Publications

Peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and preprints

Published
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence IJPRAI

Medical X-Ray Image Enhancement Using G-CLAHE

Sohrab Namazi Nia et al.  ·  2024

Proposed G-CLAHE combining global and local histogram equalization for medical X-rays, achieving 17% improvement in diagnostic accuracy for chest X-ray abnormality detection and outperforming state-of-the-art methods across multiple quality metrics.

HealthcareImage ProcessingDeep Learning
Published
ACM SIGMOD 2026 SIGMOD

AEGIS: A Correlation-Based Data Masking Advisor for Data Sharing Ecosystems

Laskar, Ramezani, Nankani, Sohrab Namazi Nia, Basu Roy, Beedkar  ·  2025

Data PrivacyData Sharing
Published
VLDB Journal VLDB

Model Reusability in Reinforcement Learning

Nikookar, Sohrab Namazi Nia et al.  ·  2024

Proposed the first principled study of RL model reusability, developing a graph-based framework for Temporal Difference Learning and Deep-RL algorithms. Demonstrated same-quality results as policies trained from scratch with significant efficiency gains.

Reinforcement LearningModel Reusability
Accepted
NE AI Agents Day Workshop 2026 Workshop

Utility-Aware Human–LLM Agent Orchestration for Data Science Pipelines

Sohrab Namazi Nia et al.  ·  2026

Novel framework for agentic collaboration between humans and LLMs across the data science pipeline to maximize utility of downstream ML tasks.

Agentic AILLMsData Science
Under Review
KDD 2026 KDD

LLM-Powered Best Set Recommendation

Sohrab Namazi Nia et al.  ·  2024

LLMsRecommendation
Under Review
VLDB 2026 VLDB

Probabilistic Package Selection on Multi-Modal Data

Sohrab Namazi Nia, Senjuti Basu Roy, Sihem Amer-Yahia  ·  2026

Introduces algorithms that minimize expensive LLM oracle calls while guaranteeing optimal or near-optimal solutions for probabilistic package selection over multi-modal data.

LLMsMulti-modalAlgorithms
Under Revision
Expert Systems with Applications Journal

Exploring Humans and LLMs in the Data Science Pipeline

Sohrab Namazi Nia and Senjuti Basu Roy  ·  2026

Agentic AILLMsHuman-in-the-Loop
Under Revision
VLDB 2026 VLDB

Lower Bound Distance Queries Without a Distance Oracle

Shetiya, Sohrab Namazi Nia et al.  ·  2026

Suite of algorithmic techniques with provable guarantees for answering lower bound distance queries over metric space graphs with unknown edge distances.

Graph AlgorithmsDistance Queries
Preprint
arXiv arXiv

Top-k Set Queries with User-Specified Scoring Functions on Multi-Modal Data

Sohrab Namazi Nia et al.  ·  2024

Studies the applicability of LLMs as external oracles for answering top-k queries over predicted scores with a probabilistic computational framework achieving order-of-magnitude improvement over baselines.

LLMsTop-k QueriesMulti-modal