Me

Hi there!

I’m a final-year PhD candidate at the Department of CSAI at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. I’m part of the consortium project InDeep: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Text and Sound, and happy to be supervised by Afra Alishahi, Willem Zuidema, and Grzegorz Chrupała.

My research focuses on interpreting deep neural language models (both written and spoken). I try to develop analysis methods to trace information flow and contextual interactions within these models, aiming to understand their inner workings and make that understanding useful for something such as improving model efficiency, controllability, and safety.

Background

I was a visiting researcher (Jan-Mar 2024) at ILCC, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, worked with Ivan Titov.

I completed my Master’s (2019-2021) in Artificial Intelligence at Iran University of Science and Technology, where my research revolved around the interpretation of pre-trained language models and the utilization of interpretability techniques to accelerate their inference time, 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.

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