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 University

• Graduate Research Assistant Sep 2024 - Aug 2025
  Math Department, Northeastern University

• Researcher 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