CV

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science
  Khoury College of Computer Science - Northeastern University, Boston, MA
  Sep. 2022 - Present

• M.S. in Computer Science
  Khoury College of Computer Science - Northeastern University, Boston, MA
  Nov. 2023

• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
  School of ECE - University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
  Sep. 2016 - Sep. 2021

Work Experience

• Doctoral Research
  Relational Agent Group (RAG), Northeastern University, Boston, MA
  Sep. 2022 - Present
  • Researching human-agent interactions, healthcare interventions, and multimodal interaction with conversational agents.
  • Advisor: Timothy Bickmore.
• Research Intern
  Affective Computing Lab, USC Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), Los Angeles, CA
  Jun. 2023 - Apr. 2023
  • Collaborated with Sony Entertainment R&D on designing persuasive conversational agents for gaming scenarios.
  • Advisor: Gale Lucas.
• Undergraduate Research Assistant
  Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
  Sep. 2019 - Jan. 2022
  • Multimodal sentiment analysis using SSL methods
  • Advisors: H. Moradi, M. Dousti.

Skills

• Machine Learning Toolkits: PyTorch, HuggingFace, TensorBoard, scikit-learn, Keras, Prompt Engineering, CVXPY.
• Empirical Study Design: Research Design, Hypothesis Testing, Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis, Mixed Methods, Online Crowdsourcing.
• Multimodal Processing Toolkits: Platform of Situated Intelligence, OpenSense, Multimodal Transformers.

Service and Leadership

• Program Committee:
  International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-23, ICMI-24),
  International Conference on Virtual Agents (IVA-24),
  International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII-24).

• Student Volunteer:
  ACII-23, ACII-21.

Full CV available upon request