WORK EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Research Associate, October 2019 - Present
Institute for Automated Language Teaching and Assessment (ALTA), Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research Associate, October 2018 - September 2019
Research Group in Computational Linguistics, University of Wolverhapton
- I worked on a project on predicting item characteristics for Multiple-Choice Question Answering.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Standing Committee Member, 2020 - 2022
Organising Committee Member, August 2021
18th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2022) 17th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2021)
Editorial Assistant, 2014 - 2019
Cambridge Journal of Natural Language Engineering
Programme Committee Member
RANLP 2019, Europhras 2019
Organising Committee Member, August 2019
The Summer School for Deep Learning in NLP 2019, Varna, Bulgaria.
Organising Committee Member, November 2017
- EUROPHRAS 2017, London, UK.
- Student Research Workshop, held in conjunction with EUROPHRAS 2017, London, UK.
Reviewer
JNLE, ACL (2020-2022), EMNLP (2021, 2020), EACL 2021, RANLP (2015-2021), COLING (2020-2022), Europhras 2017, SLSP 2017, CICLing 2017, AISP 2012
Education:
PhD in Natural Language Processing, University of Wolverhampton 2014-2018
- Thesis: Automatic Identification and Translation of Multiword Expressions
M. Sc. in Artificial Intelligence, Shiraz University 2009-2012
- Thesis: Automatic Investigation of the Semantics of Persian Compound Verbs
B. Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, Shiraz University 2004-2008
- Thesis: Detecting Openness of Pistachio Nuts Using Image Classification Methods