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Mina Valizadeh

  • About ME
  • Education
  • Research Experience
  • Publications
  • Work experience
  • Teaching Experience
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  • About ME

    Hi! My name is Mina Valizdeh. I am a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This website is where you can find more about me!

  • Education

    University of Illinois at Chicago

    ​ 2018 - Present

    • Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
    • Advised by Prof. Natalie Parde

    University of Tehran

    2014 - 2018

    • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
    • GPA: 17.53/20
    • Senior Project: Heart Sound Classification Using Machine Learning Tools.
  • Research Experience

    Research Assistant

    Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

    2018 - Present

    • Advised by Prof. Natalie Parde
    • Member of UIC Natural Language Processing Laboratory

    Working on:

    •  Developing dialogue systems for mental health applications.
    • Identifying self-disclosure in online communities such as Twitter & Reddit using deep learning tools and transformers.
    • Artificial intelligence applications in rehabilitation targeting the participation of children with disabilities.
       
  • Publications

    • M. Valizadeh and N. Parde.  The AI Doctor Is In: A Survey of Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems for Healthcare Applications. ACL 2022. Dublin,  Ireland.  See Publication
    • V. Kaelin, M. Valizadeh, Z. Salgado, JG. Sim, D. Anaby,  A. Boyd, N. Parde, M. Khetani.  Capturing and operationalizing participation in pediatric re/habilitation research using artificial intelligence: A scoping review. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences (Special Issue).  See Publication
    • V. Kaelin, M. Valizadeh, Z. Salgado, N. Parde, M. Khetani.  Artificial Intelligence in Participation-Focused Pediatric Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review.  Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 2021. Virtual.  See Publication
    • M. Valizadeh, P. Ranjbar-Noiey, C. Caragea,  and N. Parde.  Identifying Medical Self-Disclosure in Online Communities. NAACL 2021. Mexico City,  Mexico.  See Publication
    • S. Farzana, M. Valizadeh, and N. Parde. Modeling Dialogue in Conversational Cognitive Health Screening Interviews. LREC 2020. Paris, France.  See Publication
    • B. Fan, D. Ihara Centurion, N. Mohammadi, F. Sgherzi, A. Sidiropoulos, and M. Valizadeh. Learning Lines with Ordinal Constraints. APPROX 2020. Seattle, USA.  See Publication

  • Work experience

    Data Scientist Intern

    LinkedIn Corporation

    Sunnyvale, CA, USA

    Sep. 2021- Dec. 2021

    Machine Learning Research Intern

    ​CCC Information Services

    Chicago, IL, USA

    May 2020 - Aug. 2020

  • Teaching Experience

    Database Systems Teaching Assistant

    May. 2021- Aug. 2021

    Instructed by: Diana Diaz

    University of Illinois at Chicago

    • Teaching the design and implementation of databases for web-based applications using Java and SQL.

     

    Computer Architecture Teaching Assistant

    Jan. 2019 - Dec. 2020

    Instructed by: Patrick Troy 

    University of Illinois at Chicago

    • Teaching computer hardware; building blocks, logic gates, registers, and memory; CPU design; I/O design (using C++ and Arduino).

     

    Engineering Camp Instructor

    May 2019 - Jul. 2019

    University of Illinois at Chicago

    • Teaching different computer algorithms and programming languages such as python and C++ to more than 100 students per week from different age groups.

     

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