About Me
My name is Parishad BehnamGhader. I am currently a graduate student at the McGill NLP research group at McGill University and Mila, Montreal, Canada under Prof. Siva Reddy’s supervision. 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 am currently working on the reasoning ability of retriever-based large language models.
Publications
Experiences
Supervised by Prof. Siva Reddy
Supervised by Prof. Mahdieh Soleymani
Supervised by Prof. Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
Education
GPA: 4.0/4
I started my studies at McGill University as a master’s student and fast-tracked to PhD in Jan 2024.
GPA: 18.83/20
Thesis Project: “Graph-based Word Embedding using Deep Neural Networks”, under the supervision of Prof. Mahdieh Soleymani
GPA: 18.75/20
Thesis Project: “Prediction of Products’ Features’ Rates with Sentiment Analysis”, under the supervision of Prof. Mahdieh Soleymani
GPA: 19.85/20
Honors & Awards
among almost 20,000 participants
among over 190,000 participants
in Junior Demo Open Challenge league