Heidar Davoudi, Ontario Tech University

Research

Data Mining Dynamic Network Explainable Models Graph Mining Information Network Knowledge Discovery Machine Learning User Modelling

Latest funding

Actionable Behaviour Discovery in Heterogeneous Social Graphs
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$120,000
Actionable Behaviour Discovery in Heterogeneous Social Graphs
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
$12,500
Knowledge based neural question generation from text
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
$150,600

All 3 grants and awards

Actionable Behaviour Discovery in Heterogeneous Social Graphs

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Davoudi, Heidar

Keywords: graph mining; data mining; machine learning; dynamic network; information network; knowledge discovery; explainable models; user modelling

$120,000

Actionable Behaviour Discovery in Heterogeneous Social Graphs

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Launch Supplement

Principal investigators: Davoudi, Heidar

$12,500

Knowledge based neural question generation from text

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: An, Aijun A

Keywords: Deep neural networks; Natural language processing; Question generation; Sequence-to-sequence models

$150,600

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Data Mining Dear Professor Davoudi, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on data mining connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Actionable Behaviour Discovery in Heterogeneous Social Graphs" (2020), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]