Awarded the 2019 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship; Phi-3 series language models announced; Gave a talk at the 2023 NeurIPS Large Language Model Efficiency Challenge; Phi-2 blog post published.
Research Experience
Senior Researcher at MSR Redmond (Jan 2023 - present); Part-time Researcher at MSR Redmond (Jan 2022 - Jun 2022); Research Intern at MSR Redmond (Jun 2021 - Sep 2021); Apple AI Research Intern (Jun 2020 - Sep 2020); Apple Siri Search Intern (Jun 2019 - Sep 2019).
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (2023), Advisor: Prof. Farinaz Koushanfar, UC San Diego; M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (2019), Advisor: Prof. Farinaz Koushanfar, UC San Diego; B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (2017), Sharif University of Technology, Iran.
Background
Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, working on the 'Physics of Large Language Models'. Broadly interested in enhancing LLMs through new data sources, training regimens, and model architectures.