Papers accepted to IEEE BigData.
Three papers, on AI in finance, product demand analysis, and public health informatics, were accepted to IEEE BigData, respectively.
About Me
Assistant Professor @ Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | Former Director of Machine Learning @ Moody’s Analytics | LLM | Predictive Analytics | AI Solutions
Dr. Taoran Ji is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he focuses on developing innovative AI solutions for complex real-world challenges. He currently leads two active NSF-funded projects, supporting research across multiple domains, including time-series forecasting, event detection and forecasting, financial market analysis, event impact analysis, natural language processing, and large language models.
Dr. Ji is an active contributor to the academic community, serving as an author, reviewer, and organizer for top-tier machine learning conferences. Prior to his academic career, he was Director of Machine Learning at Moody’s Analytics, where he led efforts in credit risk evaluation and adverse media screening through advanced sequential data modeling.
Recent News
Project funded by the National Science Foundation.
This project leverages large language models (LLMs) and graph neural networks (GNNs) to advance the multilingual analysis of complex speech patterns.
Project funded by the National Science Foundation.
This project aims to understand emerging areas of science and technology (S&T) and their regional and national impacts on society and the economy.j
Selected Publications
(2024).
CryptoPulse: Short-Term Cryptocurrency Forecasting with Dual-Prediction and Cross-Correlated Market Indicators.
In BigData 2024.
(2024).
AMA-LSTM: Pioneering Robust and Fair Financial Audio Analysis for Stock Volatility Prediction.
In NAACL 2024.
(2024).
Don’t Go To Extremes: Revealing the Excessive Sensitivity and Calibration Limitations of LLMs in Implicit Hate Speech Detection.
In ACL 2024.
(2023).
Bridging the Gap between Spatial and Spectral Domains: A Unified Framework for Graph Neural Network.
ACM Computing Surveys.
Meet Our Team
PhD Students
| Name | Date Joined | Expected Graduation Date |
|---|---|---|
| Elnur Adl Zarabi | August 2024 | TBD |
| Amit Kumar | June 2025 | TBD |
Master’s Students
| Name | Date Joined | Expected Graduation Date |
|---|---|---|
| Abhishek Joshi | January 2024 | May 2025 |
Teaching
COSC-6354: Artificial Intelligence
COSC-6334: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
COSC-6336: Database Management Systems