Atif Khan
PhD Candidate
David R. Cheriton
School of Computer Science

University of Waterloo
200 University Ave W
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
N2L 3G1
Office: DC 3332
Phone: 519-888-4567 x33419
Email: atif.khan@uwaterloo.ca
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Research Group Affiliations
  • CrySP* (Cryptography, Security, and Privacy) Research Group
  • CHIL (Computational Health Informatics Lab)
  • WHISTL (Waterloo Health Information Systems and Technology Lab)
Teaching Invited Talks Guest Lectures & Seminars Journal Publications
  1. Atif Khan, John Doucette, Robin Cohen
    "Validation of an Ontological Medical Decision Support System for Patient Treatment Using a Repository of Patient Data: Insights into the Value of Machine Learning"
    ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) - Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for Health Informatics. Vol. 4, No. 4, 2013 (link). bib
Peer-reviewed Conference & Workshop Publications
  1. Mahtab Ahmed, Chahna Dixit, Robert E. Mercer, Atif Khan, Muhammad Rifayat Samee and Felipe Urra
    "Multilingual Semantic Textual Similarity using Multilingual Word Representations"
    IEEE - ICSC 2020 14th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC), California, USA, 2020 bib
  2. Mahtab Ahmed, Chahna Dixit, Robert E. Mercer, Atif Khan, Muhammad Rifayat Samee and Felipe Urra
    "Multilingual Corpus Creation for Multilingual Semantic Similarity Task"
    ELRA - LREC 2020Language Resources and Evaluation Conference bib
  3. Taraneh Khazae, Lu Xiao, Robert Mercer, and Atif Khan.
    "Privacy Preference Inference via Collaborative Filtering"
    AAAI - ICWSM 2016 The 10th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, Cologne Germany May 17-20 2106 bib
  4. Taraneh Khazae, Lu Xiao, Robert Mercer, and Atif Khan.
    "Privacy Behaviour and Profile Configuration in Twitter"
    MSM 2016 7th International Workshop on Modeling Social Media - Behavioral Analytics in Social Media, Big Data and the Web 2016, Montreal, Canada - April 2016 bib
  5. Taraneh Khazae, Lu Xiao, Robert Mercer, and Atif Khan.
    "Detecting Privacy Preferences from Online Social Footprints: A Literature Review"
    iSchools iConference 2016 Philadelphia, PA, USA - March 20-23, 2016 bib
  6. Taraneh Khazae, Lu Xiao, Robert Mercer, and Atif Khan.
    "Social Computing and Intelligence: Opportunities for the Public and the Enterprise"
    IBM CASCON 2015 IBM CASCON 2015, Markham, Ontario, Canada - November 2-4, 2015. bib
  7. Atif Khan and Ian McKillop.
    "Privacy-centric Access Control for Distributed Heterogeneous Medical Information Systems"
    IEEE ICHI 2013 International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2013, Philadelphia, PA, USA - September 09-11 2013. bib
  8. Atif Khan, John Doucette, Robin Cohen, Dan Lizotte.
    "Integrating Machine Learning into a Medical Decision Support System to Address the Problem of Missing Patient Data"
    IEEE ICMLA 2012 11th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Boca Raton, Florida, USA - December 12-15 2012. bib
  9. Atif Khan, John Doucette, Robin Cohen, Dan Lizotte.
    "A Hybrid Design for Medical Decision Support using Data Mining to Impute Missing Data"
    ACM HI-KDD 2012 - ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Workshop on Health Informatics, Beijing China - August 12-16 2012. bib
  10. John Doucette, Atif Khan, Robin Cohen, Dan Lizotte.
    "A Framework for AI-Based Clinical Decision Support that is Patient-Centric and Evidence-Based"
    NetMed 2012 - 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and NetMedicine, Montpellier France - August 27th 2012. bib
