Machine Learning Laboratory

RESEARCH TEAM

Director

• Hoda Eldardiry

Student Advisees

PhD

• Vasanth Reddy Baddam (Expected Graduation December 2024)
• Afrina Tabassum (Prelim Completed 2023)
• Ming Cheng (Qualifier Completed 2024)
• Jiazhen Hu (Joined 2024)

MS

• Gurkirat Singh (Expected Graduation December 2024)
• James Weichert (Expected Graduation May 2025)
• Adam Lahouar (Expected Graduation December 2025)
• Ahmed Aredah (Joined 2023)
• Wang Wei (Joined 2024)

Undergraduate

• Sami Kunaish (Joined 2024)
• Rayan Bouhal (Joined 2024)
• Muhammet Isa Bagci (Joined 2024)

Alumni

PhD

• Hongjie Chen (2024) Now Machine Learning Research Scientist @ Dolby
• Jiaying Gong (2024) Now Machine Learning Research Scientist @ EBAY

MS

• Humaid Desai (2023) Now Software Engineer @ Ellucian
• Vasanth Reddy Baddam (2022) Now PhD Student @ our machine learning lab
• Afrina Tabassum (2022) Now PhD Student @ our machine learning lab
• Chenhan Yuan (2021) Now PhD Student @ University of Manchester
• Milad Afzalan (2020) Now AI Researcher @ Schneider Electric

Undergraduate

• Yaseen Ahmed (2023) International Student Exchange
• Ahmed Hassan Fathi (2023) International Student Exchange
• Yuan Chen (BS 2021) Now MS Student @ Rice University
• Joshua Matthew (2020) Undergraduate researcher
• Tran Chau (2019-2020) Undergraduate researcher
• Mia Taylor (2020) Undergraduate researcher

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Fellowships

• Jiaying received the 2023 Pratt Excellence Fellowship!
• Jiaying received the 2022 Pratt Excellence Fellowship!

Journal Publications

2024

• Chenhan @ IEEE Transactions on Big Data
  A Reinforcement Learning Framework for N-ary Document-Level Relation Extraction
  C. Yuan, R. Rossi, A. Katz, and H. Eldardiry
  Impact Factor 7.2

• Hongjie @ ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
  Graph Time-Series Modeling in Deep Learning: A Survey
  H. Chen and H. Eldardiry
  Impact Factor 5.3

• Vasanth @ Systems and Control Letters
  Learning-based Optimal Control of Linear Time-Varying Systems over Large Time Intervals
  V. Reddy, A. Boker, and H. Eldardiry
  Impact Factor 2.6
  Acceptance Rate 25%

• Saeed & Vasanth @ IEEE Control Systems Letters
  Learning-based Pareto Optimal Control of Large-Scale Systems with Unknown Slow Dynamics
  S. Hesarkuchak, A. Boker, V. Reddy, L. Mili, and H. Eldardiry
  Impact Factor 3.1

2023

• Hongjie @ ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)
  Graph Deep Factors for Probabilistic Time-Series Forecasting
  H. Chen, R. A. Rossi, K. Mahadik, S. Kim, and H. Eldardiry
  Impact Factor 5

• Vishvendra & Vasanth @ IEEE Control Systems Letters
  Efficient Near-Optimal Control of Large-Size Second-Order Linear Time-Varying Systems
  V. Rustagi, V. Reddy, A. Boker, C. Sultan, and H. Eldardiry
  Impact Factor 3

2021

• Milad @ IEEE Access
  Two-Stage Clustering of Household Electricity Load Shapes for Improved Temporal Pattern Representation
  Code, Data, Presentation
  M. Afzalan, F. Jazizadeh, and H. Eldardiry
  Impact Factor 3.9

Conference Publications

2024

• Jiaying @ ACL International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (COLING-LREC)
  Prompt-based Zero-Shot Relation Extraction with Semantic Knowledge Augmentation
  Code, Data
  J. Gong and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 28%

• Jiaying @ ACM International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
  Multilabel Zero-Shot Product Attribute-Value Extraction
  Code, Data
  J. Gong and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 20.2%

• Hongjie @ ACM Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD)
  Evolving Super Graph Neural Networks for Large-scale Time-Series Forecasting
  H. Chen, R. A. Rossi, K. Mahadik, S. Kim, and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 15-30%

• Jiaying @ ACL International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (COLING-LREC)
  Multimodal Few-Shot Relation Extraction with Hybrid Visual Evidence
  Code, Data J. Gong and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 28%

• Vasanth @ IEEE American Control Conference
  Searching for Sparse Controllers with a Budget: A Bottom-Up Approach
  V. Reddy, S. Gumussoy, H. Eldardiry, and A. Boker

• Vishvendra & Vasanth @ IEEE American Control Conference
  Efficient Near-Optimal Control of Large-size Second-Order Linear Time-Varying Systems
  Presentation
  V. Rustagi, V. Reddy, A. Boker, C. Sultan, and H. Eldardiry

• Humaid @ International Conference on Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications
  Resource-Efficient Federated Training Framework for Heterogeneous and Resource-Constrained Environments
  H. Desai, A. Hilal, and H. Eldardiry

• James @ IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society
  Computer Science Student Attitudes Towards AI Ethics and Policy: A Preliminary Investigation
  J. Weichert, and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 45%

• Saeed & Vasanth @ IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control
  Learning-based Pareto Optimal Control of Large-Scale Systems with Unknown Slow Dynamics
  S. Hesarkuchak, A. Boker, V. Reddy, L. Mili, and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 56.7%

2023

• Hongjie @ IEEE International Conference on Big Data
  Hypergraph Neural Networks for Time-series Forecasting
  H. Chen, R. A. Rossi, K. Mahadik, S. Kim, H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 17.4%

