Curriculum Vitae Updated May 2026

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden (2022-2027)
    Thesis: Explainability and Uncertainty in Deep Learning for Computer Vision.
    Supervisor: Prof. Hossein Azizpour, Co-supervisor: Prof. Kevin Smith
    WASP Affiliated PhD student.
  • MSc in Data Science
    Shahid Beheshti University Tehran, Iran (2019-2021)
    Thesis: On oversmoothing in Graph Neural Networks.
    Cumulative GPA: 3.90/4.0
    Ranked 1st among students in the same batch.
  • BSc Applied Mathematics
    Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran (2015-2019)
    Cumulative GPA 3.86/4.0
    Ranked 2nd among students in the same batch.
    Ranked 7th in the national university entrance exam (Konkur) of Masters studies.
    Direct admission to Master's program at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad based on merit.
  • Image Processing and Optimization with MATLAB Summer School
    Professional Technical Education of Eram Mashhad, Iran (2015)
    Certificate in Image Processing with MATLAB.
    Skills acquired: Image processing techniques, edge detection, and optimization algorithms using MATLAB.

Academic Experience

Technical Experience
  • SLURM Compute Cluster Adminstration
    Maintenance duities supervised by Dr. Matteo Gamba (2023-2027)
    Renovation of The Cluster Room
  • Gas Pipeline Maintenance Via Data Mining
    A project aimed at predictive maintenance for National Iran's Gas Company supervisied by Prof. Alireza Fereidunian (2021-2022)
  • Research Internsip on Approximate Similarty Search
    Due to Covid pandemic (2020-2021), I worked remotely at Shomara on approximate nearest neighbor search algorithms, e.g. (FAISS). I did a literature study and classification of methods, and compared different methods, in practice. This was presented as a technical report, with quick-start guides for future solutions at Shomara.
  • Open Source Project: for Training Object Detection Models on Persian License Plates
    A long-term open-source project (2019-2020) aimed at making training object detection or segmentation models easier for Persian fonts by generating synthetic images of Persian license plate with data augmentation.
  • C# Unity Game Developer
    At SodaFanavar game company in Mashhad managed by Prof. Rasoul Ramezanian (2018-2019)
    Key responsibilities included source code optimization and development.
Awards & Grants

Awards & Grants

  • Gold Reviewer Award at ICML 2026
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2026
    I received the Gold Reviewer Award at ICML 2026 for an outstanding contribution as a reviewer!
  • Affiliated WASP PhD Student
    Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program, Sweden 2023
    Affiliation with the WASP program, supports PhD students to take courses from the WASP Graduate School, take part in WASP activities and events such as study trips and WASP Winter Conference.
  • WASP Study Trip
    A study trip organized by the WASP Graduate School, 2024
    Selected to participate in a study trip to Zurich, Switzerland, where I had the opportunity to visit leading research institutions and companies in the field of AI and autonomous systems, including ETH Zurich, Zurich AI Center, Anybotics, and Walt Disney Research.
  • Merit-based Direct Admission to M.Sc. At Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
    Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran 2019
    Received direct admission to the M.Sc. program in Applied Mathematics at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad based on academic merit, without the need for an entrance exam.