Since August 2014, I am the director of Life Language Processing project under the supervision of Professsor Mofrad at the Cell Biomechanics Laboratory at UC Berkeley.

Currently I am an NLP lead data scientist at the AI Innovation center of Volkswagen Group at Data:Lab Munich and a post-doctoral researcher at Helmholtz Center for Infection Research.

My research interests are Language Processing, Bioinformatics, and Digital Humanities.

I completed my PhD at UC Berkeley in Applied Science and Technology with Designated Emphasis in Computational Data Science and Engineering.
My dissertation was on "Life Language Processing: Deep Learning-based Language-agnostic Processing of Proteomics, Genomics/Metagenomics, and Human Languages" supervised by Professor Mofrad in a close collaboration with the Deep NLP group at the University of Munich (LMU) (directed by Prof. Hinrich Schütze) as well as Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (directed by Prof. Alice McHardy).

I completed my second masters in Applied Science and Technology at UC Berkeley (2016) and my first masters in Computer Science (CS) at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne (EPFL). During my M.Sc. in CS, I majored in Natural Language Processing and completed my master's thesis at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Professor Mark Finlayson and Professor Patrick Winston.

I obtained my B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2011.