Hamid Usefi

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL, Canada, A1C 5S7

Phone: (709) 864-8798

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Selected Publications (complete list can be found here)

• E. Ghanem, A. Hatefi, H. Usefi, Unsupervised Liu-type Shrinkage Estimators for Mixture of Regression Models, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 2024. arXiv:2209.04739
• A. Ameli, L. Pena-Castillo, H. Usefi, Assessing the reproducibility of machine-learning-based biomarker discovery in Parkinson's disease, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2024. DOI
• A. Sardari, H. Usefi, Machine learning-based meta-analysis of colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease, PLoS ONE, 2023. DOI
• M. Maheri, C. Bazan, S. Zendehboudi, H. Usefi, Machine learning to assess CO2 adsorption by biomass waste, Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2023. DOI
• H. Usefi, Clustering, multicollinearity, and singular vectors, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2022. arXiv
• M. Afshar, H. Usefi, Optimizing feature selection methods by removing irrelevant features using sparse least squares, Expert Systems with Applications, 2022.
• M. Afshar, H. Usefi, Dimensionality reduction using singular vectors, Scientific Reports, 2021. PDF
• H. Marvi Khorasani, H. Usefi, L. Pena-Castillo, Detecting ulcerative colitis from colon samples using efficient feature selection and machine learning, Scientific Reports, 10 (2020). arXiv: 2008.01615
• M. Afshar and H. Usefi, High dimensional feature selection for genomic datasets, Knowledge-Based Systems, 206 (2020). arXiv: 2002.12104

Conferences and Sessions

I have been a co-organizer for sessions on the mathematics of machine learning at Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) bi-annual meetings:

• CMS Summer 2024
• CMS Winter 2023
• CMS Summer 2023
• CMS Summer 2022
• CMS Winter 2022
• CMS Winter 2021