• Jiaying @ ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
  Knowledge-Enhanced Multilabel Few-Shot Product Attribute-Value Extraction
  Code, Data
  J. Gong, W. T. Chen, and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 24%

• Mohanad & Jiaying @ IEEE Internation EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering
  Prediction of Electric Fields Induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Brain using a Deep Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Network
  M. Tashli, M. Alam, J. Gong, C. Lewis, C. Peterson, H. Eldardiry, J. Atulasimha, and R. Hadimani
  Acceptance Rate 24%

• Yazan & Vasanth @ IEEE European Control Conference
  Near-Optimal Trajectory Generation for Flexible Motion Systems using Two-Boundary Approach
  Y. Al-Rawashdeh, V. Reddy, M. Al Saaideh, A. Boker, H. Eldardiry, and M. Al Janaideh

• Mohanad & Jiaying @ American Physical Society
  Prediction of Electric Fields Induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Brain using a Deep Encoder-Decoder Convolutional Neural Network
  M. Tashli, M. Alam, J. Gong, C. Lewis, C. Peterson, H. Eldardiry, J. Atulasimha, R. Hadimani

2022

• Chenhan @ IEEE International Conference on Big Data
  Clustering-based Unsupervised Generative Relation Extraction
  C. Yuan, R. A. Rossi, A. Katz, and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 19.2%

• Vasanth @ IEEE Automatic Control Conference
  Singular Perturbation-based Reinforcement Learning of Two-Point Boundary Optimal Control Systems
  Code, Presentation, Poster
  V. Reddy, H. Eldardiry, and A. Boker
  Acceptance Rate 59.6%

• Vasanth @ AAAI Reinforcement Learning in Games Workshop
  Cooperation Learning in Time-Varying Multiagent Networks
  Code, Presentation, Poster
  V. Reddy, A. Boker, and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 15%

• Mohanad & Jiaying @ Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
  Prediction of Stimulation Strength of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Brain with Deep Convolutional Neural Network based Encoder-Decoder Network
  M. Alam, M. Tashli, J. Gong, C. Lewis , C. Peterson, H. Eldardiry, R. Hadimani, J. Atulasimha

2021

• Chenhan @ Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
  Unsupervised Relation Extraction: a Variational Autoencoder Approach
  C. Yuan and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 32%

• Hongjie @ IEEE International Conference on Big Data
  Context Integrated Relational Spatio-Temporal Resource Forecasting
  Code, Data
  H. Chen, R. A. Rossi, K. Mahadik, and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 19.9%

• Hongjie @ ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD)
  Graph Deep Factors for Forecasting with Applications to Cloud Resource Allocation
  H. Chen, R. A. Rossi, K. Mahadik, S. Kim, and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 15.4%

• Jiaying @ ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
  Zero-Shot Relation Classification from Side Information
  Code, Data, Presentation
  J. Gong and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 21.7%

• Jiaying @ ACM International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP)
  Multistage Hybrid Attentive Networks for Knowledge-Driven Stock Movement Prediction
  Code, Data, Presentation
  J. Gong and H. Eldardiry
  Acceptance Rate 20.9%

• Jiaying @ International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks
  Predicting Stock Price Movement Using Financial News Sentiment.
  J. Gong, B. Paye, G. Kadlec, and H. Eldardiry

Preprints

2023

• Chenhan
  GradXKG: A Universal Explain-per-use Temporal Knowledge Graph Explainer
  C. Yuan and H. Eldardiry

• Vasanth
  Data-Driven Near-Optimal Control of Nonlinear Systems over Finite Horizon
  V. Reddy, H. Eldardiry, and A. Boker

2022

• Afrina
  Hard Negative Sampling Strategies for Contrastive Representation Learning
  A. Tabassum, M. Wahed, H. Eldardiry, and I. Lourentzou

PhD Dissertations

• Dr. Jiaying Gong @ Spring 2024
  Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Learning for Information Extraction

• Dr. Hongjie Chen @ Spring 2024
  Deep Graph Learning based Relational Modeling for Time-series Forecasting

MS Theses

• Humaid @ Fall 2023
  Resource-Efficient Federated Training Framework for Heterogeneous and Resource-Constrained Environments

• Vasanth @ Fall 2022
  Learning-based Optimal Control of Time-Varying Linear Systems Over Large Time Intervals

• Chenhan @ Spring 2021
  N-ary Cross-sentence Relation Extraction: From Supervised to Unsupervised Learning

• Milad @ Summer 2020
  Building Energy Profile Clustering Based on Energy Consumption Patterns

PhD Proposals

• Vasanth @ Fall 2023
  Towards Data-Driven Optimal Control of Multiscale Systems

• Afrina@ Spring 2023
  Multimodal Learning: Representation and Generation

Research Presentations

• Hongjie @ Amazon-VT Initiative for Efficient & Robust ML
  GNN-based Relational Modeling for Time-seires Forecasting, April 2023
• Jiaying @ Commonwealth Cybersecurity Initiative (CCI) Showcase
  Prediction of Electric Fields Induced by Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in the Brain, June 2022

Internships

Summer 2024

• Vasanth @ Honda Research
• Afrina @ Amazon
• Gurki @ Citi
• Rayan @ Honeywell
• Ahmed @ Moffatt & Nichol

Summer 2023

• Afrina @ Microsoft Research
• Hongjie @ Yahoo Research
• Jiaying @ Ebay
• Ahmed @ Leidos
• Humaid @ Ellucian

Summer 2022

• Afrina @ Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Jiaying @ Rakuten

Summer 2021

• Vasanth @ Siemens

Summer 2020

• Vasanth @ Informatics Corp
• Hongjie @ Adobe Research
• Afrina @ University of Virginia Biocomplexity Institute
• Mia @ Amazon Web Services