Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, The Ohio State University, 2022 - Present
M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Software), Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, 2015 - 2017
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Hardware), Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, 2011 - 2015

Work Experience

ML Research Intern at Apple, Seattle, WA — May 2025 - Present
- Working on multimodal vision-language models and efficient training for generative applications.
Machine Learning Intern at Higharc, North Carolina — May 2024 - Aug 2024
- Research on semantic and panoptic segmentation.
- Self-supervised learning with DETR-based model using unlabeled data.
- Developed domain adaptation strategies for cross-dataset generalization.
Senior ML Engineer at Jibb, San Francisco — Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
- Removed unwanted visual content from media using object detection and enhancement techniques.
- Designed U-Net variants for fast and accurate image/video processing.
CTO at BlueBitSoft, Tehran — Dec 2018 - Dec 2021
- Designed high-level scalable software architecture.
- Guided engineering team using CI/CD pipelines and best practices.
Senior Data Scientist & Back-End Developer at TAPSI (Online Taxi), Tehran — Mar 2018 - Dec 2020
- Designed micro-services for pricing, GPS fraud detection, and ETA prediction.
- Introduced demand forecasting and smart maps.
- Published work on ETA algorithms.

TA, Computer Vision for HCI (Spring 2025), Ohio State University
TA for 5 semesters of “Modeling and Problem Solving with Spreadsheets and Databases” (2022–2025)
TA at Shahid Beheshti University for AI, Algorithms, and Discrete Mathematics (2012–2018)

SIGKDD 2025: Outstanding Reviewer (Top 10%), Excellent Reviewer (Top 20%)
ACM-ICPC Coach: World Finals (2018), Regionals & Online (2012–2017)
ACM-ICPC Contestant: Top 10 rankings in national and Asia regionals (2012–2014)
1st Rank in National M.Sc Entrance Exam of Computer Engineering (2015)
Top 1% in National B.Sc Entrance Exam of Mathematics (2011)
Bronze Medal, Waterloo Mathematics Olympiad (2009)