Research

My research interests primarily focus on recommender systems, data privacy, data mining and machine learning. I am also interested in exploring research topics in general data science and its related areas, such as business, finance, education, and healthcare. At present, I am working on privacy-preserving point-of-interest recommender systems. If you are a student and are interested in any of these topics, feel free to reach out and I would be happy to discuss potential research opportunies.

Projects

  • AI-driven Counseling System for Transfer Students (NSF CNS-2219623) (2022 – Present) [Project Page]
  • Privacy-Preserving Point-of-Interest Recommender System (2019 – 2023) [Project Page]
  • Course Enrollment Recommender System for the Computer Science Department at NEIU (Summer 2021) [Project Page]
  • Text Summarization and Simplification on Medical Documents (Summer 2018)
  • Dialog System for Low Literarcy Breast Cancer Patients and Caregivers (Summer 2017)

Grants

  • NSF CISE-MSI award CNS-2219623 (PI). September 2022 – August 2025 ($594,390)
  • ASEE CyBR-MSI Mini Grant under NSF award CNS-2139136 (PI). May 2022 – September 2022 ($10,000)
  • NEIU Committee on Organized Research Grant (PI). Fall 2020 – Spring 2021 ($4,000), Fall 2021 – Spring 2022 ($4,000)
  • NEIU Research Communities Grant (PI). Fall 2019 – Spring 2020 ($5,000)
  • NEIU SCSE Summer Research Grant (PI), Summer 2019 ($11,000), Summer 2020 ($14,000), Summer 2021 ($18,000)
  • NEIU SCSE Summer Research Grant (Co-PI), Summer 2017, Summer 2018