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Research Themes

Privacy-Preserving AI

Differentially private generative models for synthetic data, enabling HIPAA-compliant healthcare AI.

NLP & Language Models

Deep learning for text understanding, sequence modeling, and advances in language generation and comprehension.

Computer Vision & Multimodal

3D CNNs for audio-visual recognition, cross-modal learning, and biometric identification systems.

Neural Architecture

Structured sparsity, attention mechanisms, and efficient architectures for production deployment.

Featured Papers

NLP survey
arXiv, 2020
380+ citations

Natural Language Processing Advancements By Deep Learning: A Survey

A. Torfi, R.A. Shirvani, Y. Keneshloo, N. Tavaf, E.A. Fox
NLP Deep Learning Survey

A comprehensive survey covering the evolution of deep learning techniques in NLP, from word embeddings and recurrent architectures to transformer-based models. Reviews key advances in machine translation, text classification, question answering, and language generation.

DP synthetic medical data
Information Sciences, 2022
140+ citations

Differentially Private Synthetic Medical Data Generation using Convolutional GANs

A. Torfi, E.A. Fox, C.K. Reddy
Privacy GANs Healthcare

Proposes a framework for generating synthetic medical data with formal differential privacy guarantees using convolutional GANs. Enables sharing of realistic medical datasets while protecting patient privacy, addressing a critical bottleneck in healthcare AI research.

3D CNN audio-visual recognition
IEEE Access, 2017
150+ citations

3D Convolutional Neural Networks for Cross Audio-Visual Matching Recognition

A. Torfi, S.M. Iranmanesh, N.M. Nasrabadi, J.M. Dawson
Computer Vision Audio-Visual 3D CNNs

Introduces a 3D CNN architecture for joint audio-visual recognition, leveraging spatiotemporal features from synchronized audio and video streams. Demonstrates effectiveness on speaker verification and lip-reading tasks with end-to-end training.

More Publications

2021

GRAPPA-GANs for Parallel MRI Reconstruction

A. Torfi, N. Tavaf, K. Ugurbil, P.-F. van de Moortele
GANs Medical Imaging
2020

CorGAN: Correlation-Capturing Convolutional GANs for Generating Synthetic Healthcare Records

A. Torfi, E.A. Fox
GANs Healthcare
FLAIRS 2020
2019

GASL: Guided Attention for Sparsity Learning in Deep Neural Networks

A. Torfi, R.A. Shirvani, S. Soleymani, N.M. Nasrabadi
Pruning Attention
2018

Generalized Bilinear Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Multimodal Biometric Identification

S. Soleymani, A. Torfi, J.M. Dawson, N.M. Nasrabadi
Biometrics Multimodal
ICIP 2018
2018

SpeechPy — A Library for Speech Processing and Recognition

A. Torfi
Speech Open Source
JOSS, 3(27)
2018

Text-Independent Speaker Verification Using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks

A. Torfi, J.M. Dawson, N.M. Nasrabadi
Speaker Recognition 3D CNNs

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