The following information explains my philosophy and contributions in the areas of teaching, and research, and scholarly activities, and illustrates how I have reached my goals.

The main factor that inspired me to be a teacher was my family. Both of my parents and most of my ancestors were teachers and I wanted to be an educator like them. In fall 2002 I joined CSUSM because of two main reasons: “Diversity” and “Student-instructor collaboration”. I enjoy teaching students from many different backgrounds. Further, most of our classes have small sizes which allow me to talk to my students face to face and give them the attention they need to succeed in my courses.

I am strongly committed to teaching and I believe that educating others is a responsibility that should be taken seriously and with care. I believe that all students can be successful; they simply need to tap their potential. Thus, I expect excellence from every student that steps into my classroom and in return, I strive to provide quality teaching through my lectures, labs, and exercises. Thus, I continue to grow and learn so that I stay up to date on the relevant information. I believe that students become more engaged and learn more through active learning as opposed to passive listening. Therefore, I strive to incorporate hands-on demonstrations and activities throughout my courses.  

I base my research on several core principles. First, an important issue for me is the relevance of my research.  It is critical that the research in which I engage in be not only interesting to me, but also be of use to other academies, businesses, and communities. Second, I feel responsible to attempt to conduct the highest quality research possible. If research is to be relevant, it must also be based on quality data, thorough analysis, and properly reasoned interpretation. Therefore, I try to maintain high-quality standards in the research in which I participate. Third, my knowledge about what is true may change. Therefore, to conduct high-quality research I am open to different perspectives, methodologies, and ways of thinking to advance my understanding of the nature of what I study. Finally, it is important to include undergraduate and graduate students in my research.  Since I joined CSUSM, I have been involved in research related to Transaction management in object-Oriented Database, Bioinformatics, and currently I am collaborating with other faculty doing topics related to Data Science, Data Mining, deep learning, and Machine Learing.

Data Science:

• Data Mining
• Data Science
• Deep learning and 
• AI

All the above in the area of Drug Discovery

I have taught the following Courses since September 2002:

• CS 111: Introduction to C++
• CS 211: Advanced C++
• CS 231: Assembly and Digital Circuit
• CS 301: Computer Mastery
• CS 306: Computer Animation
• CS 311: Data Structure
• CS 441: Software Engineering
• CS 351: Programming languages
• CS 443: Fundamentals of Database Systems
• CS 543: Distributed Database
• CS 512: Data Mining
• CS 643: Advanced Database

