Dr. Mohammad Mohebbi

Academic Leadership & Mentorship

Dr. Mohammad Mohebbi is a Tenured Computer Science Professor and the Founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab at the University of North Georgia (UNG). With extensive experience bridging the gap between rigorous academic research and practical software engineering, Dr. Mohebbi has dedicated his career to empowering the next generation of innovators.

Through his leadership at the UNG AI Lab and his advanced mentorship programs, he has a proven track record of guiding student success. He has mentored over 118 students across Master theses, direct studies, capstone Senior projects, and university research programs. He has successfully guided these elite undergraduate students through complex computational biology and machine learning projects, resulting in peer-reviewed publications, advanced skill acquisition, and standout university applications.

🏛️ Founding Director, UNG AI Lab

Established the premier Artificial Intelligence research laboratory at the University of North Georgia.

💻 Expert Educator

Professor of Computer Science, specializing in Python, Machine Learning, and Data Structures.

🚀 Entrepreneur

Founder of Withly LLC, creating privacy-first enterprise AI infrastructure and student well-being software.

Research & Publications

Dr. Mohebbi's research sits at the cutting edge of Machine Learning and Structural Bioinformatics. His work focuses heavily on using Artificial Intelligence (multi-hypothesis learning, graph modeling, and k-tree models) to predict human microRNA targets, simulate RNA nucleotide interactions, and uncover genetic biomarkers.

His algorithms and peer-reviewed studies have been published in top-tier scientific journals, including the Journal of Computational Biology, Bioinformatics Journal, and MDPI Non-coding RNA.

Student Co-Authorship & Mentorship

As a passionate educator, Dr. Mohebbi frequently integrates his students directly into his research lab. He has a proven track record of mentoring students to such a high level of technical competency that they are published as official co-authors on peer-reviewed IEEE conference papers.

Selected Publications

Mohebbi M., Ding L., Malmberg R., and Cai L.
"Human MicroRNA Target Prediction via Multi-Hypotheses Learning." Journal of Computational Biology (JCB).
Mohebbi, M., Ding, L., Malmberg, R., Momany, C., Rasheed Kh., Cai, L.
"Accurate prediction of Human miRNA targets via graph modeling of miRNA-target duplex." Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
Ding, L., Xue, X., LaMarca, S., Mohebbi, M. et al.
"Accurate Prediction of RNA Nucleotide Interactions with Backbone k-Tree Model." Bioinformatics Journal.