Curriculum Vitae

Education

• PhD in Computer Science
  • September 2025 - present
  • Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)
• B.Sc in Computer Engineering
  • October 2020 - July 2025
  • Sharif University of Technology
  • Tehran, Iran

Experience

• Research Experience
  • February 2024 - July 2025
  • Supervisors: Dr. Masoud Seddighin, Golnoosh Shahkarami
  • Distortion of Multi-Winner Elections on the Line Metric: The Polar Comparison Rule (arXiv, SAGT’25)
  • Proposed a new voting rule for multi-winner elections based on preferences on the line metric.
  • Established new upper and lower bounds on distortion for general multi-winner elections on the line.
• Research Intern
  • July 2024 - September 2024
  • Max Planck Institute of Informatics (MPII)
  • Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany · On-site Summer Internship
  • Supervisor: Dr. Nithin Varma
  • Finding Approximation Algorithms for Explainable Clustering
  • Studied explainable clustering and nearest neighbors problem.
  • Proposed a deterministic algorithm with tight lower bound on price of explainability.
  • De-randomized an existing randomized clustering algorithm.
• Research Intern
  • July 2023 - September 2023
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
  • Hong Kong SAR · On-site Summer Internship
  • Supervisors: Prof. Ke Yi, Dr. Xiao Hu
  • Output-Sensitive Algorithm for Triangle Listing in Graphs in Massively Parallel Computations (MPC) Model
  • Adapted an algorithm for listing triangles in RAM model using fast matrix multiplication.
• Volunteer Teaching Assistant
  • Fall 2021 - Spring 2024
  • Sharif University of Technology

Languages

• Persian: Native Proficiency
• English: Full Professional Proficiency, Score in TOEFL (iBT): 109/120 [R: 28, L:28, S:25, W:28]