Amirali Aghazadeh

Georgia Tech

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Coda S1209

Tech Square

Atlanta, GA 30308

I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where I am a program faculty of Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, and Bioengineering PhD programs. I also have affiliations with the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEAS) and the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience. Before joining Georgia Tech, I was a postdoc at Stanford and UC Berkeley, and I did my PhD at Rice University.

I am interested in Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Deep Learning, and Computational Biology. My research goal is to advance how machines can learn, predict, and adapt at scale to solve problems in and inspired by emerging technologies and sciences, from biology to chemistry and physics. We draw from and contribute to core areas in math, stat, and computer sciences such as optimization, harmonic analysis, hashing/sketching/streaming, and high-dimensional statistics. Our current research focuses are:

  • ML/AI for Science: generative & geometric modeling for sciences
  • Core ML/AI: explainability & robustness in combinatorial spaces
  • Scalable ML/AI: learning and inference in massive scales

I pronounce my first name /æmi:r’æli:/ and last name /ægə’zɑdɛ/.

Watch my talk on Sparsity, Epistasis, and Models of Fitness Functions at Broad Institute: Models, Inference and Algorithm (MIA)

news

May 02, 2025 Check out the story of our work on developing AI Scientists for hypothesis generation about Origins of Life in journal Nature. Many thanks to Celest Biever for covering this!
Apr 25, 2025 Tom gave a presenation on mutant effect prediction with AI in EYE CONNECT AI Learning at Emory. Also congrats on passing the qualification exams!
Mar 12, 2025 I am giving a talk at APS on Explaining High-order Interactions in Protein Language Models
Mar 10, 2025 Huge congrats to Daniel Saeedi for his work being accepted for an oral presentation in ICLR 2025 Workshop on Towards Agentic AI for Science: Hypothesis Generation, Comprehension, Quantification, and Validation. Stay tuned for the preprint!
Feb 13, 2025 I am giving a talk at ITA on Scaling Explainability: Fast Algorithms to Decode Ever-Growing ML Models

selected publications

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    AstroAgents: A Multi-Agent AI for Hypothesis Generation from Mass Spectrometry Data
    Daniel Saeedi, Denise Buckner, Jose Aponte, and 1 more author
    International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR) Workshop on Towards Agentic AI for Science: Hypothesis Generation, Comprehension, Quantification, and Validation, 2025
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    Efficient Algorithm for Sparse Fourier Transform of Generalized q-ary Functions
    Darin Tsui, Kunal Talreja, and Amirali Aghazadeh
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.12365, 2025
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    SHAP zero Explains Genomic Models with Near-zero Marginal Cost for Future Queried Sequences
    Darin Tsui, Aryan Musharaf, Yigit Efe Erginbas, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19236, 2024