People
Current Team
Researchers
Dr. Bahram Mohammadi
Researcher
OISTResearch area: Trustworthy and reliable language models.
Amir Hossein Yari
Researcher
SharifResearch area: Multilingual language models, reasoning, reliability and alignment.
Ali Amini Manesh
Researcher
ITUResearch area: Industrial anomaly detection using vision-language models and AI agents.
Aref Mousavi
Researcher
SharifResearch area: Robust and trustworthy speech AI.
Alireza Dastmalchi Saei
Researcher
BilkentResearch area: Vision-language models and anomaly detection.
Research Assistants
Parsa Gholami
Research Assistant
Research area: Vision-language models and anomaly detection.
Dilshodbek Ikromov
Research Assistant
NewUUResearch area: Vision-language models (VLMs) for anomaly detection.
PhD Students
AhmadReza Moradzade
PhD Student · Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) · 2023–Present
IPMCurrent status: PhD student.
Research area: Robust learning with noisy data.
Past Members and Alumni
Past Members
Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr. Fatemeh Aghaeipoor
Postdoctoral Researcher · 2020–2023
AlzahraCurrent status: Assistant Professor at Alzahra University.
Project: Investigating explainable AI with a focus on transformers.
Dr. Zahra Rezvani
Postdoctoral Researcher · 2020–2023
AlzahraCurrent status: Assistant Professor at Alzahra University.
Project: Local / global feature analysis in CNNs.
Research Assistants
Mohammadreza Salehi
Research Assistant · Sharif University · 2021–2022
SharifCurrent status: University of Amsterdam.
Associated work: ICLR 2023, TMLR 2022.
Hossein Mirzaei
Research Assistant · Sharif University · 2022–2024
SharifCurrent status: Doctoral Assistant, EPFL.
Associated work: ICLR 2023, CVPR 2024, ICASSP 2024.
Fatemeh Jabbari
Research Assistant · IPM · 2021–2023
IPMCurrent status: PhD student at the University of Bonn.
Worked on group research projects.
Mozhgan Pourkeshavarz
Research Assistant · IPM · 2020–2021
IPMCurrent status: PhD student, Robotics Institute, University of Toronto, Canada.
Associated work: ICLR 2022, CVPR 2024.
Vahid Reza Khazaie
Past Research Assistant
VectorCurrent status: Research Scientist at Vector Institute, Canada.
Bardia Esmaeili
Past Research Assistant
YorkCurrent status: PhD student at York University, Canada.
PhD Students
Dr. Mohammad Hajizade
PhD Student · Iran University of Science and Technology · 2018–2024
IUSTCurrent status: CTO, Part AI Research Center.
Thesis: Lightweight Object Detection using DNN.
Dr. Marzieh Esmaeil
PhD Student · Tehran University of Medical Sciences · 2020–2024
TUMSCurrent 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
Tehran AzadCurrent 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
IUSTCurrent status: Graduated and moved to past members.
Thesis: OOD Generalization in Continual Learning.
Mohsen Fayyaz
Master’s Student · MUT, Tehran · 2016–2017
MUTCurrent status: Senior Scientist at Microsoft. I was his advisor.
Associated work: TIP, ACCV 2019, ACCV 2016, CVIU.
Dr. Mohammad Khalooie
Master’s Student · MUT, Tehran · 2017–2018
MUTCurrent 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
MUTCurrent status: Computer Vision researcher at Western University.
Associated work: WACV 2021, ACCV 2018, ESWA.
Mohammad Hajizadeh Saffar
Master’s Student · MUT, Tehran · 2015–2017
MUTCurrent status: Past student.
Associated work: ACCV 2016, MVIP 2015.
Interns
Solale Mohammadi
Intern · Sharif University
SharifCurrent status: PhD student at the University of Maryland, USA.
Project: Semantic Backdoor Attack for Videos.
Pengfei He
Intern · PhD Student, University of Michigan
MichiganCurrent status: PhD student at the University of Michigan.
Project: Sampling for Backdoor Attacks.
Naghmeh Jamali
Intern · Master’s Student, IPM
IPMCurrent status: Past intern.
Project: Backdoor Attack for NLP.
Laura Medinilla
Intern · PhD Student, KAUST
KAUSTCurrent status: Current Research Scientist.
Project: AI for Genome Analysis.
Alireza Salehi
Former Research Assistant and Intern · University of Tehran · 2025–2026
U TehranCurrent status: PhD student at the University of Manchester; still actively collaborating with the group.
Focus: anomaly detection and foundation-model-based vision research. Associated work: CRANE (BMVC 2026) and TIPS Over Tricks (ICASSP 2026).
Parsa Hosseini
Intern · Bachelor’s Student, Sharif University
SharifCurrent status: PhD student at the University of Maryland, USA.
Project: Brainwash Continual Learning.
Jose Renato Restom Viera
Intern · PhD Student, MBZUAI
MBZUAICurrent status: Past intern.
Project: Novelty Category Discovery.
Raha Ahmadi
Intern · Bachelor’s Student, University of Amirkabir
AmirkabirCurrent status: University of British Columbia.
Project: Mitigating Bias for Image Classification.
Leili Barekatain
Intern · Bachelor’s Student, University of Amirkabir
AmirkabirCurrent status: Master’s student at Imperial College London.
Project: Explaining Transformers.
Mohammad Javad Rajabi
Intern · Bachelor’s Student, University of Amirkabir
AmirkabirCurrent status: PhD student at the University of Toronto | Vector Institute.
Project: Mitigating Bias for Image Classification.
Selected Collaborators
Assoc. Prof. Makoto Yamada
OIST
OISTCurrent collaborator in machine learning and data science research.
Prof. Guoying Zhao
University of Oulu
OuluCollaborator in computer vision and representation learning.
Dr. Ehsan Adeli
Stanford University
StanfordCollaborator in robust machine learning and computer vision.
Prof. Mahmood Fathy
Iran University of Science and Technology
IUSTMy Master and PhD supervisor.
Assoc. Prof. Mohammad Hossein Rohban
Sharif University of Technology
SharifCollaborator in machine learning, anomaly detection, and trustworthy AI.