Education
M.Sc in Information Technology Engineering 2022-Present
University of Tehran
Effective GPA: 18.92/20
Thesis: User Behavior Modeling Using Large Language Models
Activities:
- Chief Teaching Assistant in Data Mining
- Teaching Assistant in NLP
- Intelligent Information Retrieval and Large Language Models
B.Sc in Mechatronics, Automation and Robotics Engineering 2016-2021
Isfahan University of Technology
Effective GPA: 15.59/20
Final Project:
Developing real-time Android application for dynamic balancing of rotating machineries using 4 runs method and USB MEMS accelerometer. Supported and used by a company in vibration industry.
Grade: 19.5/20
Activities:
- Senior Member on IoT & Robotics R&D Cell
- Winner of the Outstanding R&D Cell in IUT, 2019
Publications
PerCul: Story-Based Cultural Evaluation of LLMs in Persian
Submitted for NAACL 2025
V. Rahimzadeh, E. Mousavi, Y. Yaghobzadeh, A. Shakery, M.T. Pilehvar *equal contribution
From Millions of Tweets To Actionable Insights: Leveraging LLMs For User Understanding
Submitted for ECIR 2025
V. Rahimzadeh, A. Hamzepour, A. Shakery, M. Asadpour
Notable Experiences
AI Engineer | LLMs, LLMOps, VLMs 2023-Present
ModAI App, RamonAI
- Maintaining the main GitLab Repository with 7+ people actively working on it
- Scalable Deployment & Monitoring of LLMs
- Implementing & Monitoring LLM based Real-time pipelines on Millions of data using scalable queuing, databases and monitoring systems
- Implementing complex Chatbot backend using cutting-edge tools
- Using and Fine-tuning Different LLMs & VLMs
- Implementing various RAG based Solutions based on LLMs and KBs in various forms and modalities
- Involving in complex semantic/lexical search and retrieval systems using VectorDBs
Co-Founder, Software and AI Engineer 2018-2023
Qorfechi Co.
- In charge of the Front-End and SEO Groups
- Planned, designed and developed multiple world class standard websites using the latest technologies
- Implementing AI based features in Dashboards
Honors & Awards
- Ranked 2nd in Nationwide Graduate Level University Entrance Test of Information Technology
- Ranked 6th in Nationwide Graduate Level University Entrance Test of Computer Engineering
- Outstanding R&D Group of IUT in IoT & Robotics Group
- Ranked among top 0.5% in Nationwide Bachelor Level University Entrance Test of Mathematics and Physics
Skills
Large Language Models
Vision Language Models
Research
LangChain
LangGraph
Milvus
ElasticSearch
NATs
PostgreSQL
Redis
MongoDB
vLLM
TGI
Unsloth
HF Trainer
PyTorch
BERT
Embedders
Lexical Retrieval
Semantic Retrieval
ColBERT
BM25
Neo4J
Code Reviewing
Repository Maintenance
Teamwork
Tight Deadlines
Likes
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Albert Camus
Leo Tolstoy
Charles Bukowski
Franz Kafka
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jordan Peterson
Andrew Huberman
Lex Fridman
Sadegh Hedayat