Mehrnaz Najafi
I am a fifth year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science
at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
mnajaf2[at]uic[dot]edu
About Me
I received my Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Toronto, where I advised by Professor Masrha Chechik. I presented a poster titled "Chunk-Based Software Evolution" and gave a talk in NECSIS 2014.
I got my Master's and Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University. I ranked first among all MSc students in Computer Engineering and second among all BSc student in Computer Engineering.
I am receipent of Jim Gray Scholarship 2015 (sponsored by Microsoft).
I've served as a reviewer for ICML2020, TKDE, ITNNLS.
Research
I am member of Big Data and Social Computing Lab, working under supervision of Professor Philip S. Yu.
My main research areas are Machine Learning (Deep Learning), Data Mining and Convex Optimization.
During my master's degree at University of Toronto, I focused on data management and application of formal techniques in software engineering.
Experience
Machine Learning Engineer Intern, LinkedIn, May 2020 - Aug. 2020
Deep Learning Engineer Intern, Illumina, May 2019 - Aug. 2019
Machine Learning Research Intern, Walmart Labs, May 2018 - Aug. 2018
Publications
Conferences
ERX Auto-Input
M. Najafi, R. Karedla, P. Kabra, S. Roy, S. Wu, J. Zhang and S. Pahwa
The 5th Annual Walmart Data Science Conference, 2018.
Error-Robust Multi-View Clustering
M. Najafi, L. He and P. S. Yu
IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2017.
An Animation Approach to Develop C++ Code from Object-Z Specifications
M. Najafi, and H. Haghighi
CSI International Symposium on Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2011.
An Integration of UML-B and Object-Z in Software Development Process
M. Najafi, and H. Haghighi
International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and System Sciences, and Engineering 2011 (CISSE 2011), Springer, 2012.
Refinement of Object-Z Specification Using Morgan's Refinement Calculus
M. Najafi, and H. Haghighi
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, No. 59, pp. 1735-1744, 2011.
Journals
A Set of Refactoring Rules for UML-B Specifications
M. Najafi, H. Haghighi and T. Z. Nasab
Computing and Informatics, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 411-440, 2016.
A Formal Mapping from Object-Z Specification to C++ Code
M. Najafi and H. Haghighi
Elsevier Journal of Scientia Iranica, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 1953-1977, 2013.
Poster
Chunk-Based Software Evolution
M. Najafi, R. Salay and M. Chechik
Network for the Engineering of Complex Software-Intensive Systems for Automotive Systems, 2014.