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Yasaman Saffari

PhD Candidate - Kashan University, Iran

Email: yasamansaffarii@gmail.com | Phone: +989377553756| Location: Iran, Tehran

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About me

I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. at Kashan University, under the guidance of Dr. Salimi. My primary research focus revolves around Task-based Dialogue Systems within the framework of Reinforcement Learning (RL). Specifically, my work is dedicated to advancing Attentional and Graph-based methodologies for learning structural state representations by incorporating both contextual and topological information in RL environments. Additionally, I explore Model-free RL algorithms, particularly variants of Deep Q-Networks (DQN), aiming to enhance policy learning within discrete state-action spaces, with a special emphasis on dialogue systems.

Current Interests AND Skills

Dialogue Systems, Reinforcement learning, Attentional Based State Representation, Topological State Representation (Graphs), Node2Vec, GraphSage, Python, Tensorflow (Keras)

Education

PhD in Artificial Intelligence (2020 - Present): Superviser: Dr. Javad Salimi Sartakhti, Kashan University, Iran

  • Research: Dialogue Systems, Reinforcement Learning, State Representation Learning, Graph Representation Learning, Attention and Transformers
  • GPA: 3.81

Master of Arts - Intelligent Simulator Design (2017 - 2019): Superviser: Dr. Abbass Ghaffari, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Iran

  • Thesis: Investigating the Effective Variables of Speech Phonology at the Audience Origin Using the Simulation of Lasting Voices in Dubbing (Voice Cloning using Deep Neural Networks)
  • GPA: 3.79

Bachelor of Software Computer Engineering (2014 - 2017): Superviser: Mr. Yousef MusaZadeh, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Iran

  • Thesis: Blood Laboratory Website Design (PHP)
  • GPA: 3.46

Publications

Not published (Y Saffari, J Salimi Sartakhti)

  1. StateStruc: Infused Graph-Structural State Embeddings in Dialogue System (Under Prep)
  2. CODACAN : Distributional Actor Critic with Hierarchical Attention-based State Representation for Dialogue Policy Learning (Under review: Knowledge-Based Systems)

Published

  1. Y Saffari, J Salimi Sartakhti, "Actor Double Critic Architecture for Dialogue System," Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Innovations (JECEI), 11 (2), 2023
  2. SA Faregh, Y Saffari, M Jafari Sisis, "The Impact of Gamification on the Teaching and Learning Process of Conflict Management," Technology of Education Journal (TEJ), 15 (4), 657-672, 2021
  3. Y Saffari, A Ghaffari, L Dobakhi, B Alizade-Ashrafi, "Computer Games for Dubbing Teaching: The 'Dublor Sho' Game," The 5th International Conference on Computer Games; Challenges and Opportunities, 2020
  4. Y Saffari, S Nasre-Esfahani, R Hayati, Y Sekhavat, " Eng Title: Investigating the effectiveness of teaching based on movement imitation in a virtual reality environment for Azari dance," The 4th International Conference on Computer Games; Challenges and Opportunities, 2019

Lab and Visiting Experience

  • Acoustic Lab Researcher (Sep 2019 - Jan 2020): Co-Established and managed the Acoustic Lab (Master's Thesis), MultiMedia Dept., Tabriz Islamic Art Univ., Iran
  • VR Lab Development and Research (Sep 2018 - June 2019): Co-Established and managed the VR + Mocap lab (Master research), MultiMedia Dept., Tabriz Islamic Art Univ., Iran
  • Internship: Web Developer (Feb 2016 - June 2016): Co-Established and managed the Acoustic Lab (Master's Thesis), MultiMedia Dept., Tabriz Islamic Art Univ., Iran
  • Visiting student (Jun 2014 - Sep 2014): Course: Engineering Statistics, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Teaching Experience

  • Invited Lecturer (Feb 2022 - Present): Simulation and Modeling of System 2 (Python and ML in Game and Art) (Master students), MultiMedia Dept., Tabriz Islamic Art Univ., Iran (2 semesters)
  • Teaching Assistant (Sep 2023 - Present): Game Theory, Kashan University, Iran
  • Invited Lecturer (Feb 2021 - Jun 2022): Sound Prod. & Design (Music - FL Studio) (Bachelor students), MultiMedia Dept., Tabriz Islamic Art Univ., Iran (3 semesters)
  • Teaching Assistant (Feb 2019 - Jun 2019): Simulation and Modeling of System 1 (VR lab) (Master students), MultiMedia Dept., Tabriz Islamic Art Univ., Iran
  • Teaching Assistant (Sep 2015 - Feb 2016): Microprocessors and Assembly Language (Dr. Hassan Seyed Razi) Book: AVR microcontrollers by Dr. Hassan Seyed Razi, Kian Univ. Press, Shariaty Technical and Vocational Univ., Iran
  • Teaching Assistant (Sep 2014 - Feb 2015): Electric Circuits Book: Fundamental Theory of Circuits and Networks, Vol. 1 (Ernest Cough - Charles Deso), Shariaty Technical and Vocational Univ., Iran
  • Private Tutoring: Personalized instruction in high school-level math and physics, incl. teaching classmates., Zahra Mardani(2) High school

Projects

  • Dialogue system (2019-Present) PHD thesis, (DRL, GRL, State tracking, Attention mechanism) (Supervisor: Dr. Salimi)
  • Air Pollution Prediction (Apr 2023 - Apr 2023)
  • Car Plate Detection (Yolo5) (Jan 2022 - July 2022) Big project - non-academic (Supervisor: Dr. Salimi)
  • Troublesome Travel Game (2020) The first rank of Global Game Jam 2020 (lOC: Sharif Univ.
  • Voice Cloning of Voice Actors Using Deep Learning (Feb 2019 - Feb 2020) Master's thesis
  • Virtual Dance Training System (VR+Mocap) (Sep 2018 - May 2019) Fourth international exhibition of Tabriz creativity and innovation in handicrafts and Islamic arts International Exhibition - Multimedia Pavilion
  • Music Playlist Explorer Assistant (Sep 2018 - Feb 2019) Voice search and speech to text conversion
  • Implementation of Laboratory and Blood Bank Website (PHP) (Sep 2016 - July 2017) Thesis project for the Bachelor degree, Professor Musa Zadeh
  • Implementation of the Library Website (Feb 2016 - Aug 2016): PHP

Recent Small Projects:

  • Fine_Tune_XLSR_Wav2Vec2_FA (Apr 2023 - Apr 2023) Online speech to text (VAD)
  • Spell Checker FA (May 2023 - May 2023) bert-base-parsbert-uncased
  • COVID-19 Prediction (June 2021 - Sep 2021): RNN
  • Implmentation: ESS for Pool Population in the Presence of BWA Attack (Feb 2021 - Aug 2021)
  • Face Mask Recognition (Feb 2021 - July 2021): VGG, Hopfield
  • Bert-fa-finetune (Jan 2021 - June 2021): Non-academic
  • Handwritten Digit Recognition (Farsi) (Jan 2021 - June 2021): MLP
  • POS Tagging FA (Sep 2020 - Feb 2021) Bi-LSTM-CNN
  • Face Recognition (Sep 2020 - Feb 2021): Paper implementation: Dissimilarity-based nearest neighbor classifier for single-sample face recognition (Zhengqi Zhang, Li Zhang, Meng Zhang)

Awards

  • The 3rd place of Persian llm-hackathon in "selection stage" (2024): quera- Results
  • Full fund with quota of brilliant talents (Sep 2020 - Present): Kashan University, Iran - PhD position in AI, Computer Engineering
  • The second rank of graduation of the master's degree (Feb 2020): Tabriz Islamