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
Supervised by Prof. Siva Reddy
Supervised by Siqi Liu and Eric Jiawei He
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