Machine Learning, Optimization and Data (MOD) Lab


The Machine Learning, Optimization and Data (MOD) Lab at Marquette University is led by Dr. Nasim Yahyasoltani and conducts research on algorithms, analysis, and application of machine learning, optimization and statistical signal processing. With a focus on data science, network science, and intelligent systems, current research interests include the following:



MOD Group Picture
MidWest Machine Learning Symposium, Chicago, IL

PhD Students


Aryal Milan

Research Interest:

  • Medical Image Processing
  • Whole Slide Image (WSI)
  • Digital Pathology with Graph Neural Networks
  • Generative AI in Digital Pathology
  • Unsupervised and Semi-Supervised Pre-training

Saba Heidari Gheshlaghi

Research Interest:

  • Machine Vision and Medical Image Processing
  • Generative Adversarial Networks
  • Neural Architecture Search 
  • Adversarial and OOD Robustness in GNN
  • Explainability in GNN

Dibaloke Chanda

Research Interest:

  • Representation Learning
  • Graph Neural Network
  • Explainability in Graph Neural Network
  • LLMs and LVMs

M.Sc. Students