About
Dr. Magdon-Ismail has been a Professor of Computer Science since 2000. After degrees at Yale and Caltech, Dr. Magdon-Ismail was a research scholar at Caltech before joining Rensselaer as Assistant Professor of Computer Science. His interests are in decision making from data in complex systems, including machine learning, computational finance networked systems and quantum computing. He enjoys poker, bridge, squash, tennis and badminton. For more details, please visit his web page.
Research
Primary Research Focus
Machine Learning (theory, algorithms and applications) and Quantum Computing
Other Focus Areas
Computational Finance; Social and Communication Networks; Hidden Groups; Inference and Search on Volunteer Computing Platforms; Collective Wisdom in Multi-agent Systems; Prediction Markets.
Teaching
Professor Magdon-Ismail mostly teaches theory courses. In the past, he has taught:
- Intro to Computer Science (CSI, CSCI 1100)
- Intro to Algorithms (ALGO, CSCI 2300)
- Computational Analysis of Social Processes (CSAP, CSCI 49xx/69xx)
Current Courses
- Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS, CSCI 2200)
- Machine Learning, Open Source, Open Science (MLOS2, CSCI49xx)
- Machine Learning From Data (MLFD, CSCI 4100/6100)
- Computational Finance (CF, CSCI 4120/6120)
- Computing and Quantum Computing, (CQC, CSCI 4210/6210)
The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Malik Magdon-Ismail has 182 indexed publications in the subjects of Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Science.
Songtao Lu, Yanna Ding, Lior Horesh, Jianxi Gao, Malik Magdon-Ismail
ICASSP IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing Proceedings
, 2025
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Yanna Ding, Jianxi Gao, Malik Magdon-Ismail
Physical Review E
, 109
, 2024
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Yun Lu, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Yu Wei, Vassilis Zikas
Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
, 2024
, pp.913-931
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Georgios Mavroudeas, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Xiao Shou, Kristin P. Bennett
Proceedings - 13th IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Graph, ICKG 2022
, 2022
, pp.180-187
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Georgios Mavroudeas, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Xiao Shou, Kristin P. Bennett
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, ICDMW
, 2022-November
, 2022
, pp.316-323
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Georgios Mavroudeas, Nafis Neehal, Jason Kuruzovich, Kristin P. Bennett, Malik Magdon-Ismail
Proceedings - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2022
, 2022
, pp.1673-1676
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Michele Ciampi, Muhammad Ishaq, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Rafail Ostrovsky, Vassilis Zikas
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
, 13301 LNCS
, 2022
, pp.428-446
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Georgios Mavroudeas, Nafis Neehal, Xiao Shou, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Jason N. Kuruzovich, Kristin P. Bennett
Proceedings - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2021
, 2021
, pp.1443-1448
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Georgios Mavroudeas, Guillaume Baudart, Alan Cha, Martin Hirzel, Jim A. Laredo, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Louis Mandel, Erik Wittern
Proceedings - 2021 36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2021
, 2021
, pp.1146-1150
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Dong Hu, Alex Gittens, Malik Magdon-Ismail
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
, 12457 LNAI
, 2021
, pp.746-761
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