My Academic Journey and Achievements
- New Paper(s) Accepted Click for more 20251x COLING 2025Paper titled "Extending LLMs to New Languages: A Case Study of LLaMA and Persian Adaptation" has been accepted at COLING 2025.1x CAV 2025Paper titled "Supermartingale Certificates for Quantitative Omega-regular Verification and Control" has been accepted at CAV 2025.
- Fatima Fellowship Click for more 2024-2025Research FellowWorking on Multilingual and Multicultural Red Teaming of Large Language Models (LLMs).
The Fatima Fellowship is a program offered to PhD candidates in Computer Science or Machine Learning, designed to enhance their research skills and academic applications. - Singapore Management University Click for more 2024-2025Visiting Research Student[Aug 2024 - Present] Conducting research on Formal Methods to ensure the safety and trustworthiness of probabilistic systems, under the supervision of Prof. Djordje Zikelic.
- New Paper(s) Accepted Click for more 20241x LREC-COLING 2024Paper titled "Benchmarking Large Language Models for Persian: A Preliminary Study Focusing on ChatGPT" has been accepted at LREC-COLING 2024.3x SemEval@NAACL 2024(1) uTeBC-NLP at SemEval-2024 Task 9: Can LLMs be Lateral Thinkers?
(2) SLPL SHROOM at SemEval 2024 Task 06: A comprehensive study on models' ability to detect hallucinations
(3) Sharif-MGTD at SemEval-2024 Task 8: A Transformer-Based Approach to Detect Machine-Generated Text - Ranked 1st at Scientific Olympiad University Student Click for more 2023Awarded Gold Medal in Computer ScienceThis is a national competition held in several stages, where university students from across the country compete in their major fields. I participated as a Computer Engineering student from the University of Tehran, competing against both Computer Engineering and Computer Science students. I was proud to secure first place in the Computer Science section and receive the gold medal.
- Macquarie University Click for more 2023Research Assistant[Apr 2023 - Oct 2023] At the DataScience lab, under the supervision of Prof. Amin Beheshti.
- Sotoon Click for more 2022-2023Junior Software Engineer[Sep 2022 - Mar 2023] Junior Software Engineer in the Artificial Intelligence department.Site Reliability Engineering Intern[Jul 2022 - Sep 2022] Worked as an intern in the Cloud Computing department.Top Performer in Algorithm Design Competition[Apr 2022] Ranked among the top participants in an algorithm design competition organized by Sotoon.
- University of Tehran Click for more 2020-2025Ranked 3rd Among Computer Engineering Students[Third year] Ranked 3rd out of 91 Computer Engineering students in the ECE Department.Ranked 2nd Among Computer Engineering Students[Second year] Ranked 2nd out of 91 Computer Engineering students in the ECE Department.Research Assistant (UT-NLP Lab)[Apr 2023 - Present] Working under the supervision of Prof. Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, focusing on natural language processing (NLP) research.Research Assistant (Intelligent Systems Lab)[Summer 2023] Conducted research at the intelligent systems lab, under the supervision of Prof. Azadeh Shakery, focusing on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for hate-speech detection in low-resource languages, as a summer internship.Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering[2020-2025] Pursuing undergraduate studies in Computer Engineering at the University of Tehran.
- National University Entrance Exam Click for more 2020Top 0.1% Nationwide (49th)Ranked in the top 0.1% of participants (49th out of 116,000) in the Iranian National University Entrance Exam, among over one million participants.
- 1st Place in Robotics Competition Click for more 2014Teen's Robotics Competition, Isfahan[2014] Achieved 1st place in a robotics competition for teens held in Isfahan. This competition focused on simple and creative robot design, and challenged participants to build robots that would fight against one another and knock them out.