Experience
Academic & Professional Experience
From industry NLP roles to doctoral research on ontology learning and knowledge graphs.
April 2023 – Present
PhD Candidate in Computer Science
Leibniz University Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Supervised by Prof. Dr. Șren Auer and Dr. Jennifer D'Souza at TIB РLeibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology.
- Research focus on NLP and Semantic Web Technologies.
December 2022 – Present
Research Associate / Doctoral Researcher
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany
- Research on Ontology Learning, Ontology Alignment, LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, Agentic AI
- Maintainer of ORKG-NLP-PyPI library and ORKG-NLP-API
- Lead developer and maintainer of OntoAligner, OntoLearner, and YESciEval Python libraries
- Co-organizer of LLMs4OL Challenge Series
- PC Member for TEXT2KG @ ESWC 2025 | ELMKE @ ESWC 2025 | AI4SC @ AAAI 2025 | KGSWC 2025 | Konvens 2025 | SymGenAI4Sci @ SEMANTICS 2025 | EcoDL @ TPDL 2025 | RAGE-KG @ ISWC 2025 | AI4SC @ AAAI 2026
September 2019 – January 2022
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence
University of Tabriz (GPA: 18.84/20), Tabriz, Iran
- Research focus on Semi-Automated Content Moderation for Social Good.
- Teaching Assistant for Machine Learning course in 2021.
August 2021 – October 2022
Natural Language Processing Researcher
Part AI Research Center, Tehran, Iran
- Developed Knowledge Graph-based QA system for Persian
- Designed conversational chatbot system
- Built context-aware search application
July 2021 – March 2022
Natural Language Processing Specialist
Karan Co., Tehran, Iran
- Developed hybrid semantic/keyword matching system for job ads
- Built AI-powered QA system with NLG capabilities
October 2020 – June 2021
Senior Data Scientist
Iranian Big Data Development Co., Tehran, Iran
- Built NLP pipeline for medical information extraction
- Developed multilingual machine translation system
- Created AI-powered keyword extraction and search systems