Dr. Benyamin Ahmadnia is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at California State University, Dominguez Hills. His academic background is in Computer Science, with a research focus on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Neural Machine Translation (NMT), low-resource language technologies, and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in multilingual and domain-specific settings.
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 2017, where his research focused on Natural Language Processing. He also completed postdoctoral research appointments at several institutions, including the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Tulane University (USA), the University of California, Davis (USA), and Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women’s Hospital (USA).
His research interests include AI, LLMs, NMT, low-resource MT, multilingual NLP, medical language technologies, educational applications of AI, and domain adaptation for language technologies. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, conference proceedings, and workshops in areas related to NLP, MT, AI, and applied Machine Learning (ML).
Dr. Ahmadnia has taught a broad range of undergraduate and graduate Computer Science courses, including programming languages, data structures and algorithms analysis, software engineering, databases, digital logic design, compilers, data mining, computer vision, deep learning, natural language processing, machine learning, and related applied computing topics. His teaching emphasizes conceptual clarity, structured problem-solving, hands-on practice, and research-informed learning.
He also mentors undergraduate and graduate students on research and applied computing projects involving machine learning, natural language processing, large language models, software engineering, educational technologies, and AI-driven systems. His student-centered mentoring supports technical development, research writing, presentation skills, and publication-oriented project design.
For a current list of publications and research outputs, please refer to the Publications page and linked academic profiles.