I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at SUNY Albany and founder of the Personalized AI (PersAI) Lab. My research interests include data mining and machine learning with a focus on human-centered applications, such as recommender systems, educational systems, and health applications. Check my research for more specific topics.
I received my PhD and Master’s in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh, my Master’s in Computer Engineering from University of Tehran, and my Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. More details can be found in my CV.
I have multiple open positions in PersAI lab. If you are interested, take a look at opportunities – funded open positions.
News
- 06/2025: Will be attending UMAP in NYC! Hope to see you there!
- 04/2025: Congratulations to Soroush for his paper being accepted at AIED’25. I’ll be in Palermo in July to present our work.
- 04/2025: Had a blast representing our College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering during the ACM New York Celebration of Women in Computing (NYCWIC) in Poughkeepsie!
- 02/2025: Congratulations to Siqian for her paper being accepted at AAAI’25. I’ll be there in Philadelphia to present our work.
- 09/2024: Honored to give a keynote on “Recommender Systems Beyond Commerce: Personalized Learning”, at the Women in RecSys Keynote Series, organized at the Eighteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2024)
- 07/2024: Congratulations to Dr. Siqian Zhao for successfully defending her PhD thesis on “Multi-Activity Student Knowledge and Behavior Modeling via Transfer Learning”! We are so proud of you, Siqian!
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04/2024: Honored to give a keynote speech on “Machine Learning for Human Learning: Complex Data Challenges”, at The Twenty-Eighth Annual Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges Northeastern Conference (CCSCNE 2024)
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