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Career

· Research Intern, Ai22025–2025
· Research Scientist, Google DeepMind2025–
· Student Researcher, Google DeepMind2022–2023
· Ph.D., Computer Science, ETH Zürich2021–2025
· Master's degree, Computer Science, ETH Zürich2019–2021
· Data Scientist, Cafe Bazaar2018–2019
· Intern, ETH Zurich2017–2017
· Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Sharif University of Technology2014–2019

Publications (19)

Direct Preference Optimization with an Offset
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2024
101
cited
Variational Best-of-N Alignment
International Conference on Learning Representations · 2024
38
cited
Assessing Large Language Models on Climate Information
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2023
34
cited
Naturalistic Causal Probing for Morpho-Syntax
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2022
26
cited
Conditional Poisson Stochastic Beams
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2021
13
cited
A Hybrid Deep Model for Automatic Arrhythmia Classification based on LSTM Recurrent Networks
IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications · 2020
8
cited
The Role of n-gram Smoothing in the Age of Neural Networks
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2024
7
cited
Principled Gradient-Based MCMC for Conditional Sampling of Text
International Conference on Machine Learning · 2024
6
cited
Structured Voronoi Sampling
Neural Information Processing Systems · 2023
6
cited
Hexatagging: Projective Dependency Parsing as Tagging
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023
5
cited
Which Spurious Correlations Impact Reasoning in NLI Models? A Visual Interactive Diagnosis through Data-Constrained Counterfactuals
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023
5
cited
Generating Text from Language Models
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023
4
cited
Better Estimation of the Kullback--Leibler Divergence Between Language Models
2025
3
cited
In-Context Probing: Toward Building Robust Classifiers via Probing Large Language Models
2023
3
cited
Linear-Time Modeling of Linguistic Structure: An Order-Theoretic Perspective
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
2
cited
Principled Gradient-based Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Text Generation
arXiv.org · 2023
2
cited
Syntactic Control of Language Models by Posterior Inference
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2025
1
cited
On Parsing as Tagging
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2022
Reverse-Engineering the Reader
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2024
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