I’m a PhD student and Teaching Assistant in Computing Science at the University of Alberta. I am also a Research Assistant at Professor Herbert Yang’s lab, specialized in Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Before that, I was working as a Research Assistant with Professor Marcus Brubaker at the Computational Vision and Imaging Lab at York University.

Research Interests

My broad research interests include computer vision, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and solutions for complex problems as in computational biophysics. My current research projects span across image restoration as in deblurring and super-resolution, representation learning, neural architecture search, 3D reconstruction of transparent objects, particle picking in cryogenic electron microscopy, effects of experience replay in policy gradient methods, and the exploration-exploitation trade-off.

Research Experience

• Research Assistant, Computing Science Department, Faculty of Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
• Machine Learning Research Intern, Borealis AI, Toronto, Canada
• Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Thesis: Object Detection Frameworks for Particle Picking in Cryo-EM
• Research Assistant, Department of Computer Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
  • Project: User behavior analysis based on data mining techniques
• Research Assistant at Department of Computer Science, Amirkabir University of technology, Tehran, Iran
  • Project: Structural alignment of RNA molecules with pseudo-knots

Awards and Honors

• Huawei Doctoral Scholarship, University of Alberta and Huawei Technologies
• Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, University of Alberta
• Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship, University of Alberta
• Graduate Fellowship, York University
• International Masters Scholarship, York University
• VISTA Graduate Scholarship, Centre for Vision Research (CVR),
  • Project: An automated online benchmark for single-particle cryo-EM
• Ranked 1st in Graduation GPA of BSc in Software Engineering