Talks & Teaching

Tutorials

💥Upcoming: “Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models” at Interspeech 2025 conference, in Rotterdam. [materials]
A hands-on tutorial on “NLP & LLMs” for Dutch high school students, as part of their preparation for the 2nd International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (IOAI).
A series of short educational videos on how to open the Black Box of Large Language Models:
- Why it is crucial to track how Transformers mix information? [YouTube]
- How to best measure context-mixing in Transformers? [YouTube]
“Transformer-specific Interpretability”, at EACL 2024 conference, in Malta. [materials]

May 2023: “Introduction to Transformers”, undergraduate Computational Linguistic course at Tilburg University
Sep 2022: “Interpretability of Transformers”, graduate Advanced Deep Learning course at Tilburg University
May 2021: “Analysis & Interpretability in NLP”, jointly presented with Ali Modarressi, graduate NLP course at Khatam University [slides]

Winter 2021: Natural Language Processing, Khatam University [webpage]
2017-2019: Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Ferdowsi University
2016-2019: Computer Architecture, Ferdowsi University
2016-2017: Data Structures and Algorithms, Ferdowsi University
2016-2019: Basics of Computer Programming and Algorithms, Ferdowsi University

2024: Hamidreza Amirzadeh. MS. Topic: Interpretability (published at BlackboxNLP 2024)
2021: Mohsen Fayyaz, Ehsan Aghazadeh. BS. Topic: Interpretability (published at BlackboxNLP 2021)