Scholar
Zhivar Sourati
Google Scholar ID: giqWNAwAAAAJ
Graduate Research Assistant, University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
Citations
281
H-index
11
i10-index
11
Publications
20
Co-authors
11
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- No specific details provided regarding publications or awards.
Research Experience
- Conducted Ph.D. research at USC, initially working with Dr. Filip Ilievski on cognitively inspired methods for reasoning in language models. Later, under the guidance of Dr. Morteza Dehghani, expanded focus to explore the interaction between linguistic behavior and emerging forms of human–AI collaboration from a sociolinguistic perspective.
- Also collaborated with Dr. Dan Roth (Oracle) on multi-modal retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), Dr. Fred Morstatter (ISI) on factors influencing LLMs’ decision-making, and Dr. Don Tuggener and Dr. Mark Cieliebak (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) on dialogue summarization.
Education
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, supervised by Filip Ilievski and Morteza Dehghani.
Background
- Research focuses on the reasoning capabilities of language models from a cognitive psychology perspective, particularly analogical reasoning and prototype-based reasoning, to improve accuracy, robustness, and interpretability in NLP tasks. Also examines the broader sociolinguistic and cognitive dynamics of human–AI collaboration.
Miscellany
- Further research interests include NLP, social network analysis, knowledge graphs, and data mining, focusing on interdisciplinary problems at the intersection of computer science, psychology, linguistics, and the social sciences.
