[2017-Now] Manager, Machine Learning, Amazon.com
[2016-2017] Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon.com
[2013-2016] Machine Learning Scientist, Amazon.com
[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
[2018]
- 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
[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.
