Experience

  1. Postdoctoral Researcher

    Department of Computer Science, Aalto University
    Conducting research on discrete representation learning in DNNs
    Co-advising PhD thesis and supervising summer interns
    Teaching Assistant for introduction to Artificial Intelligence course
  2. Visiting Researcher

    Inria, France
    Developed speaker anonymization algorithms in DNN-based speech processing tools.
  3. Doctoral Researcher

    Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University
    Developed novel techniques from scratch that improves codebook learning enabling end-to-end training of DNNs, interpretability in DNNs, and speech privacy
    Co-advising MSc students
    Teaching assistant

Education

  1. Ph.D.

    Aalto University, Finland
    Thesis: Vector Quantization in Deep Neural Netwroks for Speech and Image Processing
    Supervisor: Prof. Tom Bäckström
    GPA: 5 / 5
    Published six first-author papers in TMLR, IEEE Access, Interspeech and ICASSP.
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  2. M.Sc.

    Babol Noshirvani University, Iran
    Thesis: Adaptive Image Watermarking
    Supervisor: Prof. Ali Aghagolzadeh
    GPA: 4.5 / 5
    Published one first-author paper in journal of Expert Systems with Applications.
  3. B.Sc.

    Babol Noshirvani University, Iran
    Thesis: Simulation and Assembling of the Injection Pump for Electrospinning Machine
    Supervisor: Prof. Mehdi Ezoji
    GPA: 4 / 5
Skills & Hobbies
Programming
Python/PyTorch/TensorFlow
C/C++
MATLAB
R
Aim, Weights & Biases, TensorBoard
Matplotlib/Altair/Seaborn
Numpy/Pandas/SciPy
Git
CUDA
VS Code/PyCharm/Jupyter
Shell scripting
LaTeX
Knowledge
Machine Learning (supervised/unsupervised/self-supervised learning, classification, clustering)
Deep Neural Networks (Transformers, CNNs, GANs, VQ-VAEs, GNNs, RNNs, LSTM)
Awards
Doctoral Research Excellence Scholarship
Nokia Foundation ∙ September 2023
Doctoral Research Excellence Scholarship
Walter Ahlström Foundation ∙ February 2024
Research Visit Grant
Foundation for Aalto University Science and Technology ∙ May 2024
Research Visit Grant
Ernst Wirtzen Fund ∙ December 2023
Languages
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English
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Persian (Native)