[2018-now]  Senior Research Manager, Facebook
[2013-2018] Research Scientist/ Manager, Amazon

[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]
- 23/6/2019: AAAI Special Issue on Conversational AI for AI Magazine

- 14/6/2019: 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!

1. -May: A Tutorial video on Reinforcement Learning and MDPs
   

2. -Feb:
   

        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
[2016]

    Talks:

        MIT-CHIEF

        Yale University (Host: Stephen Slade)

    Bloomberg Article: How to Get a Job on Amazon’s Alexa Team

    Amazon Dot and Amazon Tap were launched.

[2015]

    Amazon Echo, non-exclusive launch.

    RLPy abstract was presented at RLDM 2015.

    Our RLPy framework paper got accepted at JMLR.

[2014]

    Amazon Echo, the product I have been working on was launched.

[2013]

    Our Tutorial on solving MDPs got accepted in the FTML Journal.

    Our RLPy framework paper got accepted at nips Workshop.

    Started as a Research Scientist at Amazon.com

    Our NIPS 2013 workshop got accepted.

    Our RLDM paper on Multimodel MDP modeling got accepted.

    Our RLDM paper on off-policy learning with feature expansion got accepted.