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General Information

Full Name Alireza Dehghanpour Farashah
Date of Birth 6th January 2001
Languages English, Persian, French

Education

  • Aug 2024 - Present
    PhD in Computer Science
    McGill University, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
    • {"GPA"=>"4.0/4.0"}
    • Department of Computer Science
    • Research focus on trustworthy and responsible machine learning
  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2023
    Bachelor of Science
    Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
    • Computer Engineering
    • {"GPA"=>"19.45/20 (Top 10%)"}
    • {"Last two years average grade"=>"19.66/20"}

Skills

  • Programming Languages
    • Python
    • C
    • C++
    • Java
  • Frameworks & Libraries
    • PyTorch
    • TensorFlow
    • Keras
    • Scikit-learn
    • NumPy
    • Pandas
    • OpenMIM
    • MLflow
  • Tools
    • Git
    • PostgreSQL
    • MySQL
    • SQLite
  • Operating Systems
    • Linux
    • Windows
  • CAD & Simulation Tools
    • Proteus
    • ModelSim
    • Packet Tracer
    • Arena
    • Wireshark
    • Arduino
  • Soft Skills
    • Communication
    • Teamwork
    • Problem-solving
    • Flexibility

Publications

  • 2025
    • Localized-attention-guided concept erasure for text-to-image diffusion models, NeurIPS 2025 Workshop (Equal contribution)
    • Unlearning Geo-Cultural Stereotypes in Multilingual LLMs, ICLR 2025 Workshop
  • 2023
    • Blacksmith: Fast Adversarial Training of Vision Transformers via a Mixture of Single-step and Multi-step Methods, arXiv:2310.18975

Research Experience

  • Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
    Summer Intern
    Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
    • Supervised by Prof. Farzan Farnia
    • Research on low-rank adversarial attacks and Schatten-1 norm attacks
  • Oct 2022 - Jan 2024
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Robust and Interpretable Machine Learning Lab (RIMLab), Sharif University of Technology
    • Supervised by Prof. Mohammad Hossein Rohban
    • Research on adversarial robustness and fast adversarial training for Vision Transformers
  • Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Data Analytics Lab, Sharif University of Technology
    • Supervised by Prof. Seyed Abolfazl Motahari
    • Research on NLP and speech recognition, including Wav2Vec 2.0

Work Experience

  • Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
    Medical Image Analyst
    Zista Gene Afarin
    • White blood cell classification
    • Large-scale tissue histopathology image analysis
  • Nov 2021 - Jul 2022
    NLP Researcher
    Iran’s National Elites Foundation
    • Trigger word detection, voice assistants, speaker recognition

Teaching Experience

  • Fall 2025
    • IFT 6135 Representation Learning, Teaching Assistant
  • 2020 - 2023
    • Artificial Intelligence (TA)
    • Machine Learning (TA)
    • Compiler Design (TA)
    • Engineering Probability and Statistics (TA)

Honors and Awards

  • 2019
    • 33rd in the Nationwide University Entrance Exam among over 160,000
  • 2024 - 2025
    • Graduate Excellence Award (McGill)
    • Kharusi Family International Science Fellowship (McGill)
    • FRQNT Fellowship

Research Interests

  • Text-to-Image Models
  • Vision-Language Models
  • Machine Unlearning
  • Robustness
  • Responsible AI
  • Trustworthy Machine Learning

Languages

English Fluent – TOEFL iBT 105 (R26, L30, S24, W25)
French Elementary
Persian Native