PUBLICATIONS

• R. Jin, H. Valizadegan, H. Li, Ranking Refinement and Its Application to Information Retrieval, To appear in 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008 (acceptance rate: 11%)  [ PDF ] [ PPT ]

• H.D.K. Moonesinghe, H. Valizadegan, S. Fodeh, P.-N. Tan, A Probabilistic Substructure-Based Approach for Graph Classification, In the Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Patras, Greece, October 29-31, 2007 (acceptance rate: 28%)

• H. Valizadegan, P.-N. Tan, Kernel-Based Detection of Mislabeled Training Examples, In the Proceeding of 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 2007), Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 26th-28th, 2007 (acceptance rate: 12%)  [ PDF ]

• H. Valizadegan, P.-N. Tan, A Prototype-Driven Framework for Change Detection in Data Stream Classification, In the Proceeding of 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining (CIDM 2007), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 1st-5th, 2007 [ PDF ]

• H. Valizadegan, R. Jin, Generalized Maximum Margin Clustering and Unsupervised Kernel Learning, In the Proceeding of the 19th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2006), Vancouver, Canada, December, 4th-7th, 2006 (acceptance rate: 24%) [ PDF ] [ PPT ] [MATLAB Codes]

• H. Chen, H. Valizadegan, C. Jackson, S. Soltysiak and A.K. Jain, Fake Hands: Spoofing Hand Geometry Systems, Biometric Consortium 2005, Washington DC, September 2005

• C. Lucas , M. Shafii, A. Gholipour, H. Valizadegan, M. Taheri, The Impact of Space Weather on Satellites and Communications, Space, 1(6), January 2004, 62-72

• H. Valizadegan, Intelligent Space Weather Prediction, Masters Thesis, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Tehran, 2002 (Advisor: Dr. Caro Lucas)

• H. Valizadegan, C. Lucas, Multicriteria Satisficing Neuroprediction, Proceedings of the 4^th Irano-Armenian Workshop on Neural Networks, Tehran, May 2002

• H. Valizadegan, Fuzzy Detection of Abnormal Cervical Cells, Symposium on Intelligent Systems, May 2000, Tehran, Iran

• H. Valizadegan, Genetic Optimization of Fuzzy Classifiers, Symposium on Intelligent Systems, May 2000, Tehran, Iran

• H. Valizadegan, Automatic Detection of Abnormal Cervical Cells, B.Sc Final Project, Computer Engineering Department, 1999 (Advisor: Dr. Mostafa Kermani)

DISTINCTIONS & AWARDS

• Summer retention fellowship. a graduate school campus-wide fellowship, Michigan State University, April 2007

• SDM travel award, 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 2007

• NIPS travel award, 19th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, December 2006

• Graduate school travel award for attending NIPS'06, Michigan State University, October 2006

• Honorable mention, Graduate research poster contest, Department of Computer Science, Michigan State University, April 2006

• Graduated with distinction (ranked first) among the students in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Field, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, April 2002

• Admitted with distinction (ranked 5) among about 3500 participants in national computer science graduate studies entrance exam in Iran, April 1999