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I am a first-year PhD student at TU Delft, where I am supervised by Savvas Zannettou and Yury Zhauniarovich. My research focuses on the safe and responsible integration of AI in digital environments, positioned at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Computational Social Science.
My journey is driven by a joy for exploring diverse fields and a passion for building new things. It's a path that has given me the privilege of leading research and industry teams, launching successful products, and teaching/managing large university courses. These varied experiences are the foundation of my interdisciplinary work and my aspiration to build a "Distributed Scientific Persona" —firmly anchored in computer science but deeply enriched by the social sciences and humanities. I’m always excited to connect with others who share a passion for learning and collaboration, so please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you see anything interesting here :D
News
- Sep 2025: New resource paper, PolitiSky24 accepted to EMNLP 2025, Findings
- Aug 2025: Defended my M.Sc thesis with distinction
- May 2025: Our work on User Profiling in Social Networks with LLMs accepted to MisD@ICWSM 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 and 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 accepted to 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