Jafar Bakhshaliyev

Jafar Bakhshaliyev

PhD Candidate in Computer Science

Data Science Group

University of Hildesheim

About

I am currently pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Hildesheim, where I work in the Data Science Group. My research focuses on spiking neural networks for transformer architectures, time series forecasting and classification, and practical machine learning for industry applications.

I hold an M.Sc. in Data Analytics (University of Hildesheim), an M.Sc. in Financial Mathematics (The University of Texas at Dallas), and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering (Bilkent University).

Open to research areas:

  • Spiking Neural Networks
  • Time Series Forecasting
  • Computer Vision
  • Graph Neural Networks

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Selected Publications


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Temporal Patch Shuffle (TPS): Leveraging Patch-Level Shuffling to Boost Generalization and Robustness in Time Series Forecasting
Jafar Bakhshaliyev, Johannes Burchert, Niels Landwehr, Lars Schmidt-Thieme
arXiv • 2026
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Wave-Mask/Mix: Exploring Wavelet-Based Augmentations for Time Series Forecasting
Dona Arabi, Jafar Bakhshaliyev, Ayse Coskuner, Kiran Madhusudhanan, Kami Serdar Uckardes
arXiv • 2024

Selected Projects


Clinical ML for Neurodevelopmental Disorder

Clinical ML for Neurodevelopmental Disorder

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany

Arcelik project

Dishwasher Plant Improvement

Arcelik Inc., Turkey

MaxDecisions project

Credit Risk Modeling

MaxDecisions Inc., USA

Experience & Collaborations


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