Soha Hassoun
Scholar

Soha Hassoun

Google Scholar ID: tR5MNfkAAAAJ
Professor & Past Chair. Department of Computer Science, Tufts University
Machine Learning for Systems BiologyElectronic Design Automation
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
875
 
H-index
18
 
i10-index
23
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
30
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • OMG: De Novo molecular generation from spectra via transfer learning and curriculum learning.
  • MADGEN: Generating de novo molecules from partial structures, guided by spectra.
  • A novel paradigm for metabolite annotation: Avoiding explicit construction of spectra and molecules, instead comparing query spectrum against candidates in the embedding space.
  • MassSpecGym: A community effort to standardize the evaluation of mass spec annotation techniques.
  • Ensemble Spectral Prediction (ESP): A pipeline that includes molecular representation learning, spectral prediction with peak co-dependency analysis, and rank-based learning, improving performance by up to 41% over MLPs.
  • Separate normalization of normal and [CLS] tokens in self-supervised transformers, showing a 2.7% performance improvement in image, natural, and graph tasks.
  • Predicting enzyme-substrate interactions using contrastive multiview coding (CMC).
  • Review article on recent advances in computational methods for metabolomics.
Research Experience
  • Current professor at Tufts University, leading the Hassoun Lab, which focuses on developing machine learning and AI models, especially those tailored for biological data.
Education
  • Tufts University
Background
  • Professor of Computer Science (primary), Chemical & Biological Engineering, and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Research interests include machine learning and systems biology, focusing on developing analysis and design tools to advance biotechnology.
Miscellany
  • Contact Info: 177 College Ave, Medford, MA 02155, soha (at) cs.tufts.edu, Follow @sohahassoun