Mohammed J. Zaki

Mohammed J. Zaki is a Professor and Department Head at the Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He co-directs the NSF IUCRC Center for Research Towards Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT) and has authored the textbook Data Mining and Machine Learning (2nd Ed, Cambridge University Press, 2020).

• Research Focus: Novel data mining techniques for graph-structured and textual data with applications in bioinformatics, personal health, and financial analytics.
• Leadership: Co-chair of BIOKDD workshops, Associate Editor for multiple journals, and Program Co-chair for SIGKDD, SDM, ICDM, and other top conferences.

Scientific Awards include:

• EDBT'24 Test of Time Award
• NSF CAREER Award
• DOE Early Career Award
• HP Innovation Research Award
• Google Faculty Research Award
• Fellowships: IEEE, ACM, AAAS, SIAM

  Recent Publications highlight advancements in:

  • Knowledge Graph Completion with Directed Attention
  • Multi-Sense Embeddings for Language Models
  • Financial Trend Prediction via Graph Neural Networks
  • Health-Guided Recipe Recommendation Systems
  • Triplet Interaction in Molecular Graph Learning
  • Temporal Personal Health Data Analysis