About me
I am a Ph.D. student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT, and I am affiliated with Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (MIT LIDS). I am very fortunate to be advised by Professor Patrick Jaillet in the Online Optimization and Learning group and by Professor Gabriele Farina in the Computational Game Theory group.
My research interests broadly encompass machine learning theory, statistics, and optimization. Currently, I am focused on computational-statistical trade-offs, the understanding of overparameterized models (including non-convex optimization and generalization), learning dynamics in games and causality.
Prior to MIT, I earned a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. During my undergrad, I was a research assistant at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) under supervision of Professor Bernhard Schölkopf and Professor Stefan Bauer. Besides, I spent a couple of months working with Professor Martin Jaggi at EPFL.
Here is a link to my google scholar.
Academic Services
- Organizer for Machine Learning for Drug Discovery (MLDD) ICLR 2022 Workshop
- Organizer for GSK.ai GeneDisco Challenge for target identification in drug discovery in 2022
Teaching Experiences
- Sharif University of TechnologyTeaching Assistant
- High Dimensional Probability and StatisticsFall 2021-2022
- Robust Machine LearningFall 2020-2021
- Design of AlgorithmsFall 2019-2020 & Fall 2020-2021Head Teacher Assistant (Fall 2020-2021)
- Linear AlgebraSpring 2019-2020
- Discrete StructuresSpring 2018-2019 & Spring 2019-2020Head Teacher Assistant (Spring 2019-2020)
- Artificial IntelligenceSpring 2018-2019
- Data Structures and AlgorithmsFall 2018-2019
Leadership Roles & Activities
- Social chair of Persian Students Association at MIT
- Officer of Events committee in Ashdown House Graduate Community at MIT