Publications

You can also find my publications on my Google Scholar profile.

Conference Papers

S. Messaoud, S. Charni, E. Bouazza, A. Pourghasemi, H. Bensmail; Particles Don't Care About Z: Towards Scaling Entropy Estimation of Unnormalized Densities; ICML; 2026
Energy-based Models
E. Altinisik, S. Messaoud, T. Sencar, H. Sajjad, S. Chawla; Explaining the role of Intrinsic Dimensionality in Adversarial Training; ICML; 2025
ML Safety
S. Messaoud, B. Mokeddem*, Z. Xue*, L. Pang, B. An, H. Chen, S. Chawla; S2AC: Energy-Based Reinforcement Learning with Stein Soft Actor Critic; ICLR; 2024
Reinforcement Learning Energy-based Models
E. Altinisik, H. Sajjad, H.T. Sencar, S. Messaoud, S. Chawla; Impact of Adversarial Training on Robustness and Generalizability of Language Models; Findings of ACL; 2023
ML Safety
S. Messaoud, I. Lourentzou, A. Boughoula, M. Zehni, C. Zhai, Z. Zhao, A.G. Schwing; DeepQAMVS: Query-Aware Hierarchical Pointer Networks for Multi-Video Summarization; ACM SIGIR; 2021
Reinforcement Learning Computer Vision
S. Messaoud, M. Kumar, A.G. Schwing; Can We Learn Heuristics for Graphical Model Inference Using Reinforcement Learning?; CVPR; 2020 (oral)
Reinforcement Learning Energy-based Models Computer Vision
S. Messaoud, D.A. Forsyth, A.G. Schwing; Structural Consistency and Controllability for Diverse Colorization; ECCV; 2018
Energy-based Models Computer Vision
Y. Varatharajah, M. Younkin, X. Wang, A. Athreya, S. Messaoud, R. Iyer, N. Ertekin-Taner; Unsupervised Analysis of Transcriptomic Data for Demystifying the Cause of Alzheimer Disease; AAIC; 2017
Healthcare

E. Altinisik, S. Messaoud, H.T. Sencar, S. Chawla; A3T: Accuracy-Aware Adversarial Training; Machine Learning; 2023 (selected among top 3 papers)
ML Safety
S. Messaoud, N. Saeedloei, S. Shukla; Translating Discrete Time SIMULINK to SIGNAL; e-TI; 2015
Systems
D. Grundl, X. Zhang, S. Messaoud, C. Pfister, F. Demmel, M.S. Mommer, B. Wolf, M. Brischwein; Reaction–Diffusion Modelling for Microphysiometry on Cellular Specimens; Med. Biol. Eng. Comput.; 2013
Healthcare

M.V. Devarakonda, S. Messaoud, C.-H. Tsou; Medical Record Problem List Generation; U.S. Patent; 2021
Healthcare
S. Messaoud, T. Ogasawara; Accelerating Genomic Data Parsing on Field Programmable Gate Arrays; U.S. Patent; 2019
Healthcare Systems

Fanar Team (incl. S. Messaoud); Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform; arXiv:2501.13944; 2025
S. Messaoud; Toward More Scalable Structured Models; Ph.D. Dissertation, UIUC; 2021
Reinforcement Learning Energy-based Models Computer Vision
S. Messaoud; Translating Discrete Time SIMULINK to SIGNAL; M.S. Thesis, Virginia Tech; 2014
Systems
S. Messaoud; Optimal Architecture Synthesis for Aircraft Electrical Power Systems; M.S. Thesis, TU Munich / UC Berkeley; 2013
Systems
S. Messaoud; Reaction–Diffusion Modelling for Microphysiometry on Cellular Specimens; B.S. Thesis, TU Munich; 2011
Healthcare