Hi! I am a Stanford Ph.D. graduate (2023) from the Computer Science department. I was advised by Prof. Monica Lam in the NLP group. You can find out more about my research by visiting our lab's website.
Email: mehrad {at} cs {dot} stanford {dot} edu
Computer Science Department, Stanford University
Sep 2016 - June 2023,
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University
Sep 2016 - Jun 2018,
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology
Sep 2012 - Sep 2016,
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
Moveworks Inc.
October 2023 - present,
Machine Learning Research/ Engineering
Developing the next-generation of conversational agents for the enterprise.
Open Virtual Assistant Laboratory, Stanford, CA
March 2018 - June 2023,
Graduate Researcher
Research on dialogue systems, natural language generation, and multilingual technologies for virtual assistants.
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
June 2019 - Sept. 2019,
Research intern in the NLP group.
Introduced a novel neuro-symbolic model for efficient knowledge transfer across NLP tasks.
Stanford Ignite Program, Stanford, CA
Jan. 2020 - March 2020,
Worked in a team to develop a plan for commercializing a new health-care service.
Stanford Graduate Fellowship - Sony Fellow, highest award offered to Stanford graduate students, 2016-2019
1st rank among undergraduate students of all branches, Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Class of 2012-2016.
Silver medal in the 24th National Physics Olympiad, 2011
Iran’s National Elites Foundation scholarship, 2012-2016
Please see my Google Scholar page for an updated list of publications.