About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, where I am being advised by Dr. Anuj Karpatne. I completed my undergradute in Computer Science and Engineering from Department of CSE, BUET, Bangladesh.

My research interests are in the broad domains of Science-Guided Machine Learning and its applications, focusing on integrating domain knowledge into machine learning models to obtain generalized solutions consistent with scientific knowledge. In particular, I am developing new algorithms for Graphs (Graph Neural Networks) that allow better representation with coherent knowledge propagation—applications of my work range from drug-drug interaction prediction to ontology-infused fish trait segmentation.

Education

• Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech   (August 2018 - Present)
  Ph.D. Student

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh     
  BS, Computer Science

Selected Publications

• Maximizing Cohesion and Separation in Graph Representation Learning: A Distance-aware Negative Sampling Approach
  M. Maruf, and Anuj Karpatne
  In SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2021.
  [PDF] [CODE]

• Physics-Informed Discriminator (PID) for Conditional Generative Adversarial Nets
  Arka Daw, M. Maruf, and Anuj Karpatne
  In NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences, 2020.
  [PDF] [CODE]

• Biology-Guided Neural Network for Fish Trait Discovery
  M. Maruf, and Anuj Karpatne
  In SICB Virtual Annual Meeting, 2021.
  [Abstract] [CODE]

• iRSpot-SF: Prediction of recombination hotspots by incorporating sequence based features into Pseudo components
  M. Maruf, and Swakkhar Shatabda
  In Genomics, Volume 111, Issue 4, July 2019, Pages 966-972.
  [PDF] [CODE]

Honors and Awards

• Recipient of Student Travel Awards at SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) 2021, SICB Annual Meeting 2021.

• Recipient of University Merit scholarship and four consecutive Dean's Awards at BUET, Bangladesh.

Work Experience

• Virginia Tech
  Graduate Research Assistant
  Advisor : Anuj Karpatne
  Summer 2019 - Present

• Virginia Tech
  Graduate Teaching Assistant
  Fall 2018 - Spring 2019