CV
Education
- Postdoctoral Fellow, CS Department, University of Toronto, 2025 - 2026
- Research topics: LLM Post-Training (Reinforcement Learning, Test-Time Learning, Reasoning), Memory-Based Agentic AI
- Supervisor: Prof. Scott Sanner
- Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, ECE Department, University of Toronto, 2021 - 2025
- Distributed Machine Learning Systems, Differential Privacy, GPA 3.94/4
- Thesis: Communication Design for Dynamic Distributed Learning Systems
- Supervisors: Prof. Ben Liang, Prof. Min Dong
- M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, ECE Department, University of Tehran, 2018 - 2021
- Communications Systems, GPA 18.9/20 (3.92/4)
- Thesis: Placement of Aerial Base Stations for Coverage and Fairness Enhancement
- Supervisor: Prof. Maryam Sabbaghian
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, ECE Department, University of Tehran, 2014 - 2018
- Summa Cum Laude (top 5%), GPA 18.72/20 (3.93/4)
- Thesis: Efficient 3D Placement of Aerial Base Stations
- Supervisor: Prof. Maryam Sabbaghian
Research experience
- May 2024 - Aug 2024: Research Intern, Ericsson Canada
- Topic: Distributed Learning and Differential Privacy
- May 2023 - Aug 2023: Research Intern, Ericsson Canada
- Topic: Federated Learning
- Sep 2021 - Oct 2025: Graduate Student Researcher, WCL Lab, ECE Department, University of Toronto
- Topics: Communication Design for Distributed Learning Systems; Differential Privacy in ML
- Sep 2018 - Feb 2021: Graduate Student Researcher, CEL Lab, ECE Department, University of Tehran
- Topic: Optimal Placement of Aerial Base Stations
Working experience
- Sep 2019 - Feb 2020: Data Science Intern and Executive Manager Consultant, Crouse company, Iran
- Analyzed and visualized employee working hours to develop efficient and flexible workplace policies
- Supervisor: Dr. Arezou Keshavarz
Honors and awards
- Doctoral Completion Award, PhD Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 2025
- NeurIPS Travel Grant, Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
- Edward S. Rogers Sr. Graduate Scholarship for PhD Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, 2021
- Granted exemption from the national M.Sc. entrance exam for exceptional academic performance, University of Tehran, 2018
- Ranked 7th in cumulative GPA among 160 B.Sc. Electrical Engineering students (2014 cohort), University of Tehran, 2018
Skills
- Programming: Python (PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-Learn, etc.), MATLAB, C, C++
- Languages: Persian (Native), English (Fluent)
Service and leadership
- Conference Reviewer, NeurIPS 2026
- Journal Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC)