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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Science - Computing Science
- yousefne@ualberta.ca
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About
I am a Senior Data Scientist and AI Technical Lead at the Western Excellence Center, National Bank of Canada, with cross-continental experience spanning Eurasia, East Asia, and North America. In parallel with my industry role, I serve as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, where I collaborate with Prof. Russ Greiner on academic research initiatives. I also contribute to research and open-source development through my self-founded company, Learning By Machine.
My research is at the forefront of pioneering advancements in machine learning, with a focus on deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and reinforcement learning (RL) methodologies. These breakthroughs are finely honed for analyzing diverse data types including time series, text, images, audio, and wearable signals.
Featured Publications
Arshak Rezvani, Nasrin Ravansalar, Mohammad Ali Akhaee, Andrew J. Greenshaw, Russell Greiner, Maryam S. Mirian, Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Martin J. McKeown
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. 2025 January; 10.1109/TNSRE.2025.3589074
Shuo Huang, Liang Sun, Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Meiling Wang, Daoqiang Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 2022 September; 10.1109/TCDS.2021.3098743
Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Alessandro Selvitella, Liangxiu Han, Daoqiang Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 2021 September; 10.1109/TCDS.2020.2965981
Deep Representational Similarity Learning for Analyzing Neural Signatures in Task-based fMRI Dataset
Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Jeffrey Sawalha, Alessandro Selvitella, Daoqiang Zhang
Neuroinformatics. 2021 July; 10.1007/s12021-020-09494-4
Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Daoqiang Zhang
Neuroinformatics. 2019 April; 10.1007/s12021-018-9394-9
Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Daoqiang Zhang
Cognitive Computation. 2018 April; 10.1007/s12559-017-9518-9
Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Sheng-Jun Huang, Daoqiang Zhang
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. 2018 February; 10.1109/TCYB.2016.2642999
Deep Hyperalignment
31st Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). 2017 December;
Local Discriminant Hyperalignment for multi-subject fMRI data alignment
34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2017 February;
Proceedings of the 17th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, SDM 2017. 2017 January;
Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Daoqiang Zhang
2016 December; 10.1101/092221
Muhammad Yousefnezhad, Daoqiang Zhang
2016 December; 10.1101/092247
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence. 2016 January; 10.1016/j.engappai.2016.10.005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 2016 January; 10.1007/978-3-319-49685-6_5
Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM. 2016 January; 10.1109/ICDM.2015.145
2015 10th Asian Control Conference: Emerging Control Techniques for a Sustainable World, ASCC 2015. 2015 January; 10.1109/ASCC.2015.7244415
2015 7th Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology, IKT 2015. 2015 January; 10.1109/IKT.2015.7288793
Intelligent Data Analysis. 2015 January; 10.3233/IDA-150728
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