Publications

(* denotes equal contribution)

2025

Lingyu Kong, Nima Shoghi, Guoxiang Hu, Pan Li, Victor Fung

Introduces MatterTune, a modular platform that enables fine-tuning of pre-trained atomistic foundation models for materials science applications.

2024

From Molecules to Materials: Pre-training Large Generalizable Models for Atomic Property Prediction

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)2024Featured

Nima Shoghi, Adeesh Kolluru, John Kitchin, Zachary Ulissi, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Brandon Wood

Introduces Joint Multi-domain Pre-training (JMP), a supervised pre-training strategy that leverages diverse data to advance atomic property prediction across chemical domains, achieving state-of-the-art performance on 34 out of 40 downstream tasks.

Distribution Learning for Molecular Regression

arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.204752024

Nima Shoghi, Pooya Shoghi, Anuroop Sriram, Abhishek Das

Introduces Distributional Mixture of Experts (DMoE), a robust method for molecular property regression that outperforms baselines on multiple datasets and architectures.

2023

Context-Aware Task Handling in Resource-Constrained Robots with Virtualization

IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE)2023

Ramyad Hadidi, Nima Shoghi, Bahar Asgari, Hyesoon Kim

Develops a fast context-aware technique that enables resource-constrained robots to handle multiple tasks simultaneously with improved timeliness, demonstrating a 42% speedup in execution time compared to standard scheduling approaches.

Richard Tran, Janice Lan, ..., Nima Shoghi, ..., C. Lawrence Zitnick

Introduces the Open Catalyst 2022 (OC22) dataset, consisting of 62,331 DFT relaxations, to accelerate machine learning for oxide electrocatalysts and establish benchmarks for the field.

2022

Adeesh Kolluru, Nima Shoghi, Muhammed Shuaibi, Siddharth Goyal, Abhishek Das, C. Lawrence Zitnick, Zachary Ulissi

Introduces a transfer learning approach using Graph Neural Networks to generalize models across domains in molecular and catalyst discovery, reducing the need for large, domain-specific datasets.

Adeesh Kolluru, Muhammed Shuaibi, Aini Palizhati, Nima Shoghi, Abhishek Das, Brandon Wood, C. Lawrence Zitnick, John Kitchin, Zachary Ulissi

Discusses the challenges and potential of developing generalizable machine learning models for catalyst discovery, highlighting the importance of large-scale datasets like the Open Catalyst 2020 Data set (OC20).

2021

Nima Shoghi, Andrei Bersatti, Moinuddin Qureshi, Hyesoon Kim

Introduces SmaQ, a quantization scheme that leverages the normal distribution of neural network data structures to efficiently quantize them, addressing the memory bottleneck in single-machine training of deep networks.

Quantifying the Design-Space Tradeoffs in Autonomous Drones

Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS)2021

Ramyad Hadidi, Bahar Asgari, Sam Jijina, Adriana Amyette, Nima Shoghi, Hyesoon Kim

Formalizes the subsystems of autonomous drones and quantifies the complex tradeoffs in their design space to enable optimized solutions for diverse applications.

2020

Neural Network Weight Compression with NNW-BDI

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Memory Systems (MemSys)2020

Nima Shoghi, Andrei Bersatti, Hyesoon Kim

Introduces NNW-BDI, a neural network weight compression scheme that reduces memory usage by up to 85% without sacrificing inference accuracy on an MNIST classification task.

Pisces: Power-Aware Implementation of SLAM by Customizing Efficient Sparse Algebra

2020 57th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC)2020

Bahar Asgari, Ramyad Hadidi, Nima Shoghi, Hyesoon Kim

Introduces Pisces, a power-aware SLAM implementation that consumes 2.5x less power and executes 7.4x faster than the state of the art by customizing efficient sparse algebra on FPGAs.

Nima Shoghi, Ramyad Hadidi, Lee Jaewon, Jun Chen, Arthur Siqueria, Rahul Rajan, Shaan Dhawan, Pooya Shoghi, Hyesoon Kim

Introduces a scalable, infrastructure-independent, location-aware authentication protocol for intelligent transportation systems, providing trustworthy communication and efficient sender localization using visual authentication beacons.

Understanding the Software and Hardware Stacks of a General-Purpose Cognitive Drone

2020 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS)2020

Sam Jijina, Adriana Amyette, Nima Shoghi, Ramyad Hadidi, Hyesoon Kim

Conducts an in-depth analysis of the hardware and software components of autonomous drones, characterizing the performance of the ArduCopter flight stack and providing insights to optimize flight controllers and increase drone range.

2019

SLAM Performance on Embedded Robots

Student Research Competition at Embedded System Week (SRC ESWEEK)2019

Nima Shoghi, Ramyad Hadidi, Hyesoon Kim

Demonstrates the feasibility of running ORB-SLAM2 in real-time on the Raspberry Pi 3B+ for embedded robots through optimizations that achieved a 5x speedup with minor impact on accuracy.