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My journey began at Iran University of Science and Technology, where I delved into Computer Engineering, focusing on Facial Expression Recognition and NLP Lexical Analysis. My career has been a blend of rigorous academic research and dynamic industry experience, marked by roles such as Graduate Research Assistant and Backend Team Leader. My work spans developing deep learning tasks, researching compositional generalization in multimodal systems, and leading misinformation detection projects.
News
Aug 2025
🎉 Excited to announce I'll be joining UCLA as a Visiting Graduate Researcher this Fall!
Jun 2025
💼 Thrilled to start my Summer Internship at Qualtrics XM!
Dec 2024
📄 Our paper NeSyCoCo: A Neuro-Symbolic Concept Composer for Compositional Generalization was accepted to AAAI 2025! See you in Philadelphia!
Feb 2024
📄 Our paper Using Persuasive Writing Strategies to Explain and Detect Health Misinformation was accepted to LREC-COLING 2024!
Oct 2023
📄 Our paper Syntax-Guided Transformers: Elevating Compositional Generalization and Grounding in Multimodal Environments was accepted to EMNLP 2023 Genbench Workshop!
Sep 2022
🏅 Honored to receive the Dr. Carl Page Sr Fellowship!
Selected Publications

NeSyCoCo: A Neuro-Symbolic Concept Composer for Compositional Generalization
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2025