Journals

1. Jiang Y., Jiang Y, Hamadani K, Ahmadinia A, Hadaegh A, Assessing the “hands-on” factor in virtual and mixed reality physical science labs. Submission Number: 3403. Track: VRST 2022 Papers. Submitted to IEEEVR in 2022. Still under review.
2. Nikhil Bora, Sreedevi Gutta, Ahmad Hadaegh. "Using Machine learning to Predict Heart Disease”, WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine. Print ISSN: 1109-9518, E-ISSN: 2224-2902. Volume 19, 2022
3. Shubha Singh, Sreedevi Gutta, Ahmad Hadaegh. "Stock Prediction Using Machine Learning", WSEAS Transactions on Computer Research Journal", Volume 9, 2021
4. Farnaz Tajadod, Yanyan Li, Ahmad Hadaegh. “Transactions on Information Science and Applications Journal”, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-0832 / 2224-3402, Volume 18, 2021, Art. #20. Print ISSN: 1790-0832, E-ISSN: 2224-3402. 2021.
5. Osman Mohammed Ahmed, Yanyan Li, and Ahmad Hadaegh. Smart Receptionist Implementation Facial Recognition and Voice Interaction. International Journal of Image Processing (IJIP), Volume (15) : Issue (3) : 2021 37 ISSN: 1985-2304, https://www.cscjournals.org/journals/IJIP/description.php  2021
6. Meet Shah, Yanyan Li, Ahmad Hadaegh, “Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation with Convolutional Neural Network. International”, Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE), Volume-9 Issue-5,  2021.
7. Ahmad Hadaegh and Yanyan Li. Modeling and Predicting the Outbreak. International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering (IJATCSE). Vol. 10 No 1, 2021.
8. Ahmad Hadaegh and Yanyan Li. Modeling and Predicting the Outbreak. Credit card Approval Verification Model. International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering (IJATCSE). Vol. 10 No 1, 2021.
9. Niki Patel, Yanyan Li and Ahmad Hadaegh. Online Transaction Fraud Detection using Hidden Markov Model & Behavior Analysis. International Journal of Computer Science and Security (IJCSS), Volume (15) : Issue (3) : 2021 59 ISSN: 1985-1553, https://www.cscjournals.org/journals/IJCSS/description.php
10. Nafiseh Masroor, Yanyan Li, and Ahmad Hadaegh. "Comparing Genetic Evolutionary Algorithms on Three Enzymes of HIV-1: Integrase, Protease, and Reverse Transcriptome". International Journal of Biometrics and Bioinformatics (IJBB), Volume (14) : Issue (1) : 2021 1 ISSN: 1985-2347, https://www.cscjournals.org/journals/IJBB/description.php
11. Swetha Sree Cheeti, Yanyan Li, and Ahmad Hadaegh. Twitter Based Sentiment Analysis of Impact of Corvid-19 on Education Globally. IJAIA 2021 : International Journal of Artificial Intelligence & Applications. Volume 12, Number 3. May 2021
12. Jeyshree Krishnaswamy Sundararajan, Yanyan Li and Ahmad Hadaegh. HealthBot for Polycystic ovarian Syndrome. International Journal of Database management System.(IJDMS) Vol 13, No 2, April 2021. https://aircconline.com/ijdms/V13N2/13221ijdms01.pdf
13. Brindavana Sachidanand, Yuanyuan Jiang and Ahmad Hadaegh, Twitter Based Sentimental Analysis of Impact of COVID-19 on Economy using Naïve Bayes Classifier, International Journal of Artificial Intelligent and Expert Systems (IJAE), Volume (10) : Issue (2): 2021.
14. Dhruval Shah, Yanyan Li, and Ahmad Hadaegh, Twitter Based Sentiment Analysis of Each Presidential Candidate Using Long-short Term Memory, International Journal of Computer Science and Security (IJCSS), Volume (15) : Issue (3): 2021.
15. Tang Jiali (Graduate Student), Wang J (Graduate Student) and Hadaegh AR. IJDKP 2020, A Web Repository System for Data Mining in Drug Discovery. International Journal of Data Mining & Knowledge Management Process. IJDKP 2020.
16. Gilbert N (Graduate Student), Hadaegh A.R, Zhang X. An Application of Data Mining Techniques to Student Outcomes. Journal of Data Mining & Knowledge Management Process (IJDKP) Vol.7, No.2, March 2017. DOI: 10.5121/ijdkp.2017.7201
17. Zhang X, Gamarra J, Castro S, Carrasco E, Hernandez A, Mock T, Hadaegh AR, Read BA. Characterization of the Small RNA Transcriptome of the Marine Coccolithophorid, Emiliania huxleyi. PLoS  Apr 21;11(4):e0154279. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154279. eCollection  April 12, 2016.
18. Read BA*, Kegel J, Klute MJ, Kuo A, Lefebvre SC, Maumus F, Mayer C, Miller J, Monier A, Salamov A, Emiliania huxleyi Annotation Consortium, Dacks* JB, Delwiche* CF, Dyhrman* ST, Glockner* G, John* U, Richards* TA, Worden* AZ, Zhang* X & IV Grigoriev*. Emiliania's pan genome drives the phytoplankton's global distribution. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature12221. 2013
