NLP & Speech Processing Researcher · Research Assistant @ Columbia University · M.Sc. Sharif University of Technology
I'm an AI researcher specializing in Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, and Healthcare AI. Currently, I work as a Research Assistant at Columbia University under Prof. Maryam Zolnoori, where my research focuses on cognitive impairment detection from speech, text, and EHR data using multimodal deep learning and clinical NLP.
My work sits at the intersection of speech AI, multimodal modeling, and responsible clinical AI — with a strong emphasis on data-efficient learning, fairness, and explainability.
- Research Assistant — Columbia University (Jan 2024 – Present) · Cognitive AI from speech, multimodal Transformer pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning of Audio-LLMs
- Deep Learning Research Engineer — BlueDopamine (Feb 2025 – Present) · LLM-based protein analysis, generative design, structure prediction
- ML Engineer (Speech & NLP) — Sharif Information Systems & Data Science Center (Jan 2022 – Jan 2024) · RAG-based enterprise chatbot, SOTA ASR/TTS for Persian
- Research Assistant — Sharif University of Technology (Jan 2021 – Jun 2024) · ASR, TTS, Voice Conversion, S2ST
Languages: Python · C++ · C · JavaScript · TypeScript
ML/DL: PyTorch · TensorFlow · Keras · HuggingFace Transformers · MLflow · Gradio · Scikit-learn
NLP/Speech: LangChain · FAISS
Data & Viz: NumPy · Pandas · Matplotlib
Tools: Linux · Docker · Git · LaTeX