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Patrick Soga

I'm a first-year CS PhD student at the University of Virginia advised by Prof. Jundong Li. My research interests are broadly in machine learning on graphs, geometric deep learning, and AI for science.

Previously, I did my undergrad at the University of Notre Dame where I studied CS & philosophy of math/logic and worked under professors Nitesh Chawla and David Chiang.

Publications

Bridging Graph Position Encodings for Transformers with Weighted Graph-Walking Automata
Patrick Soga and David Chiang
TMLR, 2023. arXivcode
Deep Ensembles for Graphs with Higher-Order Dependencies
Steven Krieg, William Burgis, Patrick Soga, and Nitesh Chawla
ICLR, 2023. arXivcode

Work Experience

  • Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society

    6.2021 - 5.2022
    Software Developer
    Web and mobile apps for health data management

  • FloVision Solutions

    6.2021 - 3.2022
    Contracted Software Engineer
    Dashboards, deep vision models, and data pipelines

  • Million Marker

    2.2021 - 5.2021
    Software Engineering Intern
    OCR for labels

  • RJ Reliance

    12.2020 - 2.2021
    Software Development Intern
    Mock data generation and dashboards

Education

  • University of Virginia

    8.2023 - present
    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    AI/ML for graphs, geometry, and scientific applications

  • University of Notre Dame

    8.2018 - 12.2022
    B.S. in Computer Science, B.A. in Philosophy
    Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa