Presented recent work on Geospatial Foundation Models at the UMFM Workshop; released a preprint about Geospatial Foundation Models on arXiv; vision paper on Spatio-temporal Foundation Models accepted by SIGSPATIAL 25'; successfully passed qualification exam becoming a PhD candidate; released a preprint about Efficient Graph Condensation on arXiv; survey on Graph Reduction accepted by IJCAI 24'.
Research Experience
Currently working on designing novel spatio-temporal foundation models for understanding human mobility using geolocation data at the Spatial Computing Lab, Emory University. Previously, worked on a rotation project with Prof. Li Xiong developing privacy-preserving predictive models for multi-modal temporal EHR data, and under the supervision of Dr. Wei Jin on scalable and explainable graph condensation methods for Graph Neural Networks.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Emory University, (2023 - Present); B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, (2018 - 2023). Advisors: Prof. Andreas Zufle (PhD), Prof. Li Xiong (rotation project), Dr. Wei Jin (Graph Neural Networks).
Background
Research interests include Machine Learning with applications in Spatial Computing, Graph Data Mining, and Computer Vision. Aiming to gain a principled understanding of these methods by exploring their mathematical foundations and real-world implications, translating theoretical insight into practical solutions for real-world challenges.
Miscellany
Actively seeking research internship opportunities for Summer/Spring 2026, particularly interested in contributing to cutting-edge problems in ML.