CV
Basics
| Name | Mehdi Yazdani-Jahromi |
| Label | AI Ph.D. Researcher |
| yazdani@ucf.edu | |
| Phone | (407) 810-4467 |
| Url | http://yazdanimehdi.com |
| Summary | An AI Ph.D. Researcher with a focus on Transformers, Graph Neural Networks, Computational Drug Discovery, Large Language Models, Attention’s Alternative Architecture, and Algorithmic Fairness. |
Skills
| Programming Languages | |
| C++ | |
| Python | |
| C# | |
| Dart | |
| JavaScript | |
| SQL | |
| Solidity | |
| MATLAB |
| Python Packages | |
| Pytorch | |
| Numpy | |
| Pandas | |
| Keras | |
| TensorFlow | |
| Scikit-learn | |
| Scipy | |
| Networkx | |
| iGraph | |
| dgl | |
| matplotlib | |
| seaborn |
| JavaScript Frameworks | |
| Vue.js | |
| Electron | |
| NativeScript |
| Tools | |
| Kubernetes | |
| Docker | |
| Git | |
| HTML | |
| CSS | |
| LATEX | |
| AWS | |
| Distributed Training |
| Quantitative Research | |
| Machine Learning Methods | |
| Artificial Intelligence | |
| Large Language Models | |
| Generative AI | |
| Genomics Sequence Modeling | |
| Graph Neural Networks | |
| Convolutional Neural Networks | |
| Transformers | |
| Recurrent Neural Networks | |
| LSTMs | |
| Mathematical Optimization | |
| Mathematical Modeling |
Work
- 2021 - Present
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Central Florida
Researching drug target interaction, computer vision, and algorithmic fairness.
- 2024 - 2024
Data Science Intern, AI/ML for Drug Discovery
Johnson and Johnson
Computational Drug Discovery, Geometric Learning, Genomics Sequence Modeling, Distributed Training, Training Large Language Models, and Generative AI
- 2020 - 2020
Blockchain Developer
ZTech Team
Developing Blockchain applications on the Ethereum network using Solidity.
- 2020 - 2020
- 2019 - 2020
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
BerimCafe
Developed software for cafe and restaurant managements with Django and Flutter.
- 2019 - 2020
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
TAEPO
Created TOEFL Online Practice and Exam Platform using Django, Vue.js, and Electron.js.
- 2018 - 2019
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
MrZoro.ir
Developed an automated solution for reserving meals in university, a Django based project.
Education
Languages
| English | |
| Fluent |
| Farsi | |
| Native |
| French | |
| Elementary |
Publications
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2024 HELM: Hierarchical Encoding for mRNA Language Modeling
Submitted to ICLR 2024, Neurips 2024 Workshop on AI for New Drug Modalities
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2024 Learning Fair Representations: Mitigating Statistical Dependencies
HCII conference 2023 Oral Presentation
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2024 DeepDrugDomain: Easy-to-use drug-target affinity/interaction prediction package for architecture design
GitHub
A Python package for drug-target affinity/interaction prediction using deep learning methods.
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2024 FragXsiteDTI: an interpretable transformer-based model for drug-target interaction prediction
Recomb 2024 Oral Presentation, Neurips 2023 Workshop on New Frontiers of AI for Drug Discovery and Development
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2023 Controlling the misinformation diffusion in social media by the effect of different classes of agents
The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas Annual Conference
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2023 Agent-Based Modeling of C. Difficile Spread in Hospitals: Assessing Contribution of High-Touch vs. Low-Touch Surfaces and Inoculations' Containment Impact
The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas Annual Conference
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2023 Through a fair looking-glass: on mitigating bias in image datasets
AAAI 2023 Workshop on Representation Learning for Responsible Human-Centric AI and HCII conference 2023 Oral Presentation
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2023 -
2022 -
2022
Awards
Certificates
| Machine Learning Specialization | ||
| Stanford University and DeepLearning.AI |
| Python Fundamentals | ||
| Tehran University | 2018 |
| Advanced Python | ||
| Maktabkhooneh | 2018 |
Courses
| 3D Computer Vision | |
| University of Central Florida - Grade: A | Fall 2022 |
| Advanced Artificial Intelligence | |
| University of Central Florida - Grade: A | Fall 2022 |
| Computer Architecture | |
| University of Central Florida - Grade: A | Fall 2022 |
| Complexity Theory | |
| University of Central Florida - Grade: A | Spring 2022 |
| Design and Analysis of Algorithms | |
| University of Central Florida - Grade: A | Spring 2022 |
| Computer Vision | |
| University of Central Florida - Grade: A | Fall 2021 |
| Mathematical Models in Deep Learning | |
| University of Central Florida - Grade: A | Fall 2021 |
| Experimental Design and Methods | |
| University of Central Florida - Grade: A | Spring 2021 |
References
| Dr. Ozlem Ozmen | |
| Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida |
| Dr. Mangal Prakash | |
| Senior Scientist, AI/ML at Johnson & Johnson (Janssen R&D) |
| Dr. Artem Moskalev | |
| Research Scientist at Johnson & Johnson (Janssen R&D) |
| Dr. Ivan Garibay | |
| Associate Professor at University of Central Florida |