Teaching

To the perspective students:

I always look for working with and financially support highly motivated, hard working, and well qualified students who have a genuine interest in Trustworthy Machine Learning Research and Applications. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me by email, together with resume and transcripts.

According to CSRankings.org, Wayne State University AI Related Programs (AI, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, The Web & information retrieval) Ranked 84th Nationally (2015-2025).

Current Students:

Ujunwa Mgboh (CS Ph.D. candidate)
Rafi Ibn Sultan (CS Ph.D. candidate)
Xiangyu Zhou (CS Ph.D. candidate)
Mohammad Amin Roshani (CS Ph.D. candidate)
Hui Zhu (CS Ph.D. candidate)
Saleh Zare Zade (CS Ph.D. candidate)
Yiannos Demetrious (M.D./Ph.D. candidate)
Hao Liu (CS Ph.D. pre-candidate)
Harrison Lavins (CS Master thesis student)

Former Students:

Supriya TS. Kumar (M.S. 2025) Data Scientist @ General Motor
Qiang Yao (Ph.D. 2024) Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) @ Oakland University
Chengyin Li (Ph.D. 2024), Research Scientist @ Henry Ford Health
Xin Li (Ph.D. 2022) Research Scientist II @ Bosch AI PhD Dissertation
Deng Pan (Ph.D. 2022) Algorithm Engineer @ Alibaba Group PhD Dissertation
Xiangrui Li (Ph.D. 2020) Senior Algorithm Engineer @ ByteDance PhD Dissertation
Xue (Victor) Zhang (M.S. 2020) Senior Data Engineer @ Quicken Loan
Milad Z. Nezhad (Ph.D. 2020) Lead Data Scientist @ Ford Motor Company
Najibe Sadati (M.S., 2020) Data Scientist @ Ford Motor Company
Lu Wang (Ph.D. 2019) Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) @ University of Houston
Jingwei Zhang (M.S. 2017) Senior Software Engineer @ Genzeon Corporation
Narjes S. Movahedi (Ph.D. 2015) Senior Software Engineer @ MathWorks
Thair Judeh (Ph.D. 2014) Senior Bioinformatics Engineer @ Progenity
Nan Deng (Ph.D. 2014) Senior Scientist @ Roche
Kristen Johnson (M.S. 2012) Assistant Professor @ Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University
Lipi R. Acharya (Ph.D. 2011) Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Booz Allen Hamilton
Guorong Xu (M.S. 2011) Software Engineer @ UCSD
Patrick Trahan (M.S. 2009) Computer Service @ Ochsner Health System
Sichu Li (M.S. 2009) Technical Staff @ MITRE Corporation

Classroom Teaching

CSC 8800 Seminar in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Winter 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
CSC 8860 Seminar Topics in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Fall 2017
CSC 7825 Machine Learning. Fall 2014, 2015, 2016, Winter 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
CSC 6580 Design and Analysis of Algorithms. Winter 2015, 2016, 2017
CSC 5825 Intro. to Machine Learning and Applications. Winter 2017, Fall 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
CSC 5991 Special Topics in Comp. Sci. Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Winter 2014, 2015, 2016
CSC 2110 Comp. Sci. I (C++ Programming). Fall 2011, Winter 2012, 2013, 2014

Synergistic Activities

National Science Foudation Panelist, 2009(2), 2011, 2013, 2014 (mail reviewer), 2015, 2017, 2020, 2024 (X3), 2025.
National Institute of Health ACE Study Section, 2009-2011, multiple special emphasis panels 2011-2025.
Associate Editor: BMC Genomics
Associate Editor: Frontiers in Genetics
Academic Editor: PLoS ONE
Associate Editor (Bioinformatics): Science China - Life Sciences
Associate Editor: Smart Health Journal
Editorial Board Member: Scientific Reports
Editorial Board Member: International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design
Guest Editor: IEEE/ACM transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB); BMC Bioinformatics.
Area Chair/Senior Program Committee/Program Committee: NuerIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, AAAI, IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, AMIA, MICCAI
Program/Session/Workshop chair: AdvML@ICML-22/23/24, ACM-BCB'15, ICIBM'14, IEEE-ICMLA'14, ACM-BIOKDD'14, ICIBM'13, ACM-BCB'14, ACM-BCB'13, ACM-BCB'12, IEEE-BIBM'13, IEEE-BIBM'12, ICIBM'12, IEEE-BIBM'11, ENAR’07.
Journal reviewer: Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Biology, Genome Medicine, BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology, Biometrics, Statistics in Medicine, PLoS Genetics, PLoS ONE, Biology Direct, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Neural Computing, IEEE transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS), Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Neural Network and Learning Systems, Image Processing, Sustainable Computing (TSUSC), Computers (TC), Medical Imaging (TMI), Artificial Intelligence (TAI), IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Physics Review.