[2018-now] Senior Research Manager, Facebook AI
[2013-2018] Research Scientist/ Manager, Amazon - Alexa
[2012-2013] Postdoc, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT
[2008-2011] PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
[2004-2007] MSc, Computer Science, University of Alberta
[1998-2003] BSc, Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
[2019]
- July:
Our paper on user satisfaction estimation got accepted to SigDial2019
Our 3rd workshop on Conversational AI got accepted to NeurIPS 2019
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-June:
AAAI Special Issue on Conversational AI for AI Magazine
RL for real-life Workshop at ICML 2019
[2018]
- December: 2nd Conversational AI Workshop at NeurIPS 2018
- October: Started my new career at Facebook as a research manager.
- August: Our second NIPS workshop on conversational AI got accepted!
Panelist on Conversational Interaction Conference
Talk at Stanford University on Data Driven Dialog Management
[2017]
Our Workshop Paper at NIPS workshop: Learning Robust Dialog Policies in Noisy Environments
NIPS Workshop: Conversational AI - today's practice and tomorrow's potential
MovieBot 9.0 Video
Alexa - Conversation AI
Talks:
Harvard (Host: Finale Doshi)
MIT Hackathon (Host: Lisa Tacoronte)
Carnegie Mellon University (Host: Christopher Atkeson)
Alexa Prize Seattle
Alexa/AWS/Devices Home Products Networking Event (Amazon)
MIT Spoken Language Systems (Host: Jim Glass)
University of Pennsylvania (Host: João Sedoc)
MIT Sloan School (Host: Jonathan Ruane)
Data Insight Company in Boston