• Hi!
    I'm Soheil

    I am a computer scientist, an applied NLP resarcher, and a computational linguist.

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About

Who Am I?

I am a Computer Science Ph.D. student at University of British Columbia, also a member of NLP research group at UBC. Currently, I am working under the supervision of Professor Raymond Ng and Professor Vered Shwartz. Previously, as a member of Natural Language Dialogue research group at USC Institute for Creative Technologies, I had the honor of working with Professor David Traum. Broadly speaking, my research area includes:

Convesational AI

Question Answering

Multimodal Dialogue Systems

Recommendation Systems

Search

Commonsense Reasoning

Education

Education

University of British Columbia

Ph.D. in Computer science (2021-Present)

University of Southern California

Master of Science in Computer Science (2020)

Sharif University of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering (2016)

Sharif University of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering (double major) (2016)

Experiences

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Research Assistant

NLP group, University of British Columbia, Canada

2021-Present
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Machine Learning / NLP Research Intern

Apple Maps Search Team, Apple Inc., USA

Summer 2020
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Research Assistant

Natural Language Dialogue group, Institute for Creative Technologies, USC

2018-2021 | Advisor: David Traum
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Research Assistant

Software Quality Lab,
University of Southern California

2016-2017 | Advisor: William GJ Halfond
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Research Assistant

Intelligence and Knowledge Discovery (INK) Research Lab, University of Southern California

Spring 2018 | Advisor: Xiang Ren
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Research Assistant

Machine INtelligence and Data Science (MINDS) research group, Information Sciences Institute, USC

Fall 2017 | Advisor: Greg Ver Steeg
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Research Assistant

Smart Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology

2014-2016 | Advisor: Maziar Goodarzi

Publications

Overview of the ninth dialog system technology challenge: Dstc9

Chulaka Gunasekara, Seokhwan Kim, Luis Fernando D'Haro, Abhinav Rastogi, Yun-Nung Chen, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu, Chao-Wei Huang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Jinchao Li, Qi Zhu, Lingxiao Luo, Lars Liden, Kaili Huang, Shahin Shayandeh, Runze Liang, Baolin Peng, Zheng Zhang, Swadheen Shukla, Minlie Huang, Jianfeng Gao, Shikib Mehri, Yulan Feng, Carla Gordon, Seyed Hossein Alavi, David Traum, Maxine Eskenazi, Ahmad Beirami, Paul A Crook, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Shivani Poddar, Rajen Subba
To Appear: AAAI 2021.

Projects

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A Generative Deep Learning Architecture Exploiting From Transformers

Design and implement a generative deep learning model for the task of choosing the next best response for the given dialogue, exploiting from Transformers.

2019
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Dialogue App for Endangered Languages (DAPEL)

Investigate using a dialogue system to preserve endangered languages, and the viability of a multilingual dialogue system to generate a general use corpus of audio responses.

2019

Deep Neural Net End to End Dialogue System

Build a sequence to sequence neural network dialogue manager, based on dual-encoder model's architecture, as an alternative to the previously existing dialogue manager of New Dimensions in Testimony (NDT) system.

2018
My Specialty

My Skills

Languages

Python

Java

C++

SQL

HTML

CSS

Java Script

PHP

MATLAB

Technologies

Libraries:
Pytorch, Tensorflow, Scikit, Soot, JavaFX
Platforms:
Google cloud, AWS
Mobile/Web:
Android, Django, NodeJS
Get in Touch

Contact

Email Address:

salavis[at]cs[dot]ubc[dot]edu