CV
Education
- Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Sep 2019 - Dec 2024
Northeastern University
Advisor: Professor Jennifer Dy - Ph.D. in Mathematics Sep 2022 - Aug 2025
Northeastern University
Advisor: Professor Milen Yakimov - M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering Sep 2017 - Aug 2019
Northeastern University - B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering Sep 2012 - Aug 2017
Sharif University of Technology, With Minor in Mathematical science
Experience
Graduate Research Assistant Sep 2017 - Aug 2024
ECE Department, Northeastern UniversityGraduate Research Assistant Sep 2024 - Aug 2025
Math Department, Northeastern UniversityResearcher May 2016 - Aug 2016
Astar (Institute for Infocomm Research)Teaching Assistant Sep 2015 - May 2017
Lab assistance for Principles of Electronics Course, ECE Department of Sharif University
Honors And Awards
- Best Ph.D. Thesis Award 2025
Poisson Geometry of Flag Varieties and Representation Theory of their Quantum Deformations, Northeastern Univeristy Mathematics Department. - Ph.D. Spotlight 2024
Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Northeastern University. - ICLR Spotlight Paper 2022
Explanations of Black-Box Models based on Directional Feature Interactions. - NeurIPS Spotlight Paper 2021
Reliable Estimation of KL Divergence using a Discriminator in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space. - Singapore International Pre-Graduate Award (SIPGA) 2016
A*STAR. - Among the best B.Sc. Thesis 2017
Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology. - Ranked 58th (top 0.5%) in Iran University Entrance Exam 2012
Service and leadership
- Summer School Organizer 2025
Machine Learning for Mathematicians and Physicists Summer School, Northeastern University - Conference Reviewer
- Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2025
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2024
- Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021
- Society for Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2021
Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, MATLAB, C/C++, Maccaulay2, SageMath
- Data Science & Machine Learning: PyTorch, pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, LaTeX
- Version Control: Git
