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+May26 Mahdi Loodaricheh Wins Second Place in GC Poster Competition
Congratulations to CS PhD student and DAIR member Mahdi Arab Loodaricheh, who won second place in the poster competition at The Graduate Center. His poster, “MAGE-ID: A Multimodal Generative Framework for Intrusion Detection Systems,” presented a generative AI framework for creating multimodal attack data to improve intrusion detection systems.
+May26 Molecular Arms Race Classifier work accepted to Digital Discovery
This paper co-led by Chemistry PhD student Favor Achimba and CS PhD student Arezoo Bybordi has been accepted to Digital Discovery! This collaboration has resulted in the MARC a framework that leverages evolutionary scale modeling to predicts the ion channel targets of cysteine-rich venom peptides. Link to Open Access paper is here.
Open RA positions
May 2026 : Hunter College Masters students interested in conducting research in the DAIR Lab for academic/thesis credit should: Hunter College undergraduate students interested in conducting research in the DAIR Lab for academic credit should:
+Apr 26 DAIR members present at HC HUMANities x Tech
Anita Raja and Nan Jia joined Music Professor Poundie Burstein to explore what happens when machine learning models trained on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach are asked to “fill in the blanks” of unfinished compositions. The result raises questions that go far beyond the technical: What does it mean for an algorithm to complete a piece […]
+Mar 26 Arezoo Bybordi awarded the 2026-2027 GC Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship!
Congratulations to CS PhD student and DAIR member Arezoo Bybordi on receiving the prestigious Graduate Center Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship for the 2026-2027 academic year! Hunter CS news link
+Feb 26 Mahdi presents generative framework for handling multimodal data at IEEE ICNC
PhD student Mahdi Loodaricheh presents our paper “MAGE-ID: A Multimodal Generative Framework for Intrusion Detection Systems” at the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2026) in Maui, Hawaii.
+Jan 26 Nan presents Semantic preservation work at HICSS
Nan presents paper titled “An Empirical Framework for Evaluating Semantic Preservation Using Hugging Face” at the 59th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS).
+Dec 25 Nan Jia completes Level 2 exam
Nan Jia successfully presents her Level 2 survey “EVALUATING TRUSTWORTHY AI SYSTEMS THROUGH THE SEMANTICS PRESERVATION LENS: A SURVEY”!
+Dec 25 Study on corticosteroid timing accepted to Pregnancy journal
Moti Gulersen, Adam Lin, Ansaf Salleb-Aouissi, Anita Raja, Robert M. Silver, William A. Grobman, Lynn M. Yee, Judith H. Chung, Hyagriv N. Simhan, Ashley N. Battarbee, Cynthia Gyamfi-Bannerman, Vincenzo Berghella, David M. Haas, “Development and validation of a prediction tool to optimize antenatal corticosteroid timing in patients at risk of spontaneous preterm birth“, Pregnancy, 2 […]
+Dec 25 Raja gives invited talk at JSPS Forum on AI
Raja was invited speaker at the CUNY and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Forum on Artificial Intelligence Forum held December 10, 2025 at the Graduate Center. The talk was titled “AI Under Uncertainty: Robustness as the New Frontier for Multiagent Systems“
