About me

I am currently an Applied Scientist at Microsoft Germany, where my work focuses on optimizing the efficiency of machine learning models, particularly large language models, and exploring active learning techniques.

Previously, I was a PhD student at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich supervised by professor Hinrich Schuetze. During my PhD, my research initially centered on multilingual large language models, specifically exploring their applications for low-resource languages, representation learning, and cross-lingual transfer. I investigated how high-resource language representations can enhance downstream tasks in low-resource languages and how the availability of multilingual data can improve the understanding of each language. As my PhD progressed, I shifted my focus towards improving the parameter efficiency and interpretability of these models.

Before starting a PhD at LMU, I was a member of Intelligent Information System Lab Laboratory at University of Tehran, as a master student working under supervision of professor Azadeh Shakery. During my time there, my research centered on semantic matching for information retrieval systems.