Education

  • Nov 2025 — 2028 (expected)

    PhD, Artificial Intelligence — JD-ICE

    Università degli Studi di Genova · Universidad Carlos III de Madrid · Queen Mary University of London

    Joint Doctorate in Interactive and Cognitive Environments, a three-university joint European doctorate entered through international competitive selection. Host lab: Elios Lab, DITEN, Genoa. Research on hardware-aware inference for vision–language models, vision transformers and large language models; precision and quantisation trade-offs; real-time edge deployment for automated-driving perception.

  • 2014 — 2018

    MSc, Software Engineering

    Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch — GPA 3.45/4.00

    Thesis: Optimizing the XGBoost algorithm for semi-supervised datasets (supervisor: Dr. Vahid Seydi) — the work that became the Springer IJMLC 2024 article. Emphasis on machine learning, advanced algorithms, advanced databases and distributed systems.

  • 2008 — 2013

    BSc, Software Engineering

    Islamic Azad University, Kashan Branch

Talks & presentations
  • Oral presentation, IEEE ICMLT 2025, Helsinki — Enhancing classification with semi-supervised deep learning using distance-based sample weights, 23–25 May 2025. The reference implementation went up on PyPI as semideep during the session.
  • Invited seminar, Institute for Cognitive and Brain Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, April 2020 — Deep learning and neural networks.
  • Departmental talks, Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch — microservice architecture (2016), MapReduce (2016), DES/3DES/AES cryptography (2015).
Presenting the SemiDeep paper at ICMLT 2025, with the semideep PyPI page projected on screen.
Presenting the paper at ICMLT 2025 — the freshly released semideep package on screen.
Group photo of ICMLT 2025 and CCCE 2025 attendees in the conference room in Helsinki.
Conference group photo, ICMLT / CCCE 2025, Helsinki.
Honours & awards
  • Admitted to the JD-ICE joint European doctorate (UniGe · UC3M · QMUL) through international competitive selection, 2025.
  • Second place, Startup Weekend Tehran, Amirkabir University of Technology, 2012.
  • Third place, University Basketball Cup, Kashan, 2011; member of the Vahdat basketball team, Premier League, 2008–2011.
Languages
English
Professional working proficiency — IELTS 7.0
Persian
Native
Azerbaijani Turkish
Native