- May 2025: Three papers accepted to ACL main track
- April 2025: Paper 'The Leaderboard Illusion' available on Arxiv
- January 2025: Two papers accepted to ICLR main track
- December 2024: Paper 'Aya Expanse: Combining Research Breakthroughs for a New Multilingual Frontier' available on Arxiv
- September 2024: Paper 'Elo Uncovered' accepted to Neurips
- August 2024: Aya model paper received ACL Best Paper Award
- July 2024: Three papers accepted to ACL main track
Research Experience
- Staff Research Scientist at Cohere Labs
- NLP/ML research lead at Zeta Alpha Vector, working on smarter ways to discover and organize knowledge
Education
- PhD: Language Technology Lab (originally part of the ILPS group), University of Amsterdam, advised by Christof Monz and Arianna Bisazza
- M.Sc.: University of Tehran, majoring in Artificial Intelligence
- B.Sc.: Sharif University, majoring in Computer Engineering
Background
Broadly interested in all aspects of natural language understanding, particularly multilingual learning, data-conscious learning, robust and scalable models, compositionality, and evaluation. Currently working as a research scientist at Cohere Labs with Sara Hooker on complex problems in language understanding.