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Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

Electrical and Computer Engineering

M.S.

University of Texas at Austin

Electrical and Computer Engineering

B.S.

Sharif University of Technology

Electrical Engineering

AI/ML Engineer

Polygraf AI

Building production-grade NLP systems for detecting AI-generated and manipulated content, privacy-preserving LLM infrastructure, and AI-powered document intelligence.

• Designed and deployed transformer-based PII detection pipelines (BERT variants) integrated into real-time product workflows.
• Built privacy-preserving LLM infrastructure that detects, redacts, and later restores sensitive entities while preserving semantic context.

Research Assistant

University of Texas at Austin

Research on combinatorial optimization problems arising in real-world large-scale systems; designed and analyzed efficient algorithms with provable performance guarantees. Published 3 journal articles and 9 conference proceedings.

Visiting Summer Student

Georgia Institute of Technology

Research on minimizing electrical loss in electricity distribution networks. Advisor: Prof. Swati Gupta.

Visiting Scholar

Simons Institute, University of California, Berkeley

Research on real-time decision-making problems arising in electricity networks.

Research Intern

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Analyzed cache-induced asymmetric cooperation for MIMO cellular networks with limited backhaul.

2nd Place, Epson Innovation Challenge

Epson

Awarded for an AI-based secure print/scan system that prevents leakage of confidential data at physical document entry points.

Best Student Paper Award

IEEE ICASSP

For: Rasoul Shafipour, Ali Khodabakhsh, Gonzalo Mateos, Evdokia Nikolova, Digraph Fourier Transform via Spectral Dispersion Minimization, ICASSP, Calgary, 2018.

Best Paper Runner-Up

HICSS (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences)

For: Ali Khodabakhsh, Ger Yang, Soumya Basu, Evdokia Nikolova, Michael C. Caramanis, Thanasis Lianeas, Emmanouil Pountourakis, A Submodular Approach for Electricity Distribution Network Reconfiguration, 51st HICSS, Hawaii, 2018.