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. |
Students¶
 Kawshik Banerjee PhD CS, SIUC |
 Prapti Roy PhD CS, SIUC |
 Avais Jan CS, GSU (PhD Dissertation Committee Member) |
 Onil Morshed BS CS, Gettysburg College |
📢 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: Hypergraph Neural Networks for Molecular Structure Encoding
📅 Duration: June 2024 – December 2025
BS, Data Science student at Georgia Gwinnett College
📚 Project: Hypergraph Neural Networks for Molecular Structure Encoding
📅 Duration: June 2024 – December 2025
Jenifer Nguyen
MS, Georgia State University
📚 Project: Hypergraph Neural Networks for Molecular Structure Encoding
📅 Duration: June 2024 – December 2025
MS, Georgia State University
📚 Project: Hypergraph Neural Networks for Molecular Structure Encoding
📅 Duration: June 2024 – December 2025
Daniel Maliro
BS, Georgia State University
📚 Project: Structural Cohesiveness-Based Community Search: A K-Core, K-ECC, and K-Truss Framework
📅 Duration: June 2023 – June 2024
BS, Georgia State University
📚 Project: Structural Cohesiveness-Based Community Search: A K-Core, K-ECC, and K-Truss Framework
📅 Duration: June 2023 – June 2024
Corey May
BS, Arkansas Tech University
📚 Project: Sequence Encoding via Graph-Based Representation Learning
📅 Duration: June 2022 – July 2022
BS, Arkansas Tech University
📚 Project: Sequence Encoding via Graph-Based Representation Learning
📅 Duration: June 2022 – July 2022
Siddhartha Renikuntla
MS, Georgia State University
📚 Project: Heterogeneous Graph-Based Learning for Stealthy App Detection
📅 Duration: May 2022 – May 2023
MS, Georgia State University
📚 Project: Heterogeneous Graph-Based Learning for Stealthy App Detection
📅 Duration: May 2022 – May 2023
🧠 Working with others¶
Tamanna Urmi
PhD student, NetSI, Northeastern University | BS, MIT
📚 Project: Hypergraph
📅 Duration: 2025 – Present
PhD student, NetSI, Northeastern University | BS, MIT
📚 Project: Hypergraph
📅 Duration: 2025 – Present
Wan He
PhD student, NetSI, Northeastern University | BS in Mathematics, Imperial College London
📚 Project: GenAI for Hypergraph
📅 Duration: 2025 – Present
PhD student, NetSI, Northeastern University | BS in Mathematics, Imperial College London
📚 Project: GenAI for Hypergraph
📅 Duration: 2025 – Present