Irfan Al-Hussaini

Irfan Al-Hussaini

Senior Data Scientist

NVIDIA

I have joined NVIDIA as a Sr. Data Scientist.

I completed my PhD at Georgia Tech advised by Prof. Cassie Mitchell focusing on interpretable machine learning for healthcare using domain knowledge. My work has been presented at machine learning, information retrieval, data mining, and natural language processing conferences such as SIGIR, ICASSP, BioNLP ACL, TS4H NeurIPS, CIKM, BigData, and MLHC. My dissertation encompassed the following:

  • Document filtering, summarization, and entity recognition for synthesis of domain knowledge
  • Optimizing features derived from domain knowledge to pair with glass-box models
  • Domain knowledge distillation for the interpretation of deep neural networks

Previously, I worked on unsupervised learning during my internship at NVIDIA. I also contributed to the development of contact tracing graphs for COVID-19 during a summer internship at National Security Innovation Network, Department of Defense, and worked on a time-sensitive ethernet network project at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

I was advised by Prof. Jimeng Sun for my MS thesis on interpretable machine learning for a clinical decision support system. During my undergrad at BUET, I worked on real-time music beat tracking.

I also regularly review for machine learning conferences – NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ICASSP, BioNLP ACL, and MLHC. Besides research, I am very interested in sports, particularly soccer and Arsenal FC.

Interests
  • Interpretability
  • Knowledge Distillation
  • Representation Learning
  • Named Entity Recognition
  • Summarization
Education
  • PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2023

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2020

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2017

    Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
NVIDIA
Senior Data Scientist
Aug 2023 – Present Atlanta, GA (Remote)
 
 
 
 
 
Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Research Assistant
Aug 2020 – Aug 2023 Atlanta, GA
 
 
 
 
 
NVIDIA
Data Science Intern
Jan 2022 – May 2022 Atlanta, GA (Remote)
 
 
 
 
 
National Security Innovation Network, Department of Defence
NSIN X-Force Fellow
Jun 2020 – Aug 2020 Atlanta, GA
 
 
 
 
 
Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Aug 2019 – May 2020 Atlanta, GA
 
 
 
 
 
Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Research Assistant
Jan 2019 – Dec 2019 Atlanta, GA
 
 
 
 
 
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Graduate Research Assistant
Feb 2018 – Dec 2018 Atlanta, GA

Publications

(2023). BioSift: A Dataset for Filtering Biomedical Abstracts for Drug Repurposing and Clinical Meta-Analysis. In SIGIR 2023. *Equal contribution.

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(2023). Zero-Shot Information Extraction for Clinical Meta-Analysis using Large Language Models. In BioNLP, ACL 2023.

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(2023). SeizFt: Interpretable Machine Learning for Seizure Detection Using Wearables. In Bioengineering (Invited).

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(2022). CCS Explorer: Relevance Prediction, Extractive Summarization, and Named Entity Recognition from Clinical Cohort Studies. In BigData 2022.

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(2022). SERF: Interpretable Sleep Staging using Embeddings, Rules, and Features. In CIKM 2022 (Travel Award).

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(2019). SLEEPER: interpretable Sleep staging via Prototypes from Expert Rules. In MLHC 2019.

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(2018). Predictive real-time beat tracking from music for embedded application. In MIPR 2018.

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(2017). Object recognition and real-time spoken word recognition using two-fold dynamic time warping for autonomous arm manipulator. In IEEE ICSIPA 2017.

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