Scholar
Ehsaneddin Asgari
Google Scholar ID: lIVvIFsAAAAJ
Scientist at QCRI, UC Berkeley PhD Alum., Prev@ Helmholtz Center, MIT-CSAIL, MIT-BCS, LMU, EPFL, SUT
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,166
H-index
17
i10-index
26
Publications
20
Co-authors
13
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- PhD dissertation: 'Life Language Processing: Deep Learning-based Language-agnostic Processing of Proteomics, Genomics/Metagenomics, and Human Languages'
- - Broad research interests spanning Computational Biology, Metagenomics, Computational Literature, Natural Language Processing, Digital Humanities, Deep Learning, and more
Research Experience
- - Currently an NLP lead data scientist at the AI Innovation center of Volkswagen Group at Data:Lab Munich and a post-doctoral researcher at Helmholtz Center for Infection Research
- - During his PhD, collaborated closely with the Deep NLP group at the University of Munich (LMU) and the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, directed by Prof. Hinrich Schütze and Prof. Alice McHardy respectively
Education
- - PhD: University of California, Berkeley, Applied Science and Technology with Designated Emphasis in Computational Data Science and Engineering, August 2014 - August 2019, supervised by Professor Mofrad
- - Second Master's: University of California, Berkeley, Applied Science and Technology, 2016
- - First Master's: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL), Computer Science, August 2011 - October 2014, master's thesis completed at CSAIL, MIT, supervised by Professors Mark Finlayson and Patrick Winston
- - Bachelor's: Sharif University of Technology, Computer Engineering, January 2008 - July 2011
Background
- Research interests include Language Processing, Bioinformatics, and Digital Humanities. Since August 2014, I have been the director of the Life Language Processing project under the supervision of Professor Mofrad at the Cell Biomechanics Laboratory at UC Berkeley.
