Research Areas

🔍 Information Retrieval

We develop advanced algorithms and systems for efficient and effective information retrieval from large-scale data collections. Our work focuses on improving search accuracy, relevance, and user satisfaction.

Key Topics:

  • Neural ranking models and learning to rank
  • Query understanding and expansion
  • Document representation and indexing
  • Web search and enterprise search systems
  • Evaluation metrics and test collections

💬 Natural Language Processing

We develop NLP techniques that enable computers to understand, interpret, and generate human language in meaningful ways.

Key Topics:

  • Text classification and sentiment analysis
  • Named entity recognition and relation extraction
  • Question answering systems
  • Machine translation and cross-lingual NLP
  • Text summarization and generation

📊 Data Mining and Analytics

We extract valuable insights and patterns from large-scale datasets using advanced data mining and analytical techniques.

Key Topics:

  • Pattern recognition and discovery
  • Recommender systems
  • Temporal and spatial data analysis
  • Large-scale data processing
  • Scholarly data mining

📱 Social Media Analytics

We analyze social media data to understand user behavior, track trends, and extract actionable insights from user-generated content.

Key Topics:

  • Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
  • Community detection and influence analysis
  • Event detection and trend analysis
  • Misinformation and fake news detection
  • Social network analysis

⚖️ Bias Detection and Mitigation

We research methods to identify and address fairness, bias, and transparency issues in AI and information systems to ensure equitable outcomes.

Key Topics:

  • Fairness-aware machine learning
  • Bias in ranking and recommendation
  • Algorithmic auditing and impact assessment
  • Interpretable and explainable AI (XAI)
  • Mitigation strategies in NLP and IR

🧬 Multimodal Bio-NLP

We focus on integrating textual, visual, and molecular data to solve complex biomedical problems, leveraging the synergy between different data modalities.

Key Topics:

  • Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA)
  • Biomedical image captioning and report generation
  • Cross-modal retrieval in healthcare
  • Multi-modal representation learning for diagnosis
  • Integrating omics data with biomedical text

💻 Computational Biology

We utilize algorithms and computational models to understand biological systems, focusing on the analysis of genomic and proteomic data.

Key Topics:

  • Genomic sequence analysis
  • Protein structure prediction and folding
  • Drug discovery and repurposing
  • Biological network analysis
  • Phylogenetic inference