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

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

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

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

Programming: Python (PyTorch, TensorFlow, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-Learn, etc.), MATLAB, C, C++
Languages: Persian (Native), English (Fluent)