I'm a Founding Researcher at a Quis.Inc startup pioneering GNN-powered search technologies. My research focuses on pushing the boundaries of Graph Neural Networks, with breakthrough methods that have outperformed all state-of-the-art approaches in GNN explanation, published at top-tier venues including ECCV and NeurIPS. I'm a CS PhD at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Binghui Wang, as a CS research scientist at IIT. NewsSep 2025
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NeurIPS 2025 Paper Accepted! - "Measure-Theoretic Anti-Causal Representation Learning" (career milestone achievement)
Sep 2025
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First International Trip - Canada visit celebrating green card approval and birthday
Sep 2025
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Received U.S. Green Card - Through National Interest Waiver (NIW) after 2.5-year process
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Conference Presentation - NeurIPS paper lightning talk and poster at 10th Midwest Security Workshop, Indiana University
Sep 2025
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GNN Breakthrough - Rule-based modeling code successfully identified novel GNN patterns in network data at Quis
Aug 2025
NeurIPS Rebuttal Success - Final scores: three accepts, one weak accept
Aug 2025
Clark Project Complete - Delivered multi-agent system with fully functional proof-of-concept demo
Previously, I was an AI Research Scientist at Mayo Clinic, where my GNN research contributed to breakthrough methods in Alzheimer's disease research, co-authored with world-renowned expert Dr. Ronald C. Petersen. I also served as Founding Head of Data Science at Golrang Industrial Group (Iran's largest industrial group with 100+ subsidiaries), where I established and led their machine learning-driven data science division. My journey in AI began as one of the youngest college lecturers at Jahad Daneshgahi Sharif, where I founded Iran's first and most prominent Deep Learning/Neural Network teaching platform in 2018 — years before such educational resources became mainstream. This early commitment to democratizing AI education reflects my belief in the transformative power of knowledge sharing. I serve on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine and regularly review for leading publications including Journal of General Internal Medicine and The Journal of Primary Prevention. View my Web of Science author profile for complete publication record. |
I am broadly interested in redefining causal Machine Learning (The knowledge of cause and effect for learning) to artificial intelligence as a backbone for theoretical computer science. I am also applying my new algorithms and frameworks on real-world datasets to explore the information within images, graphs, social networks, and protein chains. More technically, I am now working on causal representation learning for language models. |
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Arman Behnam, Binghui Wang 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems; December 2025 paper / code / video
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Arman Behnam, Muskan Garg, Xingyi Liu, Maria Vassilaki, Jennifer St. Sauver, Ronald C. Petersen, and Sunghwan Sohn International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine(BIBM); December 3rd, 2024 paper / code / video
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Arman Behnam, Binghui Wang 18th European Conference on Computer Vision; July 2024 paper / code / video
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Arman Behnam, Roohollah Jahanmahin Modeling Earth Systems and Environment; Jan 30th, 2021 paper / code
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Arman Behnam, Payam Mahmoudi 17th Iranian International Industrial Engineering Conference; Feb 27, 2021
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Mina Samieinasab, S. Ahmad Torabzadeh, Arman Behnam, Amir Aghsami Healthcare Analytics; Nov 27th, 2021
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IoT Enabled Multi-Energy Systems; From Isolated Energy Grids to Modern Interconnected Networks 2023, Pages 69-86
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IoT Enabled Multi-Energy Systems; From Isolated Energy Grids to Modern Interconnected Networks 2023, Pages 87-109
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I've been focusing on moving forward strongly and improving myself this fall, working on my ideas, and doing research to solve the ultimate Generalized Causal Representation Learning for mixed domains with structure agnostic approach.
Hiking, Camping and Neuru Martial Arts. It's summer again baby!