Hi there!
I’m an AI Researcher & Developer at Whispp, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at ILLC, University of Amsterdam, happy to work with Ivan Titov.
My research focuses on machine learning for natural language and speech processing, with a particular interest in understanding how language models work internally and how that understanding can make them more efficient, controllable, and useful in practice.
Background
I completed my PhD (2021-2025) in the Research Center Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI) at Tilburg University, as a member of InDeep consortium project, supervised by Afra Alishahi, Willem Zuidema, and Grzegorz Chrupała.
I was a visiting researcher (Jan-Mar 2024) at ILCC, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, worked with Ivan Titov.
I got my Master’s (2019-2021) in Artificial Intelligence at Iran University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Mohammad Taher Pilehvar.
Before that, I got my Bachelor’s (2014-2019) in Computer Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. During that, I was working under the supervision of Ahad Harati as a team member of the Nexus RoboCup Simulation Team.
Public Activities
- Workshop Organizer
- BlackboxNLP (co-located with EMNLP 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026)
- Tutorial Instructor
- Tutorial on “Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models” at Interspeech 2025 conference
- Tutorial on “Transformer-specific Interpretability” at EACL 2024 conference
- Area Chair / Meta-reviewer
- “Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP” track for ACL Rolling Review 2025
- “Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Spoken Language Understanding” track for ACL Rolling Review 2025
- Session Chair
- Speech Processing oral session at ACL 2025, Vienna
- Program Committee / Reviewer
- Conferences: EMNLP (2022, 2023), ACL 2023, EACL 2023, ACL Rolling Review (2022, 2023)
- Workshops: Actionable Interpretability (ICML 2025)
- Others
- I organized InDeep Journal Club (2022-2024)