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Research and Work Experiences

• 09/2019-present: Graduate Research Assistant
  • University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
  • Research Focus: approximated and distributed coded computing, personalized and private federated learning
  • Supervisor: Prof. Stark C. Draper
• 04/2024-07/2024: Visiting Researcher, Intern
  • SprintML Lab, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
  • Research Focus: modeling dynamic trust and incentives, individualized differential privacy in federated learning
  • Supervisor: Prof. Franziska Boenisch, Prof. Adam Dziedzic
• 05/2021-09/2021: Machine Learning Researcher, Intern
  • Accelerated Neural Technology (Ant) Team, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Co., Montreal
  • Research Focus: floating point arithmetic and accelerated techniques in training neural networks
  • Supervisor: Dr. Vahid Partovi Nia
• 07/2019: Student
  • RIKEN Center for Computational Science(R-CCS) and Kobe University, Kobe, Japan
  • Experience included: This week-long, expenses-paid program brought together mentors/students whose research can benefit from High Performace Computing and provided training in parallel and GPU programming and data-intensive computing.
  • Supported by SciNet, PRACE, XSEDE, and R-CCS.
• 07/2015-09/2015: Undergraduate Research Intern
  • Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Information Engineering
  • Research Focus: network information theory
  • Supervisor: Prof. Chandra Nair
• 01/2015-05/2017: Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Multimedia and Signal Processing Lab, Sharif University of Technology
  • Research Focus: removal of artifacts from PPG and 3D acceleration signals
  • Supervisor: Prof. Farokh Marvasti

Education

• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Digital Systems), Sharif University of Technology, 2017
• Minor in Economics, Department of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology, 2017
• MASc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Communications), University of Toronto, 2019
• Certified at International High-Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS), RIKEN Center for Computational Science(R-CCS) and Kobe University, Japan 2019
• Certified at North American School of Information Theory (NASIT), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2023
• Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Communications), University of Toronto, 2024 (expected)

Prizes and Honors

• Gold medalist in National Mathematical Olympiad in Iran, 2011
• 8th place in IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2015 among 60 teams
• Accepted into the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s competitive internship, granted with full scholarships, 2015
• Accepted into the IHPCSS in Japan, granted with full scholarship, 2019
• Winner of Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) for two consecutive years, 2019-2021
• Recipient of University of Toronto student and research fellowship, 2017 - 2024
• Winner of DiDi graduate award for three consecutive years, 2020-2024
• NSERC Scholar, Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral (CGS D3), 2021-2024
• Mitacs Globalink research award abroad, Apr 2024