Published multiple papers such as 'DeepSeek-R1 Thoughtology: Let's think about LLM Reasoning' (ArXiv), 'Exploiting Instruction-Following Retrievers for Malicious Information Retrieval' (ACL Findings 2025), etc.
Research Experience
Researcher, Jan 2022 - Present, McGill NLP & Mila, Montreal, Canada, supervised by Prof. Siva Reddy; Machine Learning Research Intern, May 2024 - Sep 2024, Borealis AI, Montreal, Canada, supervised by Siqi Liu and Eric Jiawei He; Researcher, Oct 2018 - Feb 2021, Machine Learning Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, supervised by Prof. Mahdieh Soleymani; Research Intern, Jun 2020 - Aug 2020, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern, Germany, supervised by Prof. Manuel Gomez Rodriguez; Software Intern, Jul 2018 - Sep 2018, Cafe Bazaar, Tehran, Iran.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2022 - present, McGill University, Montreal, Canada; M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, 2018 - 2021, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; B.Sc. in Software Engineering, 2014 - 2018, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; Diploma in Mathematics and Physics Discipline, 2014, Farzanegan2 High School, Tehran.
Background
Currently a PhD student at the McGill NLP research group and Mila, under the supervision of Prof. Siva Reddy. Previously an ML Research Intern at Borealis AI. Mainly interested in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing, particularly retrieval-augmented generation, large language models-based text representation, and adaptation.
Miscellany
Interests include Karate, Embroidery, Cross-Stitching, and Digital Painting.