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Efficient 3D Placement of an Aerial Base Station in Cellular Communication
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.
Power Minimization in Federated Learning with Over-the-air Aggregation and Receiver Beamforming
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%)
Beamforming and Device Selection Design in Federated Learning with Over-the-air Aggregation
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)
Power-Efficient Over-the-Air Aggregation with Receive Beamforming for Federated Learning
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.
Adaptive Sparsification for Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning
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%)
Adaptive Sigmoid Clipping for Balancing the Direction–Magnitude Mismatch Trade-off in Differentially Private Learning
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%)
Bayes-Adaptive MDPs for Rollout Allocation to Enhance GRPO LLM Training
F. Moradi Kalarde, A. Toroghi, and S. Sanner. "Bayes-Adaptive MDPs for Rollout Allocation to Enhance GRPO LLM Training." Under review, 2026.
Sample-Efficient Self-Supervised Chain-of-Thought Learning for Enhancing LLM Reasoning at Test-Time
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.
Segment Trees for Temporally Ordered Structure-Aware Online Memory Construction and Retrieval in Conversational Agents
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.
Goal-Oriented Reasoning for RAG-based Memory in Conversational Agentic LLM Systems
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.
Privacy Enhancement in Over-the-Air Federated Learning via Adaptive Receive Scaling
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%)
CommonWhy: A Dataset for Evaluating Entity-Based Causal Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models
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
Engineering Mathematics
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Tehran, Winter 2018.
Coding Theory
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Tehran, Fall 2019.
Probability and Statistics
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Tehran, Fall 2019.
Convex Optimization
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Tehran, Winter 2020.
ECE367 Matrix Algebra and Optimization
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Toronto, Fall 2022, Fall 2023, and Fall 2024.
ECE216 Signal and Systems
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Toronto, Winter 2023, Winter 2024, Winter 2025, and Winter 2026.
ECE1508 Applied Deep Learning
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Toronto, Winter 2024, Fall 2025, and Winter 2026.
ECE368 Probabilistic Reasoning
Teaching Assistant, ECE Department, University of Toronto, Winter 2025.