Postdoctoral Associate
Carnegie Mellon University

I am an AI scientist (Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University) and a computer engineer (B.S. from University of Tehran). My research is focused on pushing the frontiers of multimodality in machine learning. I am also interested in fundamental unimodal research topics including facial and body analysis, audio source localization and separation, as well as language and dependency modeling. During my Ph.D. I was a recipient of Yahoo Fellowship, and two honorable mention paper awards at ICMI. I was also an invitee to the White House Frontiers Conference. I have published, reviewed, and organized workshops at top ML conference.
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[2021] Ph.D. Thesis: Robust Multimodal Learning from Language, Vision and Acoustic Modalities.
Special thanks to my committee: LP Morency, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Tom Mitchel and Ali Farhadi.
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[2021] NAACL: I organized the Third Workshop on Multimodal AI.
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[2021] CVPR: I gave a tutorial on Multimodal Language.
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[2021] NAACL: One paper accepted.
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[2021] Preprint: StarNet: Gradient-free Training of Deep Generative Models using Determined System of Linear Equations.
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[2021] AAAI: One paper accepted.
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[2021] ICMI: Two papers accepted.
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[2021] Information Fusion (IF 12.97): One paper accepted.
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[2020] EMNLP: One paper accepted - CMU-MOSEAS dataset released.
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[2020] Information Fusion (IF 12.97): Foundations of Multimodal Co-learning.
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[2020] ACL: One paper accepted - Multimodal Finetuning of Advanced Transformer Models.
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[2020] Preprint: Pseudo-encoded Stochastic Variational Inference.
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[2020] Preprint: Variational Auto-Decoder: Neural Generative Modeling from Partial data.
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[2020] CVPR : Organizer of Multimodal Learning (MuL) Workshop.
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[2020] ACL: Organizer of Second Grand-challenge and Workshop on Multimodal Language (proceedings).
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[2019] ICCV: Organizer of Cross-Modal Learning in the Wild (CroMol)
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[2019] CVPR: One paper accepted as oral presentation.
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[2019] ICLR: One paper accepted.
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[2019] Invited Talk: Google San Francisco Workshop on Multimodal Learning.
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[2019] AAAI: Session Chair of Deep Learning session, and NLP session.
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[2019] AAAI: One paper accepted.
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[2018] EMNLP: One paper accepted as oral presentation.
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[2018] ACL: Two papers accepted as oral presentation.
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[2018] AAAI: Two papers accepted as oral presentation.
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[2018] ACL: Organizer of First Grand-challenge and Workshop on Multimodal Language (proceedings)
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[2017] EMNLP: One paper accepted as oral presentation.
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[2017] ACL: Two papers accepted (one oral).
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[2016] Yahoo InMind Fellowship.
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[2016] Invited to the White House Frontiers Conference.