Saed Rezayi

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Evaluation, fairness, and assessment

  • S. Rezayi, L. A. Ha, Y. Zhou, A. Houriet, A. D’Addario, P. Baldwin, P. Harik, A. King, V. Yaneva, “Automated Scoring of Communication Skills in Physician-Patient Interaction: Balancing Performance and Scalability,” ACL-BEA, 2025
  • S. Yarmohammadtoosky, Y. Zhou, V. Yaneva, P. Baldwin, S. Rezayi, B. Clauser, P. Harik, “Enhancing Security and Strengthening Defenses in Automated Short-Answer Grading Systems,” ACL-BEA, 2025
  • S. Rezayi, L. A. Ha, V. Yaneva, P. Harik, J. Mee, J. Snyder, “Policy-Sensitive Fairness Evaluation in Automated Scoring of Clinical Communication,” ACL-BEA, 2026. pdf
  • C. Runyon, P. Baldwin, I. Micir, K. Frome, S. Mann, S. Rezayi, K. Evanini, V. Yaneva, “Evaluating LLM Workflows for Generating Clinical Communication Assessment Items: A Comparative Study with Subject-Matter Experts,” ACL-BEA, 2026. pdf
  • J. Li, S. Rezayi, P. Baldwin, P. Harik, V. Yaneva, “Towards Reliable Generation of Clinical Chart Items: A Counterfactual Reasoning Approach with Large Language Models,” AIME-Con, 2025. pdf
  • V. Yaneva, K. North, P. Baldwin, L. A. Ha, S. Rezayi, Y. Zhou, P. Harik, B. Clauser, “Findings from the First Shared Task on Automated Prediction of Difficulty and Response Time for Multiple-Choice Questions,” ACL-BEA, 2024

Language models and knowledge

  • S. Rezayi, Z. Liu, Z. Wu, C. Dhakal, B. Ge, H. Dai, G. Mai, N. Liu, C. Zhen, T. Liu, S. Li, “Exploring New Frontiers in Agricultural NLP: Investigating the Potential of Large Language Models for Food Applications,” IEEE Transactions on Big Data, 2024
  • S. Rezayi, H. Zhao, R. Zhu, S. Li, “XDC: Adaptive Cross Domain Short Text Clustering,” SDM, 2023
  • Z. Chen, S. Rezayi, S. Li, “More Knowledge, Less Bias: Unbiasing Scene Graph Generation with Explicit Ontological Adjustment,” IEEE/CVF, 2023
  • S. Rezayi, H. Dai, Z. Liu, Z. Wu, A. Hebbar, A. H. Burns, L. Zhao, D. Zhu, Q. Li, W. Liu, S. Li, T. Liu, X. Li, “ClinicalRadioBERT: Knowledge-Infused Few-Shot Learning for Clinical Notes Named Entity Recognition,” MLMI, 2022
  • S. Rezayi, Z. Liu, Z. Wu, C. Dhakal, B. Ge, C. Zhen, T. Liu, S. Li, “AgriBERT: Knowledge-Infused Agricultural Language Models for Matching Food and Nutrition,” IJCAI, 2022
  • S. Rezayi, N. Lipka, V. Vinay, R. Rossi, F. Dernoncourt, S. Li, “A Framework for Knowledge Derived Query Suggestion,” IEEE BigData, 2022
  • S. Rezayi, H. Zhao, S. Kim, R. Rossi, N. Lipka, S. Li, “EDGE: A Framework to Enrich and Learn Knowledge Graphs Using External Text,” NAACL, 2021

Social computing and earlier work

  • S. Shapouri, S. Soleymani, S. Rezayi, “Flood of Techniques and Drought of Theories: Emotion Mining in Disasters,” Journal of Computational Social Science, 2025
  • S. Rezayi, S. Soleymani, H. R. Arabnia, S. Li, “Socially Aware Multimodal Deep Neural Networks for Fake News Classification,” MIPR, 2021
  • S. Rezayi, V. Balakrishnan, S. Arabnia, H. R. Arabnia, “Fake News and Cyberbullying in the Modern Era,” CSCI, 2018. pdf
  • R. Motamedi, S. Rezayi, R. Rejaie, W. Willinger, “Unveiling Social Characteristics of Twitter Elite Network,” ASONAM, 2018. pdf
  • A. Hosseini, S. Rezayi, H. Taheri, “Improving ertPS Grant Allocation for VoIP Traffic in Silence Duration,” International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, 2012. pdf
  • A. Madani, S. Rezayi, H. Gharaee, “Log Management Comprehensive Architecture in Security Operation Center (SOC),” IEEE CASoN, 2011. pdf
  • S. Rezayi, M. Sotoodeh, H. Esmaili, “A Password Based Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Wireless LAN Based on Elliptic Curve and Digital Signature,” International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, 2011. pdf
  • S. Rezayi, A. Hosseini, H. Taheri, “Implementation of Extensible Authentication Protocol in OPNET Modeller,” ACM ICNCC, 2011. pdf

Patents

  • N. Lipka, S. Rezayi, V. Vinay, R. Rossi, F. Dernoncourt, T. King, “Search Query Reformulation with a Robust Framework for Entity Linking and Link Prediction.” Patent pending.

Service

Program Committee, AAAI. Reviewer for ACL and ACL Rolling Review, EMNLP, ICML, KDD, UAI, IEEE Sensors Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. Technical Committee member, MobiQuitous.