Arash Hajisafi

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3ranked-venue papers
3as first author
3since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0000-1056-0640ORCID · corroborated

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 3 · 3 first-author · 3 since 2021Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 2 · 2 first-author · 2 since 2021

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Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Medical and health informatics · 100%
Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Data stream processing · 100%
Computer graphics and multimedia
1 paper
Visualization and visual analytics · 100%

Topics — the 1 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Visualization and visual analytics
health data visualization
0.212024
Wearables for Health (W4H) Toolkit for Acquisition, Storage, Analysis and Visualization of Data from Various Wearable Devices · ICDE 2024
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 WaveGNN: Integrating Graph Neural Networks and Transformers for Decay-Aware Classification of Irregular Clinical Time-Series
abstract
Clinical time series are often irregularly sampled, with varying sensor frequencies, missing observations, and misaligned timestamps. Prior approaches typically address these irregularities by interpolating data into regular sequences, thereby introducing bias, or by generating inconsistent and uninterpretable relationships across sensor measurements, complicating the accurate learning of both intra-series and inter-series dependencies. We introduce WaveGNN, a model that operates directly on irregular multivariate time series without interpolation or conversion to a regular representation. WaveGNN combines a decay-aware Transformer to capture intra-series dynamics with a sample-specific graph neural network that models both short-term and long-term inter-sensor relationships. Therefore, it generates a single, sparse, and interpretable graph per sample. Across multiple benchmark datasets (P12, P19, MIMIC-III, and PAM), WaveGNN delivers consistently strong performance, whereas other state-of-the-art baselines tend to perform well on some datasets or tasks but poorly on others. While WaveGNN does not necessarily surpass every method in every case, its consistency and robustness across diverse settings set it apart. Moreover, the learned graphs align well with known physiological structures, enhancing interpretability and supporting clinical decision-making.
Arash Hajisafi, Maria Despoina Siampou, Bita Azarijoo, Zhen Xiong, Cyrus Shahabi
IEEE Big Data1
2024 Wearables for Health (W4H) Toolkit for Acquisition, Storage, Analysis and Visualization of Data from Various Wearable Devices
abstract
The Wearables for Health Toolkit (W4H Toolkit) is an open-source platform that provides a robust, end-to-end solution for the centralized management and analysis of wearable data. With integrated tools and frameworks, the toolkit facilitates seamless data acquisition, integration, storage, analysis, and visualization of both stored and streaming data from various wearable devices. The W4H Toolkit is designed to provide medical researchers and health practitioners with a unified framework that enables the analysis of health-related data for various clinical applications. We provide an overview of the system and demonstrate how it can be used by health researchers to import and analyze a wide range of wearable data and perform data analysis, highlighting the versatility and functionality of the system across diverse healthcare domains and applications.
Arash Hajisafi, Maria Despoina Siampou, Jize Bi, Luciano Nocera, Cyrus Shahabi
ICDE1
2023 Learning Dynamic Graphs from All Contextual Information for Accurate Point-of-Interest Visit Forecasting
abstract
Forecasting the number of visits to Points-of-Interest (POI) in an urban area is critical for planning and decision making in various application domains, from urban planning and transportation management to public health and social studies. Although this forecasting problem can be formulated as a multivariate time-series forecasting task, current approaches cannot fully exploit the ever-changing multi-context correlations among POIs. Therefore, we propose Busyness Graph Neural Network (BysGNN), a temporal graph neural network designed to learn and uncover the underlying multi-context correlations between POIs for accurate visit forecasting. Unlike other approaches where only time-series data is used to learn a dynamic graph, BysGNN utilizes all contextual information and time-series data to learn an accurate dynamic graph representation. By incorporating all contextual, temporal, and spatial signals, we observe a significant improvement in our forecasting accuracy over state-of-the-art forecasting models in our experiments with real-world datasets across the United States.
Arash Hajisafi, Haowen Lin, Sina Shaham, Haoji Hu, Maria Despoina Siampou, Yao-Yi Chiang, Cyrus Shahabi
SIGSPATIAL/GIS1