Biography

My areas of research include artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and scalable data science. I am particularly interested in unsupervised learning, zero-shot learning, and conversational AI. I investigate emerging research topics in open-domain natural language interfaces and knowledge-grounded response generation, and build reliable and practical solutions that can seamlessly adapt to new unseen domains on-the-fly. Moreover, I am interested in exploring opportunities to leverage NLP and ML methods across disciplines.

Education

Publications

Workshop/Short Publications

• A.B. Siddique, Ahmed Eldawy, and Vagelis Hristidis. Euler++: Improved Selectivity Estimation for Rectangular Spatial Records, IEEE Big Spatial Data Workshop of IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2019, (IEEE BSD '19).
• A.B. Siddique and A. Eldawy. Experimental evaluation of sketching techniques for big spatial data, In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, (SoCC ’18) | Poster.

Working Papers

• A.B. Siddique, Fuad Jamour, Luxun Xu, and Vagelis Hristidis. Generalized Zero-shot Intent Detection via Commonsense Knowledge, Under Review.
• A.B. Siddique, Fuad Jamour, and Vagelis Hristidis. Open-domain Slot Filling via Pre-trained LMs and Knowledge Graphs, Promising Initial Results.

Professional Experience

Teaching Expertise

• Advanced Web Technologies
  Spring '15, Spring '16, Spring '17.
• Big Data Programing
  Spring '15, Spring '16, Spring '17.
• Artificial Intelligence
  Spring '10, Spring '11, Spring '12, Spring '15, Spring '16, Spring '17.
• Internet Applications Design and Development
  Fall '12, Fall '13, Fall '14, Fall '15, Fall '16.
• Advanced Software Development
  Fall '14, Fall '15, Fall '16.
• Mobile Application Development - Android
  Fall '14, Fall '15, Fall '16.
• iPhone Applications Development
  Spring '13, Spring '14.
• Web Technologies
  Spring '13, Spring '14.
• Programing Fundamentals
  Spring '13, Spring '14.
• Software Project Management
  Fall '12, Fall '13.
• Testing and Quality Assurance
  Fall '12, Fall '13.
• Object Oriented Programing
  Spring '10, Spring '11, Spring '12.
• Software Engineering
  Spring '10, Spring '11, Spring '12.
• Analysis of Algorithms
  Fall '09, Fall '10, Fall '11.
• Data Structures and Algorithms
  Fall '09, Fall '10, Fall '11.
• Object Oriented Design and Programing
  Fall '09, Fall '10, Fall '11.

Service & Outreach

• Program Committees
  WWW '21, ICML '21, ICLR '21, ICML '20.
• Student Research Workshop Program Committees
  NAACL '21, EACL '21, ACL '20, AACL '20, ACL '19.
• Mentoring
  Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Graduate Summit, UCR 2020.
• Sub-Reviewer
  SIGMOD '21, SIGMOD '20, SIGMOD '19, KDD '19, ICDE '18.
• Volunteer
  ACM SIG SPATIAL '17.