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 mainly focuses on machine learning for natural language and speech processing, aiming to improve model efficiency, interpretability, and controllability.

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)