I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at SUNY Albany. My research interests include data mining and machine learning with a focus on human-centered applications, such as recommender systems, educational systems, and online social networks. Check my research for more specific topics.

I received my PhD and Master's in Intelligent Systems Program 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.

We have multiple open positions including a post-doctoral position. If you are interested, take a look at opportunities -- funded open positions.

News:

• 07/2019: Congratulations to Nam! Our paper "Review-Based Cross-Domain Collaborative Filtering: A Neural Framework" has been accepted to ComplexRec 2019
• 05/2019: Awarded, along with Dr. Reza Feyzi Behnagh, for the NSF CyberLearning project "Detecting and Predicting Procrastination in Online and Social Learning" (project link)
• 04/2019: Congratulations to Thanh Nam Doan! His paper"Rank-Based Tensor Factorization for Predicting Student Performance" has been accepted to Educational Data Mining 2019
• 03/2019: Congratulations to Mehrdad Mirzaei! His paper "Annotated Examples and Parameterized Exercises: Analyzing Student's Sequential Patterns" has been accepted to AI in Education 2019
• 10/2018: Glad to be serving as publicity co-chair for RecSys 2019 (RecSys 2019)
• 04/2018: Awarded for the NSF CRII project "Modeling Student Knowledge and Improving Performance when Learning from Multiple Types of Materials" (project link)
• 03/2018: Research Paper "Student Performance Prediction by Discovering Inter-Activity Relations" has been accepted in Educational Data Mining 2018 (link)
• 03/2018: The 2nd Workshop on Intelligent Recommender Systems by Knowledge Transfer and Learning (RecSysKTL) has been accepted in ACM RecSys Conference (RecSysKTL 2018)
• 02/2018: Selected as Fall 2017 FRAP-A Award recipient for research on Cross-Domain Recommender Systems.
• 02/2018: Program Committee member for the 11th ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys), 2018 (RecSys 2018)
• 10/2017: Glad to be serving as student volunteer chair for RecSys 2018 (RecSys 2018)
• 09/2017: Program Committee member for the 8th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2017)
• 08/2017: Program Committee member for the 33rd ACM SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing - RecSys track (ACM SAC 2018)
• 08/2017: Program Committee member for the Web (WWW) conference - User Modeling Personalization and Experience Track (WWW 2018)
• 07/2017: "Cross-domain recommendation for large-scale data" has been accepted to RecSysKTL 2017
• 04/2017: Program Committee member for the 11th ACM Recommender Systems Conference (RecSys), 2017 (RecSys 2017)
• 03/2017: Program Committee member for the 1st Temporal and Holistic User Modeling Workshop (THUM), co-Located with UMAP 2017 (THUM 2017)
• 03/2017: Program Committee member for the 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) (EDM 2017)
• 02/2017: The 1st Workshop on Intelligent Recommender Systems by Knowledge Transfer and Learning (RecSysKTL) has been accepted in ACM RecSys Conference (RecSysKTL 2017)
• 10/2016: Program Committee member for the 8th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2017) (MSM 2017)
• 09/2016: Program Committee member for the 7th International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK 2017)
• 08/2016: Program Committee member for the WWW conference - User Modeling Personalization and Experience Track (WWW 2017)
• 08/2016: Joined the department of computer science at University at Albany, SUNY
• 07/2016: Reviewer for iConference 2017 (iConference 2017)
• 07/2016: Program Committee member for ACM RecSys 2016 Posters (RecSys 2016)