Curriculum vitæ
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Ph.D. in Computer Science
Thesis: “Language Development in the Digital Age”
Supervisors: Prof. Gabriel Skantze, Olov Engwall
M.Sc. in Cognitive Science
Thesis: “Computational Models of Lexical Acquisition: Predicting the Age of Acquisition of Different Grammatical Classes”
Supervisors: Dr. Aurélie Herbelot, Dr. Afra Alishahi
M.A. in Human-Computer Interaction
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Thesis: “Systems and Methods of Multi-threading in Android OS”
President of CS Scientific Association (2012–2014)
Experience & teaching
Doctoral Researcher
Teaching: DD2417 Language Engineering (2023, 2024) · DT2140 Multimodal Interaction and Interfaces (2021, 2022)
Supervision: 5 M.Sc. theses (KTH & Trento) and 3 B.Sc. projects on RALL, LLM chatbots, and conversational AI
EECS PhD Council & CS Doctoral Program Council representative (2022–2024); TMH webmaster (since 2023)
Associate Researcher
Research on multimodal language learning
Research Assistant / Intern
Computational modeling of language acquisition; TA for “Programming with Python”
Teacher Assistant
Digital Design (2014, 2015) · Computer Architecture (2016)
Grants & awards ~€223,320 total
Digital Futures Demonstrator Project Grant
“Empowering Cultural Integration and Language Learning through Conversational AI” — Digital Futures, 2024–2026
SIGAI Student Travel Grant
ACM SIGAI, 2024 — attending 24th ACM IVA
Master Program Merit-based Full Scholarship
University of Trento, 2018–2020
Thesis Research Abroad Scholarship
University of Trento, 2020 — research at Tilburg University
Erasmus+ Traineeship Scholarship
European Union, 2019–2020
Master Program Merit-based Scholarship
University of Trento, 2017–2018
Skills
Native: Persian, Azerbaijani · Fluent: Italian, English · Elementary: Swedish, Russian
Python (Pandas, SciPy, PyTorch, TensorFlow), Statistics (R), Kotlin (FurhatOS)
Git/GitLab, VS Code, LaTeX, ELAN
Experimental design, data collection & analysis, statistics, machine learning
Project management, teamwork, presentation, teaching
Societies & service
Member (2023) — RAS (reviewer, IEEE RA-L), Young Professionals
Member (2022)
Member (2020)
Mentor (2021)