I'm currently an assistant professor at ECE, University of Tehran. Before, I was a senior researcher at Microsoft Montreal, where I worked on natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning.

Before joining Microsoft in 2017, I did my PhD in computer science at CIS, University of Munich (LMU) and my MSc at Sharif University of Technology and BSc at University of Tehran.

As professional activities, I co-organized two workshops on Subword and Character level models in NLP (SCLeM) at EMNLP 2017 and NAACL 2018. I was Area Chair at ACL 2021 and Remote Presentation Co-chair at the same venue. I have also served as a program committee member at various NLP and AI conferences: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, CIKM, COLING, EACL, CoNLL, LREC.

News and Activities

  • Serving as an area chair for ACL 2024
  • Serving as an area chair for EMNLP 2023
  • A paper accepted at EMNLP 2023 (Findings)
  • Two papers accepted at ACL 2023
  • A paper accepted at EMNLP 2022 (about: analyzing word-overlap bias in NLI.)
  • A paper accepted at ACL 2022 (about: analyzing metaphorical information in pre-trained language models.)
  • A paper accepted at NAACL 2022 (about: a better interpretation method for Transformer models in NLP.)
  • A paper accepted at LREC 2022 (about: a new dataset (PerCQA) for community question answering.)
  • A paper accepted at Semantic Web Journal (about: a new question-answer matching model.)

Teaching

  • Foundation Models in Natural Language Processing (Graduate), University of Tehran, Falls 2021-2023.
  • Natural Language Processing (Graduate), University of Tehran, Spring 2021.
  • Introduction to Data Science (Undergrad), Spring 2024
  • Artificial Intelligence (Undergrad), University of Tehran, Spring 2021, Fall 2021.

Current students

  • MS: Samin Mehdizadeh, Hamed Amiri, Mostafa Masoudi, Sepehr Kamahi, Nikoo Naghavian, Danial Namazi, Mohammadreza Elmi
  • BS: Paria Khoshtab, Ali Akhgari, Hadi Babalou, Nesa Abbasi

Graduated students

  • MS: Mohsen Fayyaz, Ali Edalat, Sahar Rajabi, Milad Reisi, Ali Zolnour
  • BS: Ehsan Aghazadeh, Sara Tavakoli, Mahdiyar Aliakbar Alavi, Sina Pakseresht, Kasra Karaji, Sepiedeh Rahimian, Tanin Zeraati, Amirhossein Dabiri, Mohammadreza Bakhtiari, Shayan Vassef, Nilufar Mohammadi