Setareh Rafatirad
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Mail: s r a f a t i r a d @ u c d a v i s . e d u
Brief Bio
Setareh Rafatirad is an Associate Professor at University of California, Davis in the Department of Computer Science. Prior to that, she was an Associate Term Professor in Department of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University. She obtained her M.Sc. and PhD in Computer Science from University of California, Irvine in 2009 and 2012. She received the ASSIP 2020 Recognition Award from the College of Science at George Mason University for her service as an Aspiring Scientist's Summer Internship Program Mentor and for guiding undergraduate and high school students in high quality original STEM research. She also received ICDM 2019 Best Paper Award (9% acceptance rate) and was nominated for ICCAD 2019 Best Paper Award. She received research funding from government agencies including NSF, DARPA, and AFRL for major projects. Her research interest covers several areas including Applied Machine Learning, IoT Security, and Natural Language Processing. Currently, she is actively supervising multiple research projects focused on applying ML techniques on different domains including IoT Security and Malware Detection, AI-Assisted Education Equity, and Health.
Current Research Opportunities
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Graduate research positions requiring expertise in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Big Data Analytics, Python programming.
Undergraduate research positions requiring expertise in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Analystics, and Python.
The success story of one of my students funded by OSCAR Undergraduate Research Scholar Program at George Mason University can be found here: click this link .