  11. John Doucette, Atif Khan, Robin Cohen.
    "A Comparative Evaluation of an Ontological Medical Decision Support System (OMeD) for Critical Environments"
    ACM IHI 2012 - 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium, Miami, Florida, USA - January 28-30, 2012 bib
  12. Atif Khan, John Doucette, Robin Cohen.
    "An Ontological Approach for Querying Distributed Heterogeneous Information Systems"
    CSWS2011 - The 3rd Canadian Semantic Web Symposium, Vancouver, Canada - August 5th, 2011 bib
  13. Atif Khan, Helen Chen, Ian McKillop.
    "A Semantic Approach to Secure Electronic Patient Information Exchange in Distributed Environments."*
    NEDSI 2011 - Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference Montreal, Canada - April 14-16, 2011 bib
    *received best paper award.
  14. Atif Khan, John Doucette, Changjiu Jin, Lijie Fu, Robin Cohen.
    "An Ontological Approach to Data Mining for Emergency Medicine."
    NEDSI 2011 - Northeast Decision Sciences Institute 2011 Annual Conference Montreal, Canada - April 14-16, 2011 bib
Posters & Presentations
  1. Taraneh Khazae, Lu Xiao, Robert Mercer, and Atif Khan
    " Modelling Social Privacy Behavior in Twitter Data"
    2nd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science Evanston, IL, USA 2016
  2. Atif Khan, John Doucette, and Robin Cohen
    "Holmes – Hybrid Ontological & Learning MEdical System Decision Support System"
    hSITE Annual Research Review (ARR) June 4 & 5, 2012 Montreal, QC 2012 (PDF, abstract)
  3. Atif Khan, Ian McKillop, Helen Chen
    "Consent-based Electronic Patient Information Exchange"
    Doctoral Consortium, IHI 2012- 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium - 2012 (PDF)
  4. John Doucette, Atif Khan, and Robin Cohen
    "A Comparative Evaluation of an Ontological Medical Decision Support System (OMeD)"
    IHI 2012- 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium - 2012 (PDF)
  5. Atif Khan, Ian McKillop, Helen Chen
    "Consent-based Electronic Patient Information Exchange"
    Annual Cheriton Symposium, University of Waterloo - 2011 (PDF)
  6. Atif Khan, Ian McKillop, Helen Chen
    "A Semantic Approach to Secure Exchange of Patient Information"
    Graduate Student Research Conference, University of Waterloo - 2011 (PDF)
  7. Atif Khan, John Doucette, Changjiu Jin, Lijie Fu, Robin Cohen
    "An Ontological Approach to Data-Mining for Emergency Medicine"
    hSite 2nd Annual Research Review - 2011 (PDF, abstract)
  8. Atif Khan, Sarah Nadi
    CONSENTIR - "A Policy Based Patient Consent & Access Management System"
    4th Annual Symposium of Health Technology - 2010 (PDF)
Other Academic Service Miscellaneous Scholarships
  1. Health System Performance Research Network (HSPRN) Graduate Research Scholarship - Fall 2012 (1 year)
  2. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) - Spring 2012 (2 years)
  3. President's Scholarship - Spring 2012 (2 years)
  4. Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) - Spring 2012 (1 year)
  5. Queen Elizabeth Ontario Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology (OGSST) - Winter 2012 (1 term)
  6. Cheriton Scholarship Award - Spring 2011 (2 years)
  7. Health System Performance Research Network (HSPRN) Graduate Research Scholarship - Winter 2011 (1 year)
  8. Ontario Graduate Scholarships in Science and Technology (OGSST) - Winter 2011 (1 term)
  9. MITACS Accelerate PhD Fellowship - Fall 2010 (1 year)
Awards
  1. hSite Best Poster Presentation Finalist Jun 2012
  2. Best Oral Presentation Award - Graduate Student Research Conference 2011
  3. Best Paper Award - NEDSI 2011
  4. Letter of Recognition for Teaching CS446 from Director School of Computer Science (David Taylor) - Fall 2010

Last updated on Aug 7th, 2016, by Atif Khan