004

Efficient parameter selection for system identification

Ghodsi, Ali

IEEE Annual Meeting of the Fuzzy Information, 2004. Processing NAFIPS'04., 2004

Automatic basis selection techniques for RBF networks

Ghodsi, Ali, Schuurmans, Dale

Neural Networks, 2003

Regularized greedy importance sampling

Southey, Finnegan, Schuurmans, Dale, Ghodsi, Ali

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2002

A novel greedy algorithm for Nystrom approximation

Farahat, Ahmed, Ghodsi, Ali, Kamel, Mohamed

Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics,

Greedy Nystrom Approximation

Farahat, Ahmed K, Kamel, Mohamed S, Ghodsi, Ali

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Automatic dimensionality selection from the scree plot via the use of profile likelihood

Zhu, Mu, Ghodsi, Ali

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis,

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Kolmogorov complexity vector: A novel data representation

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Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space, Mercer's Theorem, Eigenfunctions, Nystrom Method, and Use of Kernels in Machine Learning: Tutorial and Survey

Ghojogh, Benyamin, Ghodsi, Ali, Karray, Fakhri, Crowley, Mark

arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08443,

Teaching

I will be teaching the following courses in Winter 2025:

  • Deep Learning (STAT 940) - Online
  • Generative AI and Large Language Models (STAT 946)
Previously Taught Courses
Deep Learning
Deep Learning
Supervised Learning
Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning
Deep Learning
Supervised Learning
Unsupervised Learning

Data Science Lab

The Data Science Lab, directed by Ali Ghodsi, focuses on advancing the theoretical foundations and developing innovative algorithms in machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. While our primary emphasis is on designing novel methodologies, our research also explores impactful applications in areas such as natural language processing and bioinformatics.

Current Members
Alumni
  • Babak Alipanahi — Co-founder and CSO @ Exai Bio
  • Tameem Adel — Assistant Professor @ University of Cambridge
  • Pooyan Khajehpour Tadavoni — Software Engineer @ Google
  • Ahmed Farahat — Principal Research Scientist @ Hitachi America
  • Mehrdad Jabarzadeh Gangeh — Principal Imaging Scientist @ Roche
  • Rui Qiao — Applied Scientist @ Amazon
  • Maysum Panju — NLP Scientist @ Adeptmind
  • Ershad Banijamali — Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence @ Amazon
  • Daniel Severn — PhD Graduate
  • Mojtaba Valipour — Founding Engineer @ Coastal Carbon
  • Amir-Hossein Karimi — Assistant Professor @ University of Waterloo
  • Bowen You — Co-founder @ Fairblock
  • Benyamin Jamialahmadi — NLP Research Scientist
  • Maryam Yalsavar — Master’s Graduate
  • Ali Saheb Pasand — Researcher @ Mila/McGill
  • Amirreza Lashkari — AI Researcher @ Amazon
  • Elnaz Barshan — Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Google
  • Jinchao Lin — Software Engineer @ Google
  • Grace Yang — Software Engineer, Machine Learning @ Meta
  • Fatemeh Dorri — Principal Bioinformatics Scientist @ Roche
  • Trevor Sabourin — Family Physician
  • Hadi Zarkoob — Senior Data Scientist @ Genalyte, Inc.
  • Stefan Pintilie — Compiler Optimization Developer @ IBM
  • Maryam Iraniparast — Data Analyst @ University of Waterloo
  • Prospective Students

    Our lab welcomes exceptional and motivated students and visitors at all levels (bachelor's, master's, doctoral, postdoctoral) who are passionate about advancing the fields of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and bioinformatics. If you have a strong background in machine learning, computer science, statistics, or related disciplines and wish to apply to the Computational Mathematics (CM) Master's Program, PhD in Statistics, or PhD in Computer Science, please

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    Note on Master's Programs

    Our lab does not currently accept Master’s students in the Computer Science program. However, students are strongly encouraged to consider the Computational Mathematics (CM) Master's Program. This one-year, funded, research-based program is designed to provide a strong foundation in cutting-edge research, preparing students for advanced academic or industry roles. An optional extension with two co-op terms is also available, offering valuable practical experience.

    For the Statistics Master’s program, admission begins with the course-based option. After enrollment, students may have the opportunity to transition to a thesis-based program with a supervisor.