Masoumeh Tabaeh Izadi

Post doctoral fellow at MCHI

Research Interests

• Decision making under uncertainty
• Probabilistic reasoning
• Knowledge representation
• Theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Data mining and analysis
• Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
• Applications of AI and machine learning

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Projects

• AI techniques for biosurveillance systems (with David Buckeridge)
• Detectability of waterborne infectious disease outbreaks in public health practice (with David Buckeridge)
• Data mining techniques for physicians performance analysis and manpower planning (with David Buckeridge and Robyn Tamblyn)
• Learning and planning in partially observable dynamical systems (with Abdeslam Boularia and Brahim Chaib-draa)

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Publications

• M.T. Izadi and D. Buckeridge. Decision Theoretic Analysis of Improving Epidemic Detection. American Medial Informatics Association (AMIA). Chicago, USA, 2007.
  
  
• M.T. Izadi and D. Buckeridge. Optimizing Anthrax Outbreak Detection Methods Using Reinforcement Learning. International Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI). Vancouver, Canada, 2007.
  
  
• M.T. Izadi and D. Buckeridge. Using Probabilistic Graphical Models in Epidemiology. Women in Machine Learning (WIML). Orlando, USA, 2007.
  
  
• M. T. Izadi. On knowledge representation and decision making under uncertainty. Ph.D. thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2007.
  
  
• Masoumeh T. Izadi and Doina Precup. Exploration in POMDP belief space and its impact on value iteration approximation European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Workshop on Planning, Learning and Monitoring with Uncertainty and Dynamic Worlds (PLMUDW). Riva del Garda, Italy, 2006. [slides]
  
  
• Masoumeh T. Izadi, Doina Precup, and Danielle Azar. Belief selection in point-based planning algorithms for POMDPs In Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Quebec City, Canada, 2006
  
  
• Masoumeh T. Izadi and Doina Precup. Using Rewards in POMDP Belief Update. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML). Porto, Portugal, 2005.
  
  
• Masoumeh T. Izadi and Doina Precup Model Minimization by Linear PSR. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.
  
  
• Masoumeh T. Izadi, Ajit Rajwade and Doina Precup. Using Core Beliefs in Point-Based Value Iteration In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005.
  
  
• Masoumeh Izadi Research Summary Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation (SARA) Airth Castle, Scotland,Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3607 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-27872-9 2005.
  
  
• M.T. Izadi and D. Precup. A Planning Algorithm for Predictive State Representation In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Acapulco, Mexico, 2003.
  
  
• Masoumeh T. Izadi and Tomasz Radzik. Improving Security in Public Key Cryptosystems Master's thesis. King’s College University of London, London, UK 2000
  
  

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Teaching

• Course Lecturer, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Undergraduate course on "Introduction to Computing 308-202A", Fall 2001.
• Teaching Assistant, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Undergraduate courses on "Algorithms and Data Structures, 308-431" and "Introduction to Computer Science, 308-250 ", 2001-2003.
• Teaching Assistant, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Graduate course on "Probabilistic reasoning in AI, 308-526" 2006.