Danial’s Website

I am graduate student at Michigan State University working at HLR lab, specializing in the fascinating intersection of Vision and Language within Computer Science.
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

Oct 2026
🎉 Our paper SATURN: Symbolic Spatial Reasoning for Multi-Perspective Grounding has been accepted to EMNLP 2026! We have released the code and the 3D FORCE benchmark, and the paper is available on arXiv.
Apr 2026
🏆 Our paper NePTune won the Best Paper Award at MSLD 2026 (Midwest Speech and Language Days)!
Jan 2026
🎉 Our paper NePTune has been accepted to ICLR 2026!
Aug 2025
🗣️ I'll be presenting my work NePTune as an oral presentation at the SpaVLE (Space in Vision-Language Embodied AI) Workshop at NeurIPS 2025. See you all in San Diego!
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!