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/.

Applicants: If you have a solid foundation in mathemathics and statistics, are proficient in programming, and have a keen interest in AI Foundations for Science, please send your CV to me via email. Include 1-2 sentences explaining your interest in joining our group. We are always looking for new members in our group.

For PhD applicants in Machine Learning: To work with me, please apply to the ML PhD program under the School of ECE. You will be able to work me if you have a different home school (CS, CSE, etc.).

For PhD applicants in Bioengineering: To work with me, please apply to the Bioengineering program under the School of ECE. You will be able to work me if you have a different home school (BME, CHBE, etc.).

For PhD applicants in Bioinformatics: You will be able to work with me regardless of your home school (CSE, BME, etc.).

news

Jul 22, 2024 We are pleased to receive the IBB Interdisciplinary Research Seed Grant Program. We will work with Dr. Raquel Lieberman on developing new AI models to understand the role of protein mutations.
Jul 15, 2024 Excited to be part of the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute (SEI) and the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems (BBISS) seed grant on Climate Solutions in the Most Biodiverse Regions on Earth, lead by Benjamin Freeman.
May 13, 2024 It was a pleasure being on the panel at the ICLR GEMBio workshop discussing about AI and proteins.
Apr 04, 2024 Huge congrats to Darin Tsui for receiving the NSF GRFP!
Mar 04, 2024 Our new paper on recovering high-order interactions from protein language models is accepted to the ICLR Workshop on Generative and Experimental perspectives in bioMolecular design (GEM).

selected publications

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    SHAP zero Explains All-order Feature Interactions in Black-box Genomic Models with Near-zero Query Cost
    Darin Tsui, Aryan Musharaf, and Amirali Aghazadeh
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.19236, 2024
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    Epistatic Net allows the sparse spectral regularization of deep neural networks for inferring fitness functions
    Amirali Aghazadeh, Hunter Nisonoff, Orhan Ocal, and 5 more authors
    Nature Communications, 2021
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    Large dataset enables prediction of repair after CRISPR–Cas9 editing in primary T cells
    Ryan T Leenay, Amirali Aghazadeh, Joseph Hiatt, and 8 more authors
    Nature Biotechnology, 2019
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