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Education

2025 – present
EPFL, Lausanne
PhD in Computer Science · Advisors: Emmanuel Abbe & Antoine Bosselut
2021 – 2025
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

Work Experience

Oct 2026 – present
Apple, Lausanne
Independent Contractor

Researching reasoning in large language models, with one direction on agentic LLMs for multi-step problem solving and tool use.
2025
Hermes Capital, Tehran
Financial Data Scientist

Regime-change detection for global markets; inferring hidden portfolio weights from prices.

Bachelor's Internships

Summer 2024
Summer@EPFL, Lausanne
Research Intern

Multi-armed bandits with missing outcomes; led to the UAI 2025 paper.
Summer 2023
Max Planck Institute for Informatics, remote
Research Intern · with Corinna Coupette & Sebastian Dalleiger

GNNs for graph isomorphism that outperform Weisfeiler–Lehman-based methods.

Honors & Awards

2025
EPFL Computer Science Doctoral (EDIC) Fellowship
2021
Bronze Medal, International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO)
2021
Silver Medal, Asian Pacific Mathematical Olympiad (APMO)
2021
Silver Medal, ELMO Mathematical Olympiad
2020, 2021
Gold Medal (twice), Silk Road Mathematical Olympiad
2020
Gold Medal (Rank 1), Iran National Mathematical Olympiad
2018, 2020
Gold Medal (national & international), Iranian Geometry Olympiad
2018, 2019
First Prize (twice), European Mathematical Olympiad Cup
2019
Silver Medal, Tuymaada Mathematical Olympiad

Teaching

2025 – present
Teaching Assistant, EPFL
Practice of Object-Oriented Programming (2025) · Applied Data Analysis (2026)
2022 – 2025
Teaching Assistant, Sharif University of Technology
Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning · Design of Algorithms · Discrete Structures · and others (10 semesters)
2021 – 2022
Olympiad Coach, Young Scholars Club
Taught Iran's IMO candidates; three went on to win IMO gold medals.

Service

2026
Reviewer, ICLR 2027 and UAI 2026
Aug 2024
Participant, CMMRS Pre-doctoral Research School (Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck), Saarbrücken