Papers accepted: 'Jointly Training and Pruning CNNs via Learnable Agent Guidance and Alignment' at CVPR 2024; 'Compressing Image-to-Image Translation GANs Using Local Density Structures on Their Learned Manifold' at AAAI 2024; 'EffConv: Efficient Learning of Kernel Sizes for Convolution Layers of CNNs' at AAAI 2023; 'Interpretations Steered Network Pruning via Amortized Inferred Saliency Maps' at ECCV 2022.
Research Experience
Summer 2023 research scientist intern at Adobe Research, Seattle, working on architectural efficiency of diffusion models, mentored by Yan Kang, Yuchen Liu, Richard Zhang, and Zhe Lin; Deep Learning Intern at Enlitic in Summer 2021.
Education
Ph.D. Student at the Computer Science Department, University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Heng Huang; previously a Ph.D. student at ECE Department, University of Pittsburgh; Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) from University of Tehran, working with Dr. Reshad Hosseini on 3D Reconstruction of Symmetric Structures, member of Computational Audio-Vision Lab.
Background
Research interests include generative modeling, making deep neural networks efficient and deployable in real-world applications, and automated medical image analysis.
Miscellany
Conference Reviewer: KDD 2020, CIKM 2021, ICLR 2023, CVPR 2023, ICCV 2023, AAAI 2023, MICCAI 2024, ECCV 2024; Journal Reviewer: TNNLS 2023, American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG) 2020.