About me

I am an AI Safety Research Fellow in the Anthropic Fellows Program. I recently completed my Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, where I was fortunate to be advised by Nisarg Shah. Before joining UofT, I received my B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and I spent four years in the tech industry as a software engineer and technical manager, building platforms with millions of users.

My research lies at the intersection of algorithms, artificial intelligence, and economics. I work on designing fair and efficient mechanisms to aggregate diverse preferences into collective decisions, with applications ranging from voting and democratic systems (citizens’ assemblies) to resource allocation. More recently, my work has extended to AI alignment, safety, and evaluation.

News

• I joined the Anthropic Fellows Program to conduct full-time AI safety research!
• I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis 🎉
• Nisarg and I won a AAAI-25 Outstanding Paper Award! Check out the paper here.
• I’ve started an ML Researcher Internship at Borealis AI for fall 2024.
• We revived Spliddit.org! Check it out!
• I’m visiting Ariel Procaccia at Harvard University for fall 2023.

Selected Awards

• AAAI-25 Outstanding Paper Award
• Gold medal in the 24^th Iranian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI), 2014.
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2023-2024.
• RBC Borealis PhD Fellowship, 2025.
• Alfred B. Lehman Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science, University of Toronto, 2023 and 2024.
• 4^th place in the Iranian National Scientific Olympiad in Computer Science and Engineering (undergraduate nationwide competition), 2019.
• 2^nd team in the ACM-ICPC West Asia Regional Contest, Tehran, Iran, 2015.