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Dr. Khaled
Dr. Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin
Tenure-track Assistant Professor · Computer Science
School of Computing, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Carnegie R1)
📧 [email protected] 🏢 EGRA 409E
About
Before joining Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Dr. Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Barabási Lab under Albert-László Barabási and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia State University under Dr. Esra Akbas. His research has been published in top venues such as ICDE, CIKM, ECML PKDD, DSAA, ACM BCB, IJCNN, PRICAI, IEEE BigData and KDD workshops and presented at the Stanford Graph Learning Workshop. He has held leadership roles as Area Chair for AI4Science–ICML and NeurIPS. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at the Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium 2023 at the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard, the Dell–Intel Student Award, and the Fraser Travel Award.
📢 Updates
  • Dr. Khaled Saifuddin has been selected as a Mentor at LogML 2026 Summer School on Geometry and Machine Learning, London 🎉
  • Dr. Khaled Saifuddin is chairing a Special Session titled 'Graph Machine Learning for Complex Systems and Applications' at ICMLA 2026 and invites paper submissions
  • SNAS Interdisciplinary Research Conference 2026 website is now LIVE!!! Link Consider submitting your paper
  • Dr. Khaled Saifuddin is co-chairing a Special Session titled 'Advances in Multimodal AI: Method and Application' at SMC 2026 and invites paper submissions
  • "Fragmentation-Based Hypergraph Attention Network for Molecular Classification Tasks" accepted @ Complex Networks'25 🎉 Congratulations Jenifer and Anh for your very first paper!
  • HyperGCL accepted @ IJCNN'25.
  • THTN accepted at Stanford Graph Learning Workshop '24 (Link) and PRICAI 2025.
  • Papers accepted @ DSAA, ECML PKDD and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
  • Proud to have received the Outstanding Poster Presentation Award at Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium '23 by the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. Detailed News →
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Research Interests
  • Graph Machine Learning, Graph GenAI, Graph Mining, Network Science
  • Bioinformatics, Network Medicine, Health Data Analytics
  • Vision–Language Reasoning, Event Understanding, Social Network Analysis
Research Grants & Funding
  • New Faculty Startup Research Fund, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (VCR), Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Teaching
  • CS437/528 Machine Learning and Soft Computing
  • CS220 Programming with Data Structures
Services
  • Area Chair: AI4Science–ICML 2024, AI4Science–NeurIPS 2023
  • Reviewer: Nature Communications Biology, KDD 2025, IJCNN 2025, KDD 2024, TGL–NeurIPS 2023, TGL–ICML 2023, EPJ Data Science 2024, WWW 2024
  • Proceedings Chair: SNAS Interdisciplinary Research Conference, 2025
  • Collaborator & Mentor: NSF-funded REU summer research program, GSU 2024
Media Coverage & Awards