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Parishad BehnamGhader
پریشاد بهنام قادر
Student and Researcher
Languages
- Persian (Native)
- English (Fluent)
- Arabic (Basic)
- French (Basic)
Interests
About Me
My name is Parishad BehnamGhader. I am currently a PhD student at the McGill NLP research group at McGill University and Mila, Montreal, Canada under Prof. Siva Reddy’s supervision. I was also an ML Research Intern at Borealis AI in Summer 2024. I got my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran and I was previously a researcher at Machine Learning Lab in computer engineering department under the supervision of Prof. Mahdieh Soleymani. I am mainly interested in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing. More specifically, I work on retrieval-augmented generation, large language models-based text representation, and adaptation.
Publications
Experiences
Researcher
Supervised by Prof. Siva Reddy
Machine Learning Research Intern
Supervised by Siqi Liu and Eric Jiawei He
Researcher
Supervised by Prof. Mahdieh Soleymani
Research Intern
Supervised by Prof. Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
Software Intern
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science
GPA: 4.0/4
I started my studies at McGill University as a master’s student and fast-tracked to PhD in Jan 2024.
M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence
GPA: 18.83/20
Thesis Project: “Graph-based Word Embedding using Deep Neural Networks”, under the supervision of Prof. Mahdieh Soleymani
B.Sc. in Software Engineering
GPA: 18.75/20
Thesis Project: “Prediction of Products’ Features’ Rates with Sentiment Analysis”, under the supervision of Prof. Mahdieh Soleymani
Diploma in Mathematics and Physics Discipline
GPA: 19.85/20
Honors & Awards
Recipient of the RBC Borealis Fellowships (10,000 CAD)
Recipient of the McGill University J.W. McConnell Memorial Fellowship (5,000 CAD)
Recipient of the Mila's PhD Women in AI Excellence Scholarships (24,000 CAD)
Recipient of the McGill University BMO Responsible AI Fellowships (25,000 CAD)
Recipient of the Mila's MSc Women in AI Excellence Scholarships (10,000 CAD)
Recipient of the McGill University Kharusi Family Science Fellowship (5,000 CAD)
Ranked 13th region-wide and 14th nationwide in M.Sc. university entrance exam
among almost 20,000 participants
Ranked 18th region-wide and 27th nationwide in B.Sc. university entrance exam
among over 190,000 participants
Ranked 2nd in Iranopen competitions by "Intelligent House project"
in Junior Demo Open Challenge league