Bio

I’m a WASP and ELLIS Ph.D. student at the Department of Decision and Control Systems (DCS) of KTH Royal Institute of Technology under the supervision of Karl Henrik Johansson and Stefan Bauer. I completed my master’s degree in Computer Engineering (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics) at the University of Tehran. During my master’s studies, I was a research assistant at Data Analytics Lab under the supervision of Behnam Bahrak.

Research Interests

My main research interests lie in representation learning, inductive biases such as causal and object-centric learning, and training dynamics of deep transformer models. In particular, I am interested in understanding how high-level structure emerges in learned representations and how inductive biases influence this process. More recently, I have been exploring how training strategies such as progressive depth growth shape representations in self-supervised vision transformers.

I am also interested in applied ML in protein design, particularly in settings where experimental data is scarce. I am especially interested in using advances in ML to design high-affinity protein binders.