People

6 PhD students, 7 master's students, and 33 alumni now in industry and academia.

Director · 1

Azadeh Shakery

Associate Professor · Lab Director

Her research is in text information management, covering retrieval models and relevance feedback, cross-language retrieval and Persian NLP.

PhD in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. Dissertation on probabilistic score propagation in information retrieval
M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

PhD students · 6

Samaneh Peymani Rad

Since 2022

Peyman Rostami

Since 2018

Information Retrieval and Expert Finding in Community Question Answering

Hooman

Since 2019

Mohammad Sadegh Sadeghi

Since 2021

Conversational AI and LLM-powered recommender systems

Emad Kebriaei

Since 2017

Persian NLP, offensive language detection, and abstractive summarization

Golnar Afzali

Since 2017

NLP, machine learning, and big data

Master's students · 7

Parmis Bathayan

Since 2023

EEG signals for multimodal sentiment analysis in Persian and English

Sina Kargaran

Since 2023

Amirhossein Roshandel

Since 2023

Personalization and Diversification of Recommendations in Conversational Recommender Systems with a Focus on User Preferences

Erfan Shahabi

Since 2024

An Investigation and Enhancement of Strategic Behavior of Large Language Models in Social Context

Amin Motamedi

Since 2024

Mehdi Sabour

Since 2024

Yoosef Ghaderi

Since 2024

Alumni · 33

Vahid Rahimzadeh

2022-2025

PhD student, TU Delft

Mohammad Javad Ranjbar

2022-2025

Research Intern, EPFL NLP Lab

Shahla Daneshi

2022-2023

AI Engineer, RunSensible

MohammadJavad Kamyab

2021-2024

Mid-level Data Analyst, Paeezan Studio

Mahsan Akbari Amin

2020-2023

AI Engineer, TOSAN TECHNO

Ayyoob Imani

2016-2018

Applied Scientist, Microsoft Germany

Mostafa Dehghani

2012-2016

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Samira Abnar

2011-2015

Machine Learning Researcher, Apple

Hamed Zamani

2011-2016

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Homa B. Hashemi

2008-2011

Applied Scientist, Microsoft

Javid Dadashkarimi

2008-2015

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania

Parisa Bazmi

PhD · 2023

Shiraz University of Technology

Samaneh Karimi

PhD · 2021

Mohsen Raeesi

PhD · 2020

Shayan A. Tabrizi

PhD · 2019

Elham Ghanbari

PhD · 2011-2018

Islamic Azad University, Shahr-e-Rey Branch

Razieh Negin Rahimi

PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nava Ehsan

PhD

Scripps Research

Fatemeh Amiri

PhD

Assistant Professor, Hamedan University of Technology

Alireza Meshkin

PhD

Islamic Azad University, Damavand Branch

Sajad Movahedi

MSc · 2022

ELLIS Institute Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Amir Vakili Tahami

MSc · 2020

University of Waterloo

Yasin Ghafourian

MSc · 2019

Researcher, Research Studios Austria; PhD student, TU Wien

Marzieh Fadaee

MSc · 2010-2013

Head of Cohere Labs, Cohere

Ali Montazeralghaem

MSc

Google

Mozhdeh Ariannezhad

MSc

Booking.com

Amirhossein Tebbifakhr

MSc

eBay

Hosein Azarbonyad

MSc

Elsevier

Elahe Dabir (Rahimtoroghi)

MSc

Google Research

Zahra Rahimi

MSc

Scientist, Amazon

Mahsa S. Shahshahani

MSc

Hossein Nasr Esfahani

MSc

Hossein Rahmatizadeh Zagheli

MSc