Pouya Pezeshkpour
Scholar

Pouya Pezeshkpour

Google Scholar ID: sjY8zjUAAAAJ
University of California, Irvine
Interpretability and AnalysisKnowledge Representation and ReasoningNLPMachine LearningInformation Theory
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,272
 
H-index
16
 
i10-index
17
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
8
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Co-organised Explainable Graph-Based Machine Learning workshop at AKBC 2021.
  • Co-organised Knowledge Bases and Multiple Modalities workshop at AKBC 2019 and 2020.
  • Reviewer at NeurIPS, NAACL (2021), ICLR, AAAI, EMNLP (2020), etc.
  • Published 'Mixed Signals: Decoding VLMs' Reasoning and Underlying Bias in Vision-Language Conflict' at EMNLP (Findings) 2025.
  • Published 'From Single to Multi: How LLMs Hallucinate in Multi-Document Summarization' at NAACL (Findings) 2025.
Research Experience
  • Research Internship at Semantic Machines, Microsoft Research, summer 2021.
  • Research Internship at Siri Knowledge group, Apple, summer 2020.
  • Research Internship at Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, summer 2019.
  • Research Internship at Fujitsu Laboratories of America, summer 2018.
  • Research Internship at Chinese University of Hong Kong, summer 2014.
Education
  • PhD student in Machine Learning at the University of California Irvine, advised by Prof. Sameer Singh.
Background
  • Main area of interest includes Natural Language Understanding, Interpretability and Analysis of Models, and Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.
Miscellany
  • Was a Research Scientist at Megagon Labs; Volunteer at NeurIPS 2018 and AKBC 2020.