Selected Publications

DIVA: Exploration and Validation of Hypothesized Drug-Drug Interactions.
Tabassum Kakar, Xiao Qin, Elke Rundensteiner, Lane Harrison, Sanjay K Sahoo, Suranjan De.
EuroViz, Computer Graphics Forum, 2019.
MEV: Visual Analytics for Medication Error Detection.
Tabassum Kakar, Xiao Qin, Cory M. Tapply, Oliver Spring, Derek Murphy, et al.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization Theory and Applications, 2019.
MeDIAR: Multi-Drug Adverse Reactions Analytics.
Xiao Qin, Tabassum Kakar, Susmitha Wunnava, Brian MacCarthy, et al.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) [Demo Paper], 2018.
DEVES: Interactive Signal Analytics for Drug Safety.
Tabassum Kakar, Xiao Qin, Susmitha Wunnava, Brian McCarthy, Andrew Schade, Huy Quoc Tran, et al.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2018.
MARAS: Signaling Multi-Drug Adverse Reactions.
Xiao Qin, Tabassum Kakar, Susmitha Wunnava, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Lei Cao.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2017.
For the full list of publications, please check my Google Scholar page.


Awards and Achievements

  • Young Investigator fellowship by WPI Women’s Impact Network. 2020-2021
  • ORISE Fellowship for research participation at the U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration. 2016-2019.
  • Graduate travel Award, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 2018 & 2019.
  • Data Science Citizen Award, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. May 2017.
  • 3rd place in Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE), Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Apr 2017.
  • Grace Hopper Travel Award, to attend the conference. Oct 2016.
  • Community Leadership Award, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. May 2016.
  • Fulbright Scholarship for fully funded Masters at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 2014-2016.
  • Gold Medalist for ranking first among 35 software engineers at GIK Institute Pakistan. 2011.
  • Lucky Cement Scholarship for fully funded B.S at GIK Institute Pakistan. 2007-2011.

Activities

  • Member of Data Science council at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. 2015-2020.
  • Reviewer at VLDB (2018), Applied Clinical informatics (2020), and AMIA (2020).
  • Volunteer at Boston Data Festival, Microsoft NERD Boston. Sep 2015.
  • Volunteer at Touch Tomorrow Event, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Jun 2015.