About ME
Hey there! My name is Mina Valizdeh. I am a data scientist at LinkedIn. This website is where you can find more about me!
Work experience
Data Scientist
LinkedIn Corporation
2022 - Present
Data Scientist Intern
LinkedIn Corporation
Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2021
Machine Learning Research Intern
CCC Information Services
May 2020 - Aug. 2020
NLP Researcher
UIC NLP Laboratory
2018 - 2022
Education
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
2018 - 2022
- Ph.D. in Computer Science
- Research Area: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Thesis Title: Identifying Medical Self-Disclosure in Online Platforms [Online Access]
- Advised by Prof. Natalie Parde
University of Tehran (UT)
2014 - 2018
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
- GPA: 17.53/20
- Senior Project: Heart Sound Classification Using Machine Learning Tools.
Publications
- What Clued the AI Doctor In? On the Influence of Data Source and Quality for Transformer-BasedMedical Self- Disclosure Detection M. Valizadeh, X. Qian, P. Ranjbar-Noiey, C. Caragea, N. Parde, EACL 2023. See Publication
- Linguistic Cognitive Load Analysis on Dialogues with an Intelligent Virtual Assistant. M. Arvan, M.Valizadeh, P. Haghighat, T. Nguyen, H. Jeong, N. Parde. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of theCognitive Science Society 2023. See Publication
- Effects of an intelligent virtual assistant on office task performance and workload in a noisy environment.P. Haghighat, T. Nguyen, M. Valizadeh, M. Arvan, N. Parde, M. Kim, and H. Jeong. Applied ergonomics2023. See Publication
- The AI Doctor Is In: A Survey of Task-Oriented Dialogue Systems for Healthcare Applications. M. Valizadeh and N. Parde. ACL 2022. See Publication
- Capturing and operationalizing participation in pediatric re/habilitation research using artificial intelligence: A scoping review. V. Kaelin, M. Valizadeh, Z. Salgado, JG. Sim, D. Anaby, A. Boyd, N. Parde, M. Khetani. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences (Special Issue). See Publication
- Human Interaction with Intelligent Virtual Assistant in a Noisy Environment. P. Haghighat, T. Nguyen,M. Valizadeh, M. Arvan, N. Parde, M. Kim, and H. Jeong. In Proceedings of the Human Factors andErgonomics Society Annual Meeting 2022. See Publication
- Artificial Intelligence in Participation-Focused Pediatric Rehabilitation: A Scoping Review. V. Kaelin, M. Valizadeh, Z. Salgado, N. Parde, M. Khetani. Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR) 2021. See Publication
- Identifying Medical Self-Disclosure in Online Communities. M. Valizadeh, P. Ranjbar-Noiey, C. Caragea, and N. Parde. NAACL 2021. See Publication
- S. Farzana, M. Valizadeh, and N. Parde. Modeling Dialogue in Conversational Cognitive Health Screening Interviews. LREC 2020. See Publication
- Learning Lines with Ordinal Constraints. B. Fan, D. Ihara Centurion, N. Mohammadi, F. Sgherzi, A. Sidiropoulos, and M. Valizadeh. APPROX 2020. See Publication
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.