aida

AI@DA Research Group at Data Analytics Tufts University

Mission

The AIDA lab is a collection of professors, researchers, students, and industry advisors. We conduct research in multimodal machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence, in the context of the data analytics program at Tufts.

People

• Shuo Zhang, Ph.D, Professor of the Practice
• Jeanie Cherng, Ph.D, Industry Advisor

Research assistants

• Ishmam Khan (MS, DA’26)
• Ziyi Liu (MS, DA’25)
• Ziwen Xu (MS, Economics’25)

Students

• Zijia Chen (MS, BME’26)
• Joao Quintanilha (MS, DA’26)
• Andrew Cho (BS, Computer Science, Boston University)

Collaborators

• Rui Chu (PhD, ECE’27 Tufts Cybersecurity and Knowledge Computing Lab)
• Prof. Jennifer Williams, University of Southmapton, UK
• Prof. Jeff Zabel, Tufts University
• Prof. Alice Mello, Tufts University

Alumni

• Khambholia, Dharva Mehul (MS, DA’25->Reality Defender)
• Zhou Zhou (MS, DA’25->SinoLink Securities)

Projects

• Estimating Regional Poverty Using Deep Learning and Multisource Satellite Imagery (Ziwen Xu, advised by Jeff Zabel and Shuo Zhang)
• StoicLLM: Finetuning Llama 3 With A Small Dataset Using ORPO (Ishmam Khan)
• Hand gesture recognition with CNNs (Ziwen Xu)
• Speech accent deepfake dataset (Khambholia, Dharva Mehul; Zhou Zhou; advised by Shuo Zhang, Jennifer Williams)
• Audio Language Models
• LLM inference (Rui Chu, Ziyi Liu)
• Music source separation (Andrew Cho)
• Modeling piano fingering and data set (Zijia Chen)