Biography:Soha Hassoun

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Short description: American computer scientist
Soha Hassoun
Alma materSouth Dakota State University (BSEE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS)

University of Washington (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsMachine learning and systems biology
InstitutionsTufts University
Websitehttps://www.cs.tufts.edu/~soha/

Soha Hassoun is American computer scientist. She is Professor (since 2015) and Past Chair (2013–2016) of the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University. Hassoun's interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and systems biology.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Hassoun earned her BSEE degree from the South Dakota State University (1986), MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1988), and PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington (1997).[5]

In 1988–1991 Hassoun was an integrated circuit designer with the Microprocessor Design Group, Digital Equipment Corporation. She worked as consultant for IKOS Systems (later part of Mentor Graphics) (1999–2001) and some other EDA companies. Since 1998 she has been with Tufts University.[6]

Awards and recognition

  • 2016: Marie R. Pistilli Women in Engineering Achievement Award[7]
  • 2015: IEEE CEDA (Council on Electronic Design Automation) Distinguished Service Award for chairing the Design Automation Conference
  • 2000, 2007: ACM/SIGDA Distinguished Service Award[8]
  • 2002: ACM/SIGDA Technical Leadership Award[8]
  • Senior member of IEEE (2007) and ACM[5]
  • 2001–2006: NSF CAREER Award[9]

References

  1. Visani, Gian Marco; Hughes, Michael C.; Hassoun, Soha (2021). "Enzyme promiscuity prediction using hierarchy-informed multi-label classification". Bioinformatics 37 (14): 2017–2024. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab054. PMID 33515234. 
  2. Jiang, Julie; Liu, Li-Ping; Hassoun, Soha (2021). "Learning graph representations of biochemical networks and its application to enzymatic link prediction". Bioinformatics 37 (6): 793–799. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa881. PMID 33051674. PMC 8097755. https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/37/6/793/5922818. 
  3. Hosseini, Ramtin; Hassanpour, Neda; Liu, Li-Ping; Hassoun, Soha (May 2020). "Pathway-Activity Likelihood Analysis and Metabolite Annotation for Untargeted Metabolomics Using Probabilistic Modeling" (in en). Metabolites 10 (5): 183. doi:10.3390/metabo10050183. PMID 32375258. 
  4. Liu, Linfeng; Hughes, Michael C.; Hassoun, Soha; Liu, Liping (2021-07-01). "Stochastic Iterative Graph Matching" (in en). International Conference on Machine Learning (PMLR): 6815–6825. http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/liu21i.html. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Soha Hassoun webpage @ Tufts
  6. "Soha Hassoun" (in en). 2019-02-15. https://engineering.tufts.edu/ece/people/faculty/soha-hassoun. 
  7. "Soha Hassoun to Receive Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award" (in en). 2016-04-25. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160425006477/en/Soha-Hassoun-to-Receive-Marie-R.-Pistilli-Women-in-EDA-Achievement-Award. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 "Service Awards | SIGDA". http://sigda.org/archive/serviceawards.html. 
  9. "NSF Award Search: Award # 0093324 - CAREER: Tools for Designing and Integrating Configurable Components". https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0093324.