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I'm a Passionate Researcher with a Love for AI and Everything About it. As a Lifelong Learner I'm Eager to Learn New Material Everyday and Take on New Challenges and Collaborate with Wonderful People.
News
- May 2025: Our Work, "From Millions of Tweets To Actionable Insights: Leveraging LLMs For User Profiling" has been accepted at MisD@AAAI ICWSM 2025
- May 2025: Presented our research on PerCul in NAACL 2025
- Apr 2025: PerCul was presented in Frontiers 2025 symposium at TeIAS and won the honorable mention award
- Mar 2025: Acted as official reviewer for ACL 2025
- Jan 2025: Shortlisted in ELLIS 2025
- Jan 2025: Shortlisted in Mila 2025
- Jan 2025: Selected as Head TA and TA for Advanced Data Mining, Large Language Models and Advanced NLP courses in University of Tehran and Cardiff University
- Dec 2024: Our work, "PerCul: A Story-Driven Cultural Evaluation of LLMs in Persian" accepted at NAACL 2025 Main Conference
- October 2024: Got a position as Part-time researcher in Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies
Education
M.Sc in Information Technology Engineering 2022-Present
University of Tehran
Effective GPA: 18.92/20
Thesis: User Behavior Modeling in Social Networks Using Large Language Models
Supervisors: Dr. Azadeh Shakery, Dr. Masoud Asadpour
Activities:
- Head Teaching Assistant in Advanced 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
Accepted at NAACL 2025 Main Conference
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
Accepted at MisD @ AAAI ICWSM 2025
V. Rahimzadeh, A. Hamzepour, A. Shakery, M. Asadpour
Notable Experiences
Researcher Oct 2024-Present
Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS)
- Working on Large Language Models Lab under supervision of Dr. Yaghoobzadeh and Dr. Pilehvar
- Working in the intersection of Computational Social Science and NLP
AI Engineer | LLMs, LLMOps, VLMs Oct 2023-Oct 2024
- 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
- 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
- Outstanding Paper Award at Frontiers 2025 symposium, Tehran
- 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