19. Gene M. Ko, A. Srinivas Reddy, Rajni Garg, Sunil Kumar, Ahmad R. Hadaegh, “Computational Modeling Methods for QSAR Studies on HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors (2005-2010),” Current-Computer-Aided Drug Design, 2012, pp. 255-270.
20. Hadaegh A. R., and Barker K., Reconciling Instead of Aborting Unsuccessful Transactions in Multi-version Object-bases, Iranian Journal of Science & Technology Journal. 30 (B2), pp 181-198. 2006.
21. Wahlund Thomas M., Hadaegh Ahmad R., Clark Robin, Nguyen Binh, Fanelli Michael, and Read Betsy A. Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags from Calcifying Cells of the Marine Coccolithophorid, Emiliania huxleyi. Journal of Marine Biotechnology, 6 (3), pp 278-290. May 13, 2004
22. Hadaegh A. R., and Barker K., Enhancing Concurrency Using Multi-Versioned Object, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, Iran. 2003Books
23. Brian Kammourieh, Nahid Ebrahimi Majd, and Ahmad Hadaegh. BumpChat: A Secure Mobile Communication System. CSCE 20. The 2020 World Congress in Computer Science and Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (ESCS’20). Lan Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2020. Camera-Ready paper will be published in Book by Springer: Advances in Security, Networks, and Internet of Things.
24. Stairs, J, Hadaegh AR, Zhang X, Implementing a Microarray Database for Coccolithophorids, "New Oceanography Research Development", ISBN: 978-1-60876-341-2. Chapter 12, pp283-290. Spring 2010. I fully wrote this paper by myself. The paper was based on the work of my student, Stairs, who I supervised in this project. I helped Stairs both on the design and implementation of the database.
25. Ranji, Mohammad, Hadaegh, A. R, Comprehensive Genetic Database of Expressed Sequence tags for Coccolithophorids, Published as a book chapter in Advances in Computational Algorithms and Data Analysis ISBN: 978-1-4020-8918-3, Volume 14, pp 51-64, (chapter 4) 2009.Conferences
26. Iranmehr A., Gutta S. Hadaegh A.  I. Improved Prediction of MGMT Methylation Status in Glioblastoma using a Deep Attention Network. The 2nd International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME) in Maldives. Will be Published in IEEE Xplore and indexed by SCOPUS. (Accepted in August 2022)
27. Hamadani K., Jiang Y, Ahmadinia A, Hadaegh A, Moraleja-Garcia J., Mendez A. Shaikh A. Framework for Scalable Content Development In Hands-on Virtual And Mixed Reality Science Labs. 8th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network . Will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. (Accepted on April 8, 2022)
28. Sriram Akhil, Yanyan Li, Ahmad Hadaegh,  “Mining Social Media to Understand User Opinions on IoT Security and Privacy”, 2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP). DOI: 10.1109/SMARTCOMP52413.2021, pp. 23-27, Aug 2021
29. Thakor F (Graduate Student), Hadaegh A, Zhang X. Comparative study of Differential Evolutionary-Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (DE-BPSO) algorithm as a feature selection technique with different linear regression models for analysis of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibition features of Aryl β-Diketo Acids. Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB 2017) Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, ISBN: 978–1–943436–07–1.pages 179-184 March 22, 2017.
30. Kane I (Undergraduate Student), and Hadaegh A. R. Non-linear Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) Models for the Prediction of HIV Drug Performance. 24th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering (SEDE-2015). Page 63-68. Vol 1, ISBN: 9781510812277, San Diego, CA. October 2015.
31. Galvan R, Kashani, M (Graduate Students) and Hadaegh A. R, Improving Pharmacological Research of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibition Using Differential Evolution-Binary Particle Swarm Optimization and Non-Linear Adaptive Boosting Random Forest Regression. 2015 IEEE International Workshop on Data  Integration and Mining San Francisco. Pages: 485-490. DOI: 10.1109/IRI.2015.80. INSPEC Accession Number: 15556631. San Francisco, CA.  August 2015.
