EDUCATION:
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)
Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering
Research area: Natural Language Processing – Machine Translation
September 2013 - December 2017
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain M.Sc. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering
Research area: Natural Language Processing – Machine Translation
September 2011 - July 2013
University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran B.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering
Department of Information Technology
Research area: Game-Based Learning
September 2006 - August 2010
POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING:
Harvard University, USA
Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science
Harvard Medical School - Brigham and Women's Hospital
Research area: Natural Language Processing July 2021 - September 2021
University of California at Davis (UC Davis), USA Postdoctoral Scholar in Computational Linguistics
Department of Linguistics Research area: Natural Language Processing July 2020 - June 2021
Tulane University of Louisiana, USA Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science Department of Computer Science Research area: Natural Language Processing
January 2019 - June 2020
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering
Research area: Natural Language Processing
January 2018 - December 2018
VISITING RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS:
Monash University, Australia Visiting Ph.D. student Faculty of Information Technology Research area: Natural Language Processing
October 2016 - March 2017
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS:
Occidental College, USA
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
August 2022 - Present
California State University, Long Beach, USA
Lecturer
Department of Computer Engineering and Computer Science
August 2022 - Present
Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA
Visiting Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Data Science
September 2021 - July 2022
Tulane University of Louisiana, USA Non-tenure-track online Adjunct Lecturer
School of Professional Advancement
August 2019 - December 2020
Tulane University of Louisiana, USA Instructor Department of Computer Science
August 2019 - May 2020
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Associate Editor
Open Computer Science (De Gruyter)
Lead Guest Editor
American Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AJAI)
Special issue: Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages
Editorial Board Member American Journal of Data Science and Analysis
American Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AJAI)
SCIREA Journal of Computer Australian Science Journal Journal of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (JCSEE)
International Journal on Natural Language Computing (IJNLC)
US-China Foreign Language
Program Committee Member
MLHMI’22 – Singapore City, Singapore
NLDM’21 – Vienna, Austria
CLNLP’21 – Beijing, China
DBDM’21 – Dubai, UAE
NET’21 – Chennai – India
CCNET’21 – Dubai, UAE
NCS – Toronto, Canada
BIOEN'21 - Dubai, UAE
CEU'21 - Dubai, UAE
ECNLPIR'21 - Stockholm, Sweden
NLPTA'21 - Dubai, UAE
NLPTM'21 - Dubai, UAE
NLTM'21 - Dubai, UAE
ICAIT'21 - Sydney, Australia
MLIS'21 - Xiamen, China
NLPD'21 - Toronto, Canada
NLPAI'21 - Chengdu, China
NATL'21 - London, UK
ADCO'21 - Dubai, UAE
CoSIT'21 - Sydney, Australia
NLPTT'21 - Dubai, UAE
SNLP'21 - Toronto, Canada
NLPCL'21 - Vancouver, Canada
ICDTA'21 - Fez, Morroco
NATL’20 - Chennai, India
NLPD’20 - Copenhagen, Denmark
NLPI’20 - Chennai, India
ECNLPIR’20 - Berlin, Germany
NATP’20 - Copenhagen, Denmark
NLP’19 - Copenhagen, Denmark
AAAI’19 - Honolulu, HI
IEEE-ICMLA’18 - Orlando, FL
ICCSEA’18 - Sydney, Australia
SPPR’18 - Sydney, Australia
Reviewer
EMNLP'21 - Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
ACL Rolling Review (ARR)
Journal of Computer Science (JCS)
Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing (TALLIP)
Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (MAKE)
EMNLP'20 - Online CLNLP’20 - Seoul, South Korea AdNLP’20 - Toronto, Canada International Journal of Information Science and Technology (iJIST)
Regular Member Hong Kong Society of Robotics and Automation (HKSRA)
TransMedia Catalonia Research Group