Welcome to the homepage of the Information Fusion Lab at the College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst!
We are a team of researchers at UMass Amherst CICS working on ML for multimodal data, including methods that support a wide range of biomedical applications. Our research includes a wide variety of topics including deep learning for the fusion of multi-resolution time series, images and structured information, the incorporation of domain knowledge or saliency in imaging and integration of multiple views for MRI analysis. Most recently, we introduced new methods for normalizing flows and transfer of causal models. Please see our research page for a full list of projects and our GitHub page for code releases.
We have an excellent team of talented graduate students and undergrads. If you are a UMass student and are interested in joining the group, or are a prospective external collaborator, please see this page.
Here is some recent news about our team:
- PhD student Deep Chakraborty was awarded the Edward Riseman and Allen Hanson Scholarship
- PhD student Ke Xiao was awarded the Paul Utgoff Memorial Scholarship
- The paper ‘Normalizing Flows Across Dimensions‘, lead author Eddie Cunningham, was presented at the ICML 2020 INNF+ workshop
- The paper ‘Structure Mapping for Transferability of Causal Models‘, lead author Purva Pruthi, was presented at the ICML 2020 BIG workshop
About the College of Information and Computer Sciences:
CICS is internationally recognized for its research activities and has one of the highest ranked and most competitive graduate programs in the nation. With over 40 faculty affiliated with the Center for Data Science, the College is distinguished by its culture of collaboration and leadership in multidisciplinary research. The department is #11 in AI and #20 in Computer Science in the US, according to the US News graduate schools ranking system. According to csrankings, CICS is in the top 10 universities in the US on AI and #16 in the world.
Recent Publications
2025 |
Shankar, Shiv; Sinha, Ritwik; Fiterau, Madalina Experimentation under Treatment Dependent Network Interference Conference 41st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 286, PMLR, 2025. @conference{nokey, |
2024 |
Yunfei Lou Iman Deznabi, Abhinav Shaw Dynamic Clustering via Branched Deep Learning Enhances Personalization of Stress Prediction from Mobile Sensor Data Journal Article In: Nature Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 6631, 2024. @article{nokey, |
Peeyush Kumar Iman Deznabi, Madalina Fiterau Zero-shot micro-climate prediction with deep learning Workshop 2024. @workshop{Deznabi2024,Weather station data is a valuable resource for climate prediction, however, its reliability can be limited in remote locations. To compound the issue, making local predictions often relies on sensor data that may not be accessible for a new, previously unmonitored location. In response to these challenges, we propose a novel zero-shot learning approach designed to forecast various climate measurements at new and unmonitored locations. Our method surpasses conventional weather forecasting techniques in predicting microclimate variables by leveraging knowledge extracted from other geographic locations. |
2023 |
Shankar, Shiv AI assisted Search for Atmospheric CO2 Capture Workshop 2023. @workshop{nokey,Carbon capture technologies is an important tool for mitigating climate change. In recent years, polymer membrane separation methods have emerged as a promising technology for separating CO2 and other green house gases from the atmosphere. Designing new polymers for such tasks is quite difficult. In this work we look at machine learning based methods to search for new polymer designs optimized for CO2 separation. An ensemble ML models is trained on a large database of molecules to predict permeabilities of CO2/N2 and CO2/O2 pairs. We then use search based optimization to discover new polymers that surpass existing polymer designs. Simulations are then done to verify the predicted performance of the new designs. Overall result suggests that ML based search can be used to discover new polymers optimized for carbon capture |
Iman Deznabi, Madalina Fiterau Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL 2023), vol. 209, 2023. @conference{Deznabi2023,The analysis of multivariate time series data is challenging due to the various frequencies of signal changes that can occur over both short and long terms. Furthermore, standard deep learning models are often unsuitable for such datasets, as signals are typically sampled at different rates. To address these issues, we introduce MultiWave, a novel framework that enhances deep learning time series models by incorporating components that operate at the intrinsic frequencies of signals. MultiWave uses wavelets to decompose each signal into subsignals of varying frequencies and groups them into frequency bands. Each frequency band is handled by a different component of our model. A gating mechanism combines the output of the components to produce sparse models that use only specific signals at specific frequencies. Our experiments demonstrate that MultiWave accurately identifies informative frequency bands and improves the performance of various deep learning models, including LSTM, Transformer, and CNN-based models, for a wide range of applications. It attains top performance in stress and affect detection from wearables. It also increases the AUC of the best-performing model by 5% for in-hospital COVID-19 mortality prediction from patient blood samples and for human activity recognition from accelerometer and gyroscope data. We show that MultiWave consistently identifies critical features and their frequency components, thus providing valuable insights into the applications studied. |
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