About Me

I am a Masters student at Simon Fraser University. I received my Bachelors degree from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in 2022. My primary research interests include Computer Vision, 3D Vision, and their applications in robotics and self-driving cars. During my studies, I have enjoyed working with Prof. Vincent Lepetit, Prof. Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, and Prof. Sauleh Eetemadi on various projects.

• Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Institute of Computer Graphics and Vision (ICG), Graz, Austria

Research Intern Under the Supervision of Prof. Vincent Lepetit

May 2021 - March 2022

In May 2021, I joined ICG, TU Graz as a research intern, supervised by Prof. Vincent Lepetit. 3D Vision, particularly scene understanding, has always been a hot research area as it has various applications in many areas such as Augmented Reality. In this project, we extend the previous method on scene understanding that adapted the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm, originally designed to learn to play games of high-state complexity, and reconstruct general 3D room layouts from a color image and obtain accurate room layouts. We also show that our differentiable renderer can easily be extended for rendering 3D planar polygons and polygon embeddings. Our method shows high performance on the Matterport3D-Layout dataset, without introducing hard constraints on room layout configurations. The paper has been submitted to TPAMI Special Section on the Best Papers of ICCV2021. The pre-print is available on arXiv:2207.03204 and the source code is available on github.

• Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS), Tehran, Iran

Research Assistant Under the Supervision of Prof. Eetemadi, Prof. Pilehvar

February 2021 - June 2022

In February 2021, I started working on a research project at TeIAS under the joint supervision of Prof. Pilehvar and Prof. Eetemadi. Contemporary state-of-the-art language models, such as BERT and GPT-3, have a massive number of trainable parameters, resulting in lower inference time and large memory footprints. Recent research has proved model compression methods to be effective. This project aims to tackle this problem and design a compression algorithm that results in a model that jointly benefits parameter efficiency and low latency during inference time.

• NLP Reading Group, Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS), Tehran, Iran

Research Intern Under the Supervision of Prof. Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

May 2020 - April 2021

In May 2020, I joined Prof. Pilehvar's NLP reading group. The main objective of this group was to gain intuition about how to carry out research, mainly around NLP and Machine Learning (particularly Deep Learning). Our tasks included reading papers and writing summaries, and discussing ideas. We also initiated a website that aims at listing datasets and tools for research and development in Farsi NLP.

• Dadmatech, Tehran, Iran

Natural Language Processing Intern

September 2020 - December 2020

Between September and December 2020, I was an intern at Dadmatech, A large start-up that develops AI-based text processing tools for Farsi text. Informal Farsi was formed, over a long time, when people started changing words and verbs while talking, and it gradually found its way to Farsi text as well. As a result, there are no rules to convert an informal Farsi text to a standard text. During my time at Dadmatech, I worked on developing a neural-based solution to convert informal Farsi text to normal text.

Some of my experiences as a teaching assistant:

• Fall 2023
  • Introduction to Computer Science and Programming (Python) - Prof. Nicholas Vincent
• Spring 2021
  • Computational Intelligence - Prof. Nasser Mozayani
• Fall 2020
  • Artificial Intelligence - Prof. Eetemadi - Prof. Pilehvar
  • Algorithms Design - Prof. Reza Entezari-Maleki
• Spring 2020
  • Artificial Intelligence - Prof. Mohammad Taher Pilehvar
  • Algorithms Design - Prof. Sauleh Eetemadi
• Fall 2019
  • Data Structures - Prof. Sauleh Eetemadi
• Spring 2019
  • Advanced Programming - Prof. Sauleh Eetemadi

Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada

M.Sc. in Professional Computer Science - Visual Computing Concentration
September 2023 - April 2025 (expected)

Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering
September 2017 - June 2022

• Relevant coursework:
  • On campus: Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computational Intelligence, Signals and Systems, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Engineering Probability and Statistics, Research Method and Presentation
  • Online: Build Basic GANs, Deep Learning Specialization, Convolutional Neural Networks, Sequence Models, Algorithms on Graphs, Algorithms on Strings