Sajad Abavisani

Sajad Abavisani

Final-year PhD Candidate in Electrical & Computer Engineering

With seven years of experience in machine learning, causal inference, and time series analysis, I am actively seeking full-time positions starting in January 2026.

Specializing in causal learning, deep learning, and advanced time series analysis.

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aug 2020 – Dec 2025

Georgia Institute of Technology

GPA: 3.9/4.0

M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aug 2020 – Aug 2023

Georgia Institute of Technology

GPA: 3.9/4.0

B.S. in Electrical Engineering

Sep 2014 – Sep 2019

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

GPA: 4.0/4.0

Featured Research

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GRACE-C Research

GRACE-C: Generalized Rate Agnostic Causal Estimation

A breakthrough method for causal discovery in undersampled time series data, achieving up to 3 orders of magnitude speed improvement. Presented at ICLR 2023 (Oral, Top 25%).

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Causal Learning Research

Causal Learning through Deliberate Undersampling

Groundbreaking work showing that measuring data less frequently can actually provide more information about causality by reducing ambiguity in causal relationships.

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COVID-19 Detection

Radiologist-Level COVID-19 Detection

Novel DECAPS architecture using detail-oriented capsule networks for automated COVID-19 diagnosis from CT scans, achieving radiologist-level accuracy.

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Technical Projects

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AutoAugment Project

Greedy AutoAugment

Efficient image data augmentation using greedy search strategy, achieving comparable accuracy on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and SVHN while using 360x fewer computational resources.

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ION-C Project

ION-C: Integration of Overlapping Networks

Computationally efficient algorithm that builds unified causal models from separate, partially overlapping datasets, scaling to graphs with up to 25 nodes with 99.55% accuracy.

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Causal Puzzle Project

Piecing Together the Causal Puzzle

Answer Set Programming approach to recover true causal structure from undersampled, noisy neuroimaging time series data with robust fMRI performance.

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Skills & Expertise

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Programming Languages

Python, C++, Matlab, JAVA, Clingo, R

ML Frameworks & Libraries

TensorFlow, PyTorch (CUDA), Scikit-learn, NetworkX, igraph, OpenCV

Machine Learning & AI

Multimodal LLMs, Transformers, Conformers, Predictive & Statistical Modeling, Optimization

Other Technologies

Docker, Git, Parallel Computing, Scalable Solutions, Answer Set Programming