32. Kashani, M, Galvan R, (Graduate Students) and Hadaegh A. R, Improving the Feature Selection for the Development of Linear Model for Discovery of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors. ABDA'15 International Conference on Advances in Big Data Analytics. In Proceeding of the 2015 International Conferences On Advances On Big Data Analyses. Pages 150-154. ISBN: 1-60132-411-1. Las Vegas, Nevada. July 2015.
33. Gene M. Ko, Rajni Garg, Sunil Kumar, Barbara A. Bailey, Ahmad R. Hadaegh, “Differential Evolution-Binary Particle Swarm Optimization for the Analysis of Aryl Kiketo Acids for HIV-1 Integrase Inhibition. WCCI 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence June 2012 Brisbane Australia, pp. 1849-1855
34. Ranji, M, Hadaegh, A. R, and, CoccoExpress: Database of Expressed Sequence Tags of Coccolithophorids. Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, ISBN 978-988-98671-6-4, (2007), Newswood Limited, International Association of Engineers conference paper akce: World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, San Francisco, 24.10.2007-26.10.2007 <This paper received best paper award. , see: http://www.iaeng.org/WCECS2007/awards.html>  2007
35. Wang J, and Hadaegh A. R. Recovering the Reconciled Objects. Proceedings of International Advanced Database Conference (IADC 2005) San Diego, California, June 27-30, 2005, pp 49-58.
36. Wahlund Thomas M., Hadaegh Ahmad R., Clark Robin, Nguyen Binh, Fanelli Michael, and Read Betsy A. Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags from Calcifying Cells of the Marine Coccolithophorid, Emiliania huxleyi. Journal of Marine Biotechnology, 6 (3), pp 278-290. May 13, 2004.
37. Rosenthal J, Hadaegh A. R., and Yoshii R. Conversion of the Computer Aided Instruction to Use Database Connectivity, International Conference of Computer Science and its Applications (ICCSA-2004), San Diego California, June 2004, pp 125-134.
38. Perez B., and Hadaegh A. R., Building a Reliable Multiversion object-based system, In Proceeding of Hawaii International Conference on Computer Science (HICCS'04). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp 416-421, Jan 2004.
39. Wahlund T. M, Hadaegh A. R, Clark R, Nguyen B, Fanelli M, and Read B. Complementary DNAs from Expressed Sequence Tag Analysis of the Coccolithophorid Marine Alga, Emiliania Huxleyi, Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), Washington, DC, USA, pp 660, May 2003. Reviewed by the chair of the meeting (Dr. Dauglus Bishop) and the chair elect (Dr. Adam M. Bailis), ISSN: 10602011. <poster presentation>
40. Perez B., and Hadaegh A. R., Recovery in Multiversion Objectbase Systems, The 2003 International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET'03), Minneapolis, MN, USA, August 2003. Web publication: http://www.rfbinternational.com/august_25.htm
41. Fayyazi G., and Hadaegh A. R., Kasraian M, Bluetooth Signposts Providing Road Information to Passing by Vehicles, International Conference of Computer Science and its Applications (ICCSA-2003), San Diego California, July 2003, pp 280-286.
42. Ebert M., Hadaegh A. R., Read B. A., and Wahlund T., Prediction of the Genes in Unicellular Algae Emiliania Huxleyi, International Conference of Computer Science and its Applications (ICCSA-2003), San Diego California, July 2003, pp 320-322.
43. Wahlund T., Hadaegh A. R., Clark R., Fanelli M., and Read B. A., Characterization of Complementary DNAs from Expressed Sequence Tag Analysis of the Coccolithophorid Marine Alga, Emiliania Huxleyi, Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology (ASM), May 2003, Washington, DC pp 660.
44. Hadaegh A. R, and Ehikioya S., The Role of Reconciliation in Retrieving Historical Objects in a Multi-version Object-based System, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 02), Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, ISBN: 0-7803-7514-9; Vol. 3, pp. 1482-1486, August 2002.
45. Hadaegh A. R, and Ehikioya S., Using an Optimistic Protocol to Obtain Historical Information in a Multi-Version Object-based System, The 6th World Multi-conference on Systemic, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI-2002): Computer Science I, Orlando, Florida, USA, Vol 3, pp 325-329, July 14-18, 2002, ISBN: 980-07-8150-1
46. Hadaegh A. R and Barker K., Partial Re-execution: Reconciling Transactions to Increase Concurrency in Object-bases, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99), Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. ISBN: 1-892512-15-7, Vol 3 page 1469-1475 June 1999.
