Zohair Shafi
(he/him/his)
PhD Student
Labs and Groups
Research Interests
- Machine learning
- Network science
- Graph embeddings
- Artificial intelligence
- Ethics in AI
- Security and privacy
Education
- BE in Computer Sciences, PES Institute of Technology — India
Biography
Zohair Shafi is a doctoral student at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Tina Eliassi-Rad. His doctoral research, which he began in 2021 and expects to complete in 2026, focuses on machine learning and network science, with an emphasis on downstream tasks and attacks on graph embeddings.
Before joining Khoury College, Shafi worked as a performance engineer at Akamai Technologies. With Eliassi-Rad and other Khoury College students, he published a paper dealing with Bayesian networks and Rawlsian fair equality of opportunity.
Recent Publications
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PATHATTACK: Attacking Shortest Paths in Complex Networks
Citation: B.A. Miller, Z. Shafi, W. Ruml, Y. Vorobeychik, T. Eliassi-Rad, S. Alfeld. "PATHATTACK: Attacking Shortest Paths in Complex Networks". In Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD), September 2021. -
RAWLSNET: Altering Bayesian Networks to Encode Rawlsian Fair Equality of Opportunity
Citation: Liu, David and Shafi, Zohair and Fleisher, William and Eliassi-Rad, Tina and Alfeld, Scott, RAWLSNET: Altering Bayesian Networks to Encode Rawlsian Fair Equality of Opportunity (January 31, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3816196