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Education

Michigan State University2022 – Present (expected Fall 2027)
Ph.D., Computer Science
Thesis: Signals of Trust: Confidence Estimation in Language, Reasoning, and Vision-Language ModelsMethods that let language, reasoning, and vision-language models estimate when their own answers are likely wrong.
Michigan State UniversityAug 2022 – Apr 2024
M.Sc., Computer Science
University of Guilan2017 – 2021
B.Sc., Computer Engineering
Thesis: Prose2Poem: The Blessing of Transformers in Translating Prose to Persian PoetryPaperA transformer model and dataset for translating Persian prose into poetry.

MicrosoftMay 2026
Applied Sciences Intern
Michigan State UniversityAug 2022 – Present
AI Research Assistant, Human Augmentation and Artificial Intelligence Lab (HAAIL)
Advised by Mohammad M. Ghassemi. Research funded by Henry Ford Health and JPMorgan AI Research.
University of GuilanSep 2018 – Jul 2022
NLP Research Assistant, Guilan NLP Group
With Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel. Low-resource NLP: poetry translation, text style transfer, and semantic search.

EMNLP 2025 Outstanding Paper Award nominee. Our paper on calibrating LLM confidence placed in the top 0.4% of 8,174 submissions.Paper MSU Today
2025
ASTRO 2026 oral presentation. Selected for an oral presentation, in the top 11% of submitted abstracts.Abstract
2026
NSF-EMBS-Google Young Professional NextGen Scholar. Selected at IEEE BHI 2025 from a limited group of early-career researchers in biomedical AI and health informatics.
2025
Sigma Xi, Full Member. Elected to The Scientific Research Honor Society, where full membership is by invitation only.
2025
Honorable Mention, MSU and Henry Ford Health Precision Health Symposium. For our abstract on calibrating LLM confidence in precision health.
2025
Top Cancer Control Abstract Award, Henry Ford + MSU Cancer Research Symposium. Awarded with an invited talk.Watch the talk
2023
Full graduate scholarship, University of Guilan. Awarded as an exceptional talent, ranked in the top 10% of 68 graduates in Computer Engineering.
2020
Full undergraduate scholarship, University of Guilan. Ranked in the top 7% of more than 148,000 participants in the national university entrance exam.
2017

How reliable is AI information?MSU Today · by Emilie Lorditch · ArticleRead
Nov 2025
How Reliable Is Artificial Intelligence?WJR 760 AM, Detroit · JR Afternoon with Ryan Ermanni · Radio interviewListen
Nov 2025
Is AI reliable? MSU researcher who created tool says 'no'WILX News 10, Lansing · TV interviewWatch
Nov 2025

At the end of the day, it comes down to the task, but if I want to give one answer, I would say no.

Program committees. AAAI 2027, IEEE BHI 2026, ICML 2026 AI4Law Workshop, CIKM 2026 LASS Workshop.
2026 – 2027
Journal reviewing. 24+ reviews across 8 journals, including Scientific Reports, Communications AI & Computing, Neural Computing and Applications, and Discover AI.
2022 – Present
ACM ICAIF 2023. Workshop organizing committee member; co-presented the tutorial Large Language Models for NLP in Finance.Slides
2023

Michigan State University2026
AI Literacy course
My lesson on validating AI outputs is featured in MSU's university-wide AI Literacy course.Watch AI-Ready Spartans
Rasht School of AIDec 2020 – Aug 2022
Founder
A free AI education initiative for Persian-speaking learners: meetups, talks, and open learning materials.
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Apr 2021Slides Video
- Introduction to Machine Learning: Jun 2021Slides Video
University of Guilan2018 – 2022
Teaching Assistant, 8 courses
- Deep Learning: Head TA, Spring 2022
- Natural Language Processing: Head TA, Spring 2021, 40 studentsMaterials
- Computational Intelligence: Head TA, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, 50+ studentsSpring 2020 Fall 2020 Spring 2021
- Data Structures and Algorithm Design: Head TA, Fall 2019, 50+ students
- Advanced Programming: Head TA, Spring 2019 and Fall 2019, 70+ students
- Language Theories and Automata: TA, Spring 2020, 70+ students
- Basics of Computer and Programming: TA, Fall 2018, 70+ students
- Specialized English for Engineering Students: TA, Spring 2018, 50+ students

FISU Most Active Student Ambassador. Ranked in the top 10% of 130 ambassadors representing 80 countries.
2020
FISU Volunteer Leaders Academy. Ranked first in Iran's national university sports federation selection and chosen as the national representative.Academy
2019
Running. Ran a half marathon in northern Michigan in July, then a full marathon in Long Beach, California, that October.Alpenfest Half Marathon Long Beach Marathon
2024
Languages. English (fluent, IELTS 7.5) · German (intermediate, Goethe-Zertifikat) · Persian (native)