Hi there!
I’m a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University, co-advised by Afra Alishahi and Grzegorz Chrupała.
My main research interest lies in the area of Deep Learning in Natural Language Processing, with a particular interest in analyzing and interpreting neural language models.
Previously, I completed my Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence at Iran University of Science and Technology, where I focused mostly on interpretability and accelerating inference of pre-trained language models under the supervision of Mohammad Taher Pilehvar.
Before that, I got my Bachelor’s 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.
News
- Nov 2021: Moving to the Netherlands to join the consortium project InDeep: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Text and Sound.
- Sep 2021: 🎓 Successfully defended my Master’s thesis titled “Interpretability and Transferability of Linguistic Knowledge in Pre-trained Language Models”.
- Sep 2021: 🥳 Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2021 (main conference and BlackboxNLP).
- Jun 2021: Invited talk at Cambridge/Cardiff Workshop in Natural Language Processing.
- May 2021: Gave a joint guest lecture, with Ali, on Interpretability as a part of the graduate NLP course at Khatam University. [slide]
- Apr 2021: Our pre-print intepretability work is ready! Exploring the Role of BERT Token Representations to Explain Sentence Probing Results.