Honors & Awards

• Selected for the Graduate Support Initiative (GSI) Award and the MUSIC Program Graduate Student Award, receiving UBC-funded support recognizing research excellence and graduate academic achievement.   (2026, Canada)
• Selected for the Konrad Zuse School (ELIZA) Scholarship, to join a graduate school of excellence connecting German units of the European ELLIS network and Germany's leading experts in machine learning-driven AI.   (2025, Germany)
• Ranked 10th among nearly 165,000 participants in the nationwide University Entrance Exam (Konkour) in the Mathematics Branch, securing a fully funded B.Sc. (tuition fee waiver) period in Iran.   (Summer 2019)
• Admitted to Allameh Helli Middle School, among nearly 80,000 students under the supervision of the National Organization for Developing Exceptional Talents (NODET).   (Summer 2013)
• Ranked in the top 9% of Computer Engineering students based on total GPA at Sharif University of Technology (16 out of 190).   (Winter 2024)

Working Experience

The University of British Columbia & Vector Institute

Research Assistant

• Developing novel multimodal learning and reinforcement learning methods to improve prostate cancer detection using ultrasound images.

Teaching Assistant

• Served as a Teaching Assistant for multiple courses, delivering mini-lectures, leading lab sessions, mentoring project teams, and grading.

Sep. 2025 – Present

Saarland University

Research Assistant

• Designing contrastive learning-based methods to enhance semantic gesture understanding and representation from video, with a publication in preparation.

June 2025 – Sep. 2025

Supervisor: Prof. Vera Demberg

Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)

Remote Research Assistant

• Authored surveys on multimodal RAG and generative AI for animated characters, highlighting gaps and future directions.
• Advancing Arabic vision-language models beyond state-of-the-art and introducing a benchmark for practical VLM evaluation.

July 2024 – Sep. 2025

Supervisor: Dr. Ehsaneddin Asgari

Yektanet Technology Company

Software Engineer

• Spearheaded the implementation of numerous features in a large-scale service.
• Provided mentorship to several new software engineers, fostering their professional growth.
• Undertook Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) tasks, including server maintenance, to ensure optimal site performance.
• Designed and implemented a comprehensive Applicant Tracking System (ATS) from scratch personalized for the company.
• Devised innovative methods for storing extensive data to enhance system efficiency.
• Collaborated with various databases and architectures, including Redis master-slave, to efficiently handle a high volume of requests per second.

Oct. 2020 – Oct. 2021

Volunteer Activities

Reviewer — ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology & MICCAI 2026

Conducted peer reviews for ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology and MICCAI 2026, evaluating technical novelty, methodology, and experimental validity of submitted manuscripts.

Fall 2025

Volunteer Staff at ACL 2025 Conference

Assisted in organizing the conference by coordinating presentations and poster sessions, and supporting attendee registration.

Summer 2025

Career Guidance Session at Allameh Helli High School

Conducted an informative session for students at Allameh Helli High School, discussing various aspects of computer engineering. The session aimed to provide students with a deeper understanding of the field, helping them gauge their passion for computer engineering and make informed decisions about their potential career paths.

Spring 2023

Contributed to the Creation of Posts on Persian Medium and Development of a Persian Wikipedia Page for Test-driven Development

Contributed to the expansion of Test-Driven Development (TDD) knowledge, a software development approach that has revolutionized the way we write and test code. I have contributed to a blog post on Virgool, a Persian-language platform dedicated to technology knowledge sharing (similar to Medium). In addition, I have enriched the Persian Wikipedia page on TDD by adding comprehensive information and ensuring that the content is accurate and up-to-date with the help of a group of students. The pages can be accessed at the following links: Virgool Post and TDD Wikipedia Page.

Spring 2023

Contributed to the Creation and Development of Persian Wikipedia Pages for Key Machine Learning Concepts

Contributed to the expansion of machine learning knowledge in the Persian language by creating a Wikipedia page for the concept of Knowledge Distillation and developing an existing page on Autoencoders. These pages serve as valuable resources for Persian-speaking individuals interested in these topics. The pages can be accessed at the following links: Knowledge Distillation Page and Autoencoder Page.

Fall 2022

Markov Decision Processes Lecture Note (Note Link)

Authored a comprehensive lecture note on Markov Decision Processes for the AI Group’s website at our university, providing a self-learning resource for individuals interested in this concept.

Fall 2021

Technical Presentation & Workshop Hosting at Sharif University

Conducted a presentation and workshop on Django and the REST architectural style for students at Sharif University. This session provided insights into the responsibilities of software engineers and back-end developers and offered an introduction to the basic concepts of Django framework.

Summer 2021

ICPC Staff Member

Served as a staff member in preparing for the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), contributing to the successful execution of the event.

Spring 2020