47. Hadaegh A. R., and Barker K., Simple Reconciliation of Transactions to Increase Concurrency in Historical Object-bases, XII Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems – SBBD 97, pp. 44-64, October 1997.
48. Hadaegh, A. R., and Barker K., Version Management in Object Based System, Advances in Data Base and Information Systems (ADBIS 96), Moscow, pp. 126 - 133, September 10 -13, 1996.
49. Graham P, r Graham, Ken Barker, and Ahmad Reza Hadaegh, Disconnected Objects: Reconciliation in a Nested Object Transaction Environment, Proceedings of the ECOOP'96 Workshop on Mobility and Replication (WMR'96), Linz, Austria, July 1996. Published by Dpunkt Verlag in "Special Issues in Object Oriented Programming", pp. 379-383. (the Workshop Reader for ECOOP'96)
50. Hadaegh A. R., Graham P., and Barker K., An Architecture and Model for Processing Transactions in Multi-version Object Base Systems, In the Proceedings of the Second Annual Mid-Continent Information Database Systems Conference, Database Research Group, Fargo ND, Volume 2, Fargo, USA, May, 1993, pp 99-112Poster Presentations
51. Wang X, Gonzalez K, Moberly J, Sarno A, Young G, Hadaegh A. R, Zhang X, and Read B. Genome-Wide Analysis of Selenoproteins in Emiliania huxleyi, American Society of Limnology and Oceanograph. New Orland, Feb 2013
52. Gene M. Ko, Rajni Garg, Sunil Kumar, Barbara A. Bailey, Ahmad R. Hadaegh, “A Hybridized Evolutionary Algorithm for Feature Selection of Chemical Descriptors for Computational QSAR Modeling of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors,” Computational Science Curriculum Development Forum and Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support for Industry, San Diego State University, March 1, 2013
53. Gene M. Ko, A. Srinivas Reddy, Sunil Kumar, Barbara A. Bailey, Rajni Garg, Ahmad R. Hadaegh, “Evolutionary Computational Modeling of β-Diketo Acids for Virtual Screening of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors”, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012.
54. Gene M. Ko, A. Srinivas Reddy, Rajni Garg, Sunil Kumar, Ahmad R. Hadaegh, “Evolutionary Computational Modeling of β-Diketo Acids for Virtual Screening of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors,” 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
55. Chris L. Turner, Miguel A. Gonzales, Gene M. Ko, Ahmad R. Hadaegh, “Genetic Algorithm Modeling of Dimeric Aryl Diketo Acid Inhibitors for HIV-1 Integrase,” 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
56. Miguel A. Gonzales, Chris L. Turner, Gene M. Ko, Ahmad R. Hadaegh, “Binary Particle Swarm Optimization Model of Dimeric Aryl Diketo Acid Inhibitors for HIV-1 Integrase,” 243rd National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, San Diego, CA, March 25-29, 2012.
57. Gene M. Ko, A. Srinivas Reddy, Sunil Kumar, Rajni Garg, Ahmad R. Hadaegh, “Analysis of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors Using Computational QSAR Modeling,” Computational Science Curriculum Development Forum and Applied Computational Science and Engineering Student Support for Industry, San Diego State University, March 23, 2012. <Awarded Los Alamos Award for Outstanding Presentation>.
58. Gene M. Ko, Chris L. Turner, Miguel A. Gonzales, Ahmad R. Hadaegh. “QSAR Study on Dimeric Aryl Diketo Acid HIV-1 Integrase Inhibition Using Particle Swarm Optimization and Multiple Linear Regression,” National Biomedical Computing Resource Summer Institute, University of California, San Diego, August 1-5, 2011
59. Gene M. Ko, Chris L. Turner, Miguel A. Gonzales, Ahmad R. Hadaegh, “QSAR Analysis of HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors Using Binary Particle Swarm Optimization,” 43rd Western Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Pasadena, CA, November 10-12, 2011.
60. Zhang X, Bolanos L, Callow G, Hadaegh A. R, and Read B. Resequencing the Genome of Different E. huxleyi Isolates. Plant and Animal Genome XVII Conference, January 10-14, 2009
61. Garg R, Reddy S. A, Zhang X, and Hadaegh A. R. MUT-HIV: Mutation database of HIV proteases, American Chemical Society (ACS) 234th National Meeting & Exposition August 19-23, 2007, Boston, MA USA CINF 42

Data Science, Data Mining (specially in Drug Discovery), Deep Learning and Machine Learning. 

• Doing the research on HIV
• Doing the research in Alzheimer and 
• Any other topics related to Data Science