• Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
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Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University - 2014
  • B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology - 2006

Research Interests

    • High-performance Computing
    • Graph Algorithms
    • Graph Machine Learning
    • Bioinformatics 

Awards & Honors

  • NSF CAREER Award - 2024
  • Indiana University Trustee's Teaching Award - 2024
  • DOE Early Career Award - 2021

Selected Publications

  • Selahattin Akkas and Ariful Azad. "GNNShap: Scalable and Accurate GNN Explanation using Shapley Values." In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024, pp. 827-838. 2024.
  • G Pavlopoulos, F Baltoumas, S Liu, O. Selvitopi, A Camargo, S Nayfach, A Azad, S Roux, L Call, NN Ivanova, IM Chen, D Paez-Espino, E Karatzas, Novel Metagenom Protein Families Consortium, I Iliopoulos, K Konstantinidis, JM Tiedje, J Pett-Ridge, D Baker, A Visel, CA Ouzounis, S Ovchinnikov, A Buluc, and NC Kyrpides. "Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics." Nature 622, no. 7983 (2023): 594-602.
  • Ariful Azad, Oguz Selvitopi, Md Taufique Hussain, John R. Gilbert, and Aydın Buluç. "Combinatorial BLAS 2.0: Scaling combinatorial algorithms on distributed-memory systems." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 33, no. 4 (2021): 989-1001.
  • Md Khaledur Rahman, Majedul Haque Sujon, and Ariful Azad. "FusedMM: A unified SDDMM-SpMMkernel for graph embedding and graph neural networks." In 2021 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), pp. 256-266. IEEE, 2021.