Publications

2026

BigData 2026

Surface Cues Over Structure: Probing LLM Behavior on Brain Connectivity Graphs

Prapti Roy, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin

IEEE International Conference on Big Data

ICMLA 2026

Does Graph Compression Preserve Signal Propagation?

Kawshik Banerjee, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin

IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications

DSAA 2026

Fin-H2AN: Fingerprint-based Heterogeneous Hypergraph Attention Network for Molecular Property Prediction

Lilia Chebbah, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Mehmet Emin Aktas, Esra Akbas

IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics

DSAA 2026

Enhancing GNN Representations via Homophily-Aware Subgraphs with Multi-Objective Learning

Tanvir Hossain, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Esra Akbas

IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics

2025

Complex Networks 2025

Fragmentation-Based Hypergraph Attention Network for Molecular Classification Tasks

Jenifer Nguyen, Anh Tang, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Lilia Chebbah, Esra Akbas

International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications

IJCNN 2025

HyperGCL: Multi-Modal Graph Contrastive Learning via Learnable Hypergraph Views

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Shihao Ji, Esra Akbas

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

PRICAI 2025Stanford Graph Learning Workshop 2024

Topology-guided Hypergraph Transformer Network: Unveiling Structural Insights for Improved Representations

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Mehmet Emin Aktas, Esra Akbas

Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence

BigData 2025

DyGL: Dynamic Graph Learning For Event Prediction

Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Tanvir Hossain, Esra Akbas

IEEE International Conference on Big Data

2024

DSAA 2024

HeTAN: Heterogeneous Graph Triplet Attention Network for Drug Repurposing

Farhan Tanvir, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Tanvir Hossain, Arunkumar Bagavathi, Esra Akbas

IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics

ECML PKDD 2024

Tackling Oversmoothing in GNN via Graph Sparsification

Tanvir Hossain, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam, Farhan Tanvir, Esra Akbas

European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Journal · TCBB 2024

DDI Prediction with Heterogeneous Information Network - Meta-Path Based Approach

Farhan Tanvir, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam, Esra Akbas

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

2023

CIKM 2023MLG @ KDD 2023

Seq-HyGAN: Sequence Classification via Hypergraph Attention Network

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Corey May, Farhan Tanvir, Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam, Esra Akbas

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management

ICDE 2023

HyGNN: Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction via Hypergraph Neural Network

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Bri Bumgardner, Farhan Tanvir, Esra Akbas

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

ACM-BCB 2023BioKDD 2022

DDI Prediction via Heterogeneous Graph Attention Networks

Farhan Tanvir, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Esra Akbas

ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine

2021

BigData 2021

Drug Abuse Detection in Twitter-sphere: Graph-Based Approach

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Muhammad Ifte Khairul Islam, Esra Akbas

IEEE International Conference on Big Data

ICMLA 2021

Effects of COVID-19 on individuals in Opioid Addiction Recovery

Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Esra Akbas, Max Khanov, Jason Beaman

IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications

BigData 2021

Drug-Drug Interaction Prediction: a Purely SMILES Based Approach

Bri Bumgardner, Farhan Tanvir, Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin, Esra Akbas

IEEE International Conference on Big Data