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<h1>Niloofar Azizi</h1>
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/Niloofar-Azizi" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></p>
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<h2>About</h2>
<p>Niloofar Azizi is a research scientist specializing in computer vision and machine learning, specifically focusing on graph neural networks.
She is pursuing her PhD at Graz University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Horst Bischof (2020-2024).
Before her PhD, Niloofar completed her Master's degree at the University of Bonn (2015-2018, Prof. Sven Behnke) and a Bachelor's degree from Shiraz University (2009-2013, Prof. Reza Boostani).</p>
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<h2>Research Interest</h2>
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<li>Graph Neural Networks</li>
<li>Machine Learning/Deep Learning</li>
<li>Computer Vision</li>
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<h2>Education</h2>
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<strong>Ph.D. in Computer Science</strong><br>
Graz University of Technology, Apr. 2024, Graz, Austria<br>
Supervisor: Prof. <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_pq05Q4AAAAJ" target="_blank">Horst Bischof</a>.<br>
Focus: Graph Neural Networks, 3D Human Pose Estimation
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<strong>M.Sc. in Computer Science</strong><br>
Bonn University, Mar. 2018, Bonn, Germany<br>
Supervisor: Prof. <a href="https://www.ais.uni-bonn.de/behnke/" target="_blank">Sven Behnke</a>.<br>
Focus: Deep Learning, Machine Learning
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<strong>B.Sc. in Computer Engineering</strong><br>
Shiraz University, Oct. 2013, Shiraz, Iran<br>
Supervisor: Prof. <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=h-E-Ce4AAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">Reza Boostani</a>.<br>
Focus: Hardware
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<h2>Publications</h2>
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<b>Expressivity in Graph Neural Networks</b><br />
Niloofar Azizi<br />
PhD Thesis, 2024.<br />
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<td class="paperfigurecol"><img alt="Qualitative Results" width="300" src="perturbPE.png"/></td>
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<b>Occlusion Handling in 3D Human Pose Estimation with Perturbed Positional Encoding</b>
<br />Niloofar Azizi, Mohsen Fayyaz, and Horst Bischof.<br />
In <i>Proc. ECCV</i>, 2024.<br />
<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17397">[Paper (arXiv)]</a>
<br /> Introduced a novel positional encoding for GNNs to handle occlusions. Improved performance by 12% on benchmark datasets.<br />
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<b>3D Human Pose Estimation Using Möbius Graph Convolutional Networks.</b>
<br />Niloofar Azizi, Horst Possegger, Emanuele Rodola, and Horst Bischof<br />
In <i>Proc. ECCV</i>, 2022. <br />
<a href = "https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10554">[Paper]</a>
<br> Developed a novel spectral GCN using Möbius Transformation.
Achieved state-of-the-art performance with 90-98% fewer parameters.<br>
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<b>Enhanced Expressivity in Graph Neural Networks.</b><br />
Niloofar Azizi, Nils Kriege, Mohsen Fayyaz, and Horst Bischof<br />
In <i>Proc. NeurIPS (Submitted)</i>, 2024.<br />
<br> Proposed a novel eigenbasis for enhancing GNN expressivity.
Achieved significant speedup and data reduction in link prediction tasks.<br>
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<b>Complex-valued Gated Auto-encoder for Video Frame Prediction.</b><br />
Niloofar Azizi, Nils Wandel, and Sven Behnke <br />
In <i>Proc. ESANN (Oral)</i>, 2019.<br />
<a href = "https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03336">[Paper]</a>
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<b>Location Dependency in Video Prediction.</b><br />
Niloofar Azizi, Hafez Farazi, and Sven Behnke <br />
In <i>Proc. ICANN (Oral)</i>, 2018.<br />
<a href = "https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04937">[Paper]</a>
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<h2>Work Experience</h2>
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<strong>Researcher</strong><br>
Graz University of Technology, Jan. 2020 – Jun. 2024, Graz, Austria<br>
Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)
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<strong>Researcher</strong><br>
Dortmund University, Mar. 2019 – Dec. 2019, Dortmund, Germany<br>
German Research Foundation (DFG)
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<strong>Researcher</strong><br>
Bonn University, Mar. 2018 – Mar. 2019, Bonn, Germany<br>
German Research Foundation (DFG)
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<strong>Student Researcher</strong><br>
Bonn University, Oct. 2016 – Mar. 2018, Bonn, Germany<br>
German Research Foundation (DFG)
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<h2>Patent</h2>
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<li>Möbius Graph Convolutional Networks, Issued: Jan. 2022, Inventor: Niloofar Azizi</li>
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<h2>Awards & Services</h2>
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<li>Inventor Awards: MöbiusGCN innovation, Graz University of Technology, Jul. 2021 - Jun. 2023</li>
<li>Invitee Speaker: ETH Zurich, May 2024; University of Vienna, Apr. 2024</li>
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<h2>Extracurricular Activities</h2>
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<li>Advanced Ping Pong Player Won over 20 national/regional championships, Led training sessions, and Organized community ping pong events.</li>
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