F. Moradi Kalarde, M. Sabbaghian, "Efficient 3D Placement of an Aerial Base Station in Cellular Communication," in 9th Iran Workshop on Communication and Information Theory (IWCIT), 2021.
F. Moradi Kalarde, B. Liang, M. Dong, Y. A. E. Ahmed, H. T. Cheng, "Power Minimization in Federated Learning with Over-the-air Aggregation and Receiver Beamforming," in Proc. Int. ACM Conference on Modeling Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), 2023. (acceptance rate 22%)
F. Moradi Kalarde, M. Dong, B. Liang, Y. A. E. Ahmed, H. T. Cheng, "Beamforming and Device Selection Design in Federated Learning with Over-the-air Aggregation," Open Journal of Communication Society, 2024. (Among top-10 FL papers of 2024-2025 in OJCOMS)
F. Moradi Kalarde, M. Dong, B. Liang, Y. A. E. Ahmed, H. T. Cheng, "Power-Efficient Over-the-Air Aggregation with Receive Beamforming for Federated Learning," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025.
F. Moradi Kalarde, B. Liang, M. Dong, Y. A. E. Ahmed, H. T. Cheng, "Adaptive Sparsification for Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning," in Proc. ACM Int. Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc), 2025. (acceptance rate 23%)
F. Moradi Kalarde, A. Bereyhi, B. Liang, M. Dong, "Adaptive sigmoid clipping for balancing the direction–magnitude mismatch trade-off in differentially private learning," in Proc. of the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025. (acceptance rate 24.5%)
F. Moradi Kalarde, A. Toroghi, and S. Sanner. "Bayes-Adaptive MDPs for Rollout Allocation to Enhance GRPO LLM Training." Under review, 2026.
F. Moradi Kalarde*, A. Toroghi*, and S. Sanner. "Sample-Efficient Self-Supervised Chain-of-Thought Learning for Enhancing LLM Reasoning at Test-Time." Under review, 2026.
Y. Liu, L. Gallagher, F. Moradi Kalarde, J. Liang, and S. Sanner. "Segment Trees for Temporally Ordered Structure-Aware Online Memory Construction and Retrieval in Conversational Agents." Under review, 2026.
J. Liang*, A. Toroghi*, F. Moradi Kalarde, and S. Sanner. "Goal-Oriented Reasoning for RAG-based Memory in Conversational Agentic LLM Systems." Under review, 2026.
F. Moradi Kalarde, B. Liang, M. Dong, Y. A. E. Ahmed, H. T. Cheng, "Privacy Enhancement in Over-the-Air Federated Learning via Adaptive Receive Scaling," in IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2026. (acceptance rate 18.9%)
A. Toroghi*, F. Moradi Kalarde*, and S. Sanner, "CommonWhy: A Dataset for Evaluating Entity-Based Causal Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models," in Proc. ACM Int. Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2026.
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Tehran, Winter 2018.
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Tehran, Fall 2019.
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Tehran, Fall 2019.
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Tehran, Winter 2020.
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Toronto, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, and Fall 2024.
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Toronto, Winter 2023, Winter 2024, Winter 2025, and Winter 2026.
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Toronto, Winter 2024, Fall 2025, and Winter 2026.
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Toronto, Winter 2025.