People
Current Group
Research Assistants
AliReza Salehi
Research Assistant · University of Tehran · 2025–Present
Current status: Research Assistant in the group.
Associated work: ArXiv 2025, ICASSP 2026. Focus: anomaly detection and foundation-model based vision research.
Bahram Mohammadi
Research Assistant · Returning Member · 2025–Present
Current status: Rejoined as a Research Assistant.
Current focus: LLM hallucination and reliability. Previous associated work: LCN 2019, WACV 2021.
PhD Students
AhmadReza Moradzade
PhD Student · Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) · 2023–Present
Current status: PhD student.
Thesis: Noisy Label Image Classification.
Past Members
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Fatemeh Aghaeipoor
Postdoctoral Researcher · 2020–2023
Current status: Assistant Professor at Alzahra University.
Project: Investigating explainable AI with a focus on transformers.
Dr. Zahra Rezvani
Postdoctoral Researcher · 2020–2023
Current status: Assistant Professor at Alzahra University.
Project: Local / global feature analysis in CNNs.
Research Assistants
Mohammadreza Salehi
Research Assistant · Sharif University · 2021–2022
Current status: University of Amsterdam.
Associated work: ICLR 2023, TMLR 2022.
Hossein Mirzaei
Research Assistant · Sharif University · 2022–2024
Current status: Doctoral Assistant, EPFL.
Associated work: ICLR 2023, CVPR 2024, ICASSP 2024.
Fatemeh Jabbari
Research Assistant · IPM · 2021–2023
Current status: PhD student at the University of Bonn.
Worked on group research projects.
Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz
Research Assistant · IPM · 2020–2021
Current status: PhD student, Robotics Institute, University of Toronto, Canada.
Associated work: ICLR 2022, CVPR 2024.
PhD Students
Mohammad Hajizade
PhD Student · Iran University of Science and Technology · 2018–2024
Current status: CTO, Part AI Research Center.
Thesis: Lightweight Object Detection using DNN.
Marzieh Esmaeil
PhD Student · Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2020–2024
Current status: Assistant Professor at Tarbiat Modares University.
Thesis: Anomaly Detection for Medical Imaging.
Master’s Students
Reyhane Tavakolian
Master’s Student · Tehran Azad University · 2022–2024
Current status: Completed Master’s.
Thesis: Video Anomaly Detection by Semi-Supervised Learning.
Hossein Rezaie
Master’s Student · Iran University of Science and Technology · 2023–2026
Current status: Graduated and moved to past members.
Thesis: OOD Generalization in Continual Learning.
Mohsen Fayyaz
Master’s Student · MUT, Tehran · 2016–2017
Current status: Senior Scientist at Microsoft. I was his advisor.
Associated work: TIP, ACCV 2019, ACCV 2016, CVIU.
Mohammad Khalooie
Master’s Student · MUT, Tehran · 2017–2018
Current status: PhD student at Amirkabir University of Technology.
Associated work: CVPR 2018, ICCV 2019, ACML 2023.
Masoud Pourreza
Master’s Student · MUT, Tehran · 2017–2018
Current status: Computer Vision researcher at Western University.
Associated work: WACV 2021, ACCV 2018, ESWA.
Mohammad Hajizadeh Saffar
Master’s Student · MUT, Tehran · 2015–2017
Current status: Past student.
Associated work: ACCV 2016, MVIP 2015.
Interns
Solale Mohammadi
Intern · Sharif University
Current status: PhD student at the University of Maryland, USA.
Project: Semantic Backdoor Attack for Videos.
Pengfei He
Intern · PhD Student, University of Michigan
Current status: PhD student at the University of Michigan.
Project: Sampling for Backdoor Attacks.
Naghmeh Jamali
Intern · Master’s Student, IPM
Current status: Past intern.
Project: Backdoor Attack for NLP.
Laura Medinilla
Intern · PhD Student, KAUST
Current status: Current Research Scientist.
Project: AI for Genome Analysis.
Alireza Salehi
Intern · Master’s Student, University of Tehran
Current status: Past intern. Now Research Assistant in the current group.
Project: Investigating the Robustness of Anomaly Detection using VLM.
Parsa Hosseini
Intern · Bachelor’s Student, Sharif University
Current status: PhD student at the University of Maryland, USA.
Project: Brainwash Continual Learning.
Jose Renato Restom Viera
Intern · PhD Student, MBZUAI
Current status: Past intern.
Project: Novelty Category Discovery.
Raha Ahmadi
Intern · Bachelor’s Student, University of Amirkabir
Current status: University of British Columbia.
Project: Mitigating Bias for Image Classification.
Leili Barekatain
Intern · Bachelor’s Student, University of Amirkabir
Current status: Master’s student at Imperial College London.
Project: Explaining Transformers.
Mohammad Javad Rajabi
Intern · Bachelor’s Student, University of Amirkabir
Current status: PhD student at the University of Toronto | Vector Institute.
Project: Mitigating Bias for Image Classification.
Selected Collaborators
Assoc.Prof. Makoto Yamada
OIST
Current collaborator in machine learning and data science research.
Prof. Guoying Zhao
University of Oulu
Collaborator in computer vision and representation learning.
Dr. Ehsan Adeli
Stanford University
Collaborator in robust machine learning and computer vision.
Prof. Mahmood Fathy
Iran University of Science and Technology
My Master and Phd Supervsiour.
Assoc.Prof. Mohammad Hossein Rohban
Sharif University of Technology
Collaborator in machine learning, anomaly detection, and trustworthy AI.