I am a senior research scientist at Google Brain in Toronto. I am interested in developing simple and efficient machine learning algorithms that are broadly applicable across a range of problem domains including natural language processing and computer vision.
Building generative models of sequential data, sentences, programs, images, and other structured objects.
Advancing reinforcement learning algorithms and applications.
I joined the brain team in Mountain View in January, 2016 and moved to Toronto in January, 2018. I completed my PhD in computer science at the University of Toronto in December, 2015. My advisor was Prof. David Fleet, and I was supported by a Google PhD fellowship in machine learning. My PhD thesis focused on scalable similarity search for web-scale data collections. I am from Iran, where I finished my undergraduate studies at Sharif University of Technology.
Research Intern, Google, Mountain View, CA USA.
Mentors: Samy Bengio, Yoram Singer - Summer 2013.
Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK.
Mentor: Pushmeet Kohli - Spring 2013.
CSC236: Intro to Theory of Computation.