Speaker - Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering - Purdue University

I am an assistant professor in computer science at Appalachian State University (ASU). My research interests include classical/quantum causal inference and probabilistic graphical models for decision making under uncertainty. My research seeks to develop theoretically sound, reliable, and scalable Causal AI/ML approaches with applications in computer systems and healthcare.

Before joining ASU, I was a postdoctoral scholar at the Electrodynamics Lab and CLAN Lab at Purdue University, where I investigated the development of novel algorithmic and theoretically principled methods for Quantum Entropic Causal Inference. Before this position, I was a research associate at the AISys Lab at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of South Carolina, where I conducted research projects on transfer learning and performance debugging in machine learning systems using the causal inference methods. I received my PhD in Computer Science from the University of South Carolina in 2019, MS in Computer Science from the Sharif University of Technology in 2013, MS in Mathematics from the Shiraz University in 2007, and BS degree in Mathematics from the Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman in 2003.