CV

This is a short overview. For the full curriculum vitae, see the PDF version.

Curriculum Vitae

For the complete curriculum vitae, see the PDF version. A list of my papers lives on the Publications page.

University of Oxford — Ph.D. in Statistics (StatML CDT), Oxford, UK (2026–present)
Sharif University of Technology — B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Physics, Tehran, Iran (2021–2025)
Young Scholars Club (IPhO Training) — International Physics Olympiad Training

Summer Internship, E3 Program (BIG | EPFL), Advised by Prof. Dr. Michael Unser (2024)
- Designed 1-Lipschitz-constrained (Parseval) convolutional operators and neural networks with provable stability bounds for inverse problems
- Introduced symmetric architectures that reduce parameters; achieved strong performance on denoising tasks
- Under review at ICML 2026
Bachelor's Project — Adversarially Robust Embeddings in Contrastive Learning, Advised by Prof. Sajjad Amini (in collaboration with Prof. Moosavi-Dezfooli) (2024)
- For more information, see the Publications section.
Study Sessions and Reading Groups
- Causality and bandit algorithms (with BAN at EPFL)
- Optimization on graphs and learning weights from smooth signals on Erdős–Rényi graphs
- Designing a chatbot for our universities department with Dr. Arash Amini.
- Exploring Tsallis-entropy–regularized MDPs for preference optimization in language models
- Exploring applying preference optimization to consistency models, see Project repository.
- Coordinated meetings and tracked project progress

Machine Learning — Head Teaching Assistant (2025): Designing problem sets and project ; Holding practice sessions ; Managing the teaching assistant group ; course homepage: https://ml-sut-amini.github.io/
Deep Generative Models — Head Teaching Assistant (2025): Designing problem sets and projects ; holding practice sessions
Probability and Statistics — Teaching Assistant (2024, 2025): Designing projects and problem sets ; holding practice sessions
Deep Learning — Teaching Assistant (2024): Designing course project ; practice sessions
Convex Optimization — Teaching Assistant (2024): Holding practice sessions
Linear Algebra — Teaching Assistant (2024): Holding practice sessions
Engineering Mathematics — Teaching Assistant (2023): Holding practice sessions
Signal Processing — Teaching Assistant (2023): Holding practice sessions
Deep Reinforcement Learning — Course Designer (2026): Developing full course material (Spring 2026)

Recordings of my teaching sessions and technical discussions are available here.