Hadi Amiri 
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I am an Assistant Professor in the Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Lowell.
I direct the Computational Language Understanding (CLU) lab, where my students and I investigate some of the key problems in natural language processing (NLP) and healthcare.
For more information, please see my CV.
Prospective PhD students: if you are a motivated student passionate about advancing NLP, please see this page for current research opportunities.
Updates
- 4/2024: honored with Teaching Excellence Award.
- -/2023: served as a panelist on NSF (RI) review panel.
- 9/2023: serving as an Area Chair for LREC-COLING 2024.
- 1/2023: serving as an Area Chair for ACL 2023.
- 1/2021: organizing the CS department's S'21 colloquium series.
- 9/2020: organizing the CS department's F'20 colloquium series.
Research
My research centers on curriculum learning, generation, and strategies for handling and unlearning spurious, noisy and biased data in NLP. Below is a selection of my publications and the complete list can be found here.
Machine Learning of Patient Characteristics to Predict Admission Outcomes in the Undiagnosed Diseases Network
Hadi Amiri, Issac S. Kohane. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 2021.
Neural Self-Training through Spaced Repetition
Hadi Amiri. The 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL’19).
Serial Recall Effects in Neural Language Modeling
Hassan Hajipoor, Hadi Amiri, Maseud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian. The 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL’19).
Spotting Spurious Data with Neural Networks
Hadi Amiri, et al. The 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL’18).
Repeat before Forgetting: Spaced Repetition for Efficient and Effective Training of Neural Networks
Hadi Amiri, et al. The 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP’17).
Target-dependent Churn Classification in Microblogs
Hadi Amiri, Hal Daumé III. The 29th Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’15).
Emerging Topic Detection for Organizations from Microblogs
Chen Yan, Hadi Amiri, Zhojun Li, Tat-Seng Chua. ACM SIGIR conference on research and development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’13).
Mining Slang and Urban Opinion Words and Phrases from cQA Services: An Optimization Approach
Hadi Amiri, Tat-Seng Chua. The Fifth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM’12).
Teaching
Contact
One University Avenue, 334 Dandeneau Hall, Lowell, MA 01854
+1 (978) 934 3612