VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Emaad Khwaja
dblp:369/5959
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3ranked-venue papers
2as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
2 papers |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Deep learning architectures and training · 54% Generative modeling · 46% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Machine learning and data management · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Deep learning architectures and training › foundation model
time series foundation model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | This Time is Different: An Observability Perspective on Time Series Foundation Models · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
text-to-image generation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | CELL-E: A Text-to-Image Transformer for Protein Image Prediction · RECOMB 2024 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
protein structure prediction |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | CELL-E: A Text-to-Image Transformer for Protein Image Prediction · RECOMB 2024 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › protein design
de novo protein design |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | CELLE-2: Translating Proteins to Pictures and Back with a Bidirectional Text-to-Image Transformer · NeurIPS 2023 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
protein design |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | CELLE-2: Translating Proteins to Pictures and Back with a Bidirectional Text-to-Image Transformer · NeurIPS 2023 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › protein function prediction
protein subcellular localization prediction |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | CELLE-2: Translating Proteins to Pictures and Back with a Bidirectional Text-to-Image Transformer · NeurIPS 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
text-to-image generation · 2.2synthetic data generation · 1.7pre-training · 1.7transformer · 1.5bidirectional transformer · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | This Time is Different: An Observability Perspective on Time Series Foundation ModelsabstractWe introduce Toto, a time series forecasting foundation model with 151 million parameters. Toto uses a modern decoder-only architecture coupled with architectural innovations designed to account for specific challenges found in multivariate observability time series data. Toto's pre-training corpus is a mixture of observability data, open datasets, and synthetic data, and is 4-10$\times$ larger than those of leading time series foundation models. Additionally, we introduce BOOM, a large-scale benchmark consisting of 350 million observations across 2,807 real-world time series. For both Toto and BOOM, we source observability data exclusively from our own telemetry and internal observability metrics. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that Toto achieves state-of-the-art performance on both BOOM and on established general purpose time series forecasting benchmarks. Toto's model weights, inference code, and evaluation scripts, as well as BOOM's data and evaluation code, are all available as open source under the Apache 2.0 License. Ben Cohen, Emaad Khwaja, Youssef Doubli, Salahidine Lemaachi, Chris Lettieri, Charles Masson, Hugo Miccinilli, Elise Ramé, Qiqi Ren, Afshin Rostamizadeh, Jean Ogier du Terrail, Anna-Monica Toon, Stephan Xie, Zongzhe Xu, Viktoriya Zhukova, David Asker, Ameet Talwalkar, Othmane Abou-Amal |
NeurIPS | 2 |
| 2024 | CELL-E: A Text-to-Image Transformer for Protein Image Prediction
Emaad Khwaja, Yun S. Song |
RECOMB | 1 |
| 2023 | CELLE-2: Translating Proteins to Pictures and Back with a Bidirectional Text-to-Image TransformerabstractWe present CELL-E 2, a novel bidirectional transformer that can generate images depicting protein subcellular localization from the amino acid sequences (and vice versa). Protein localization is a challenging problem that requires integrating sequence and image information, which most existing methods ignore. CELL-E 2 extends the work of CELL-E, not only capturing the spatial complexity of protein localization and produce probability estimates of localization atop a nucleus image, but also being able to generate sequences from images, enabling de novo protein design. We train and finetune CELL-E 2 on two large-scale datasets of human proteins. We also demonstrate how to use CELL-E 2 to create hundreds of novel nuclear localization signals (NLS). Results and interactive demos are featured at https://bohuanglab.github.io/CELL-E_2/. Emaad Khwaja, Yun Song, Aaron Agarunov |
NeurIPS | 1 |