Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2017 - 2021
  • Supervisor: David Fleet
  • Thesis: Training Efficiency and Robustness in Deep Learning
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2013 - 2014
  • Supervisor: David Fleet
• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2008 - 2012

Work experience

• Apple, 2021 - Present
  • Senior Machine Learning Researcher
• Google Brain
  • Research Intern, 2020
  • Research Intern, 2017
• Architech Inc., 2015 - 2016
  • Lead Research Scientist
• Slyce Inc., 2014 - 2015
  • Machine Learning Researcher

Professional Services

Area Chair

• CVPR 2024-2026
• ICML 2026
• ICLR 2026

Organizer

• NeurIPS 2025 CCFM Workshop

Reviewer

• ICLR 2019-2025, NeurIPS 2020-2025, ICML 2021-2025, CVPR 2022-2023, ACL 2025, ECCV 2020, ICCV 2021, AISTATS 2022, TMLR 2022-2023.

Selected Honors and Awards

• 2020-2021 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) at the University of Toronto
• 14th team in the ACM-ICPC ECNA Regional Contest, 2013
• 11th place in Iranian graduate school entrance exam in AI among 10000s, 2011
• 8th team in the ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest, 2009
• Gold medal in the Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics, 2007