Team
Lab Director¶
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Dr. Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Email: [email protected] Office: EGRA 409E Dr. Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He previously 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, BCB, IJCNN, PRICAI, BigData and KDD workshops and presented at 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. |
PhD Students¶
🎓 Join Our Research Team! Looking for motivated PhD students starting Spring '26 and beyond
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📢 For SIUC Students
Any Masters or Undergraduate student at SIUC who is interested in our research areas is encouraged to contact the Lab director.
🎓 Mentorship Highlights¶
Anh Tang
BS, Data Science student at Georgia Gwinnett College
Project MolNet+ — Hypergraph Neural Networks for Molecular Structure Encoding
June 2024 – Current
Jenifer Nguyen
MS, Georgia State University
Project MolNet+ — Hypergraph Neural Networks for Molecular Structure Encoding
June 2024 – Current
Daniel Maliro
BS, Georgia State University
Project Structural Cohesiveness-Based Community Search: A K-Core, K-ECC, and K-Truss Framework
June 2023 – June 2024
Corey May
BS, Arkansas Tech University
Project Sequence Encoding via Graph-Based Representation Learning
June 2022 – July 2022
Siddhartha Renikuntla
MS, Georgia State University
Project Heterogeneous Graph-Based Learning for Stealthy App Detection
May 2022 – May 2023
🧠Working with PhD Students
Tamanna Urmi
PhD student, NetSI, Northeastern University
BS, MIT
BS, MIT
Project Hypergraph
2025 – Present
Xiyu Yang
PhD student, NetSI, Northeastern University
MS, Harvard University | BS, UWM
MS, Harvard University | BS, UWM
Project Hypergraph
2025 – Present
Wan He
PhD student, NetSI, Northeastern University
BS in Mathematics, Imperial College London
BS in Mathematics, Imperial College London
Project GenAI for Hypergraph
2025 – Present