Mar 2026: Congratulations to Fawad for successfully defending his PhD dissertation and becoming Dr. Khan.
Jan 2026: Congratulations to Kartik for securing a job at Amazon.
Jan 2026: One paper (lead by Soheila Farokhi) accepted to the The Web Conference 2026 (WWW) as research paper. "TAWRMAC: A Novel Dynamic Graph Representation Learning Method." (Congrats to Soheila)
Aug 2025: One paper (lead by Muhammad Fawad Akbar Khan and Ludia Feri) got accepted to the 12th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) 2025. "Student-perceived Cognitive Load of LLM-generated Programming Exercises." (Congrats to Fawad and Ludia)
Aug 2025: Kartik Thakkar successfully defended his master's dissertation (Congrats to Kartik).
Apr 2024: M. Fawad Akbar Khan received "Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award" of the Department of Comuter Science. (Congrats to Fawad).
Apr 2024: Two papers accepted to Educational Data Mining 2024. Congrats to Fawad, Soha, Aswani and Max.
Nov 2023: Aswani Yaramala successfully defended her master's dissertation (Congrats to Aswani).
Nov 2023: Two papers got accepted to IEEE Big Data 2023 (Congrats to Fawad).
July 2023: One paper (lead by Soheila Farokhi) got accepted to The 10th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA) 2023 Enhancing the Performance of Automated Grade Prediction in MOOC using Graph Representation Learning
Apr 2023. One paper got accepted to 2023 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition Mining 2023. Leveraging Social Media Analytics in Engineering Education Research
Apr 2023: One paper got accepted to Educational Data Mining 2023. An Analysis of Diffusion of Teacher-curated Resources on Pinterest
Feb 2023: Dr. Karimi's interview with AggieTVNews, a local "TV" at Utah State University about ChatGPT
Dec 2022: Dr. Karimi received International Faculty Recognition Award at Utah State University
Dec 2022: One paper accepted to IEEE Big Data 2022. Teachers in Social Media: A Gender-aware Behavior Analysis
Sep 2022: One paper accepted to DSSA 2022. Enhancing Individual Fairness through Propensity Score Matching
Sep 2022: One paper accepted to ICMLA 2022. Decision Boundaries of Deep Neural Networks
Sep 2022: One paper accepted to ICMLA 2022. A New Framework to Assess the Individual Fairness of Probabilistic Classifiers
Sep 2022: One paper accepted to DSSA 2022. Enhancing Individual Fairness through Propensity Score Matching
May 2022: One paper accepted to Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC) 2022. Temporal Abstract Syntax Trees for Understanding Student Coding Thought Process
May 2022: Dr. Karimi received funding from Utah Extension Water Initiative (Utah State University). Predicting Snowpack and Snowmelt to Optimize Water Resource Management in Utah
May 2022: Dr. Karimi received funding from United States Geological Survey (USGS). Developing High-Resolution Seasonal Snow Forecasts for Utah's Watersheds
Dec 2021: Dr. Karimi received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A Smart Toolkit for Knowledge Brokers to Visualize Social Opportunity Spaces
