- Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering
- Email: ariful@tamu.edu
- Office: PETR 215

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University - 2014
- B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology - 2006
Research Interests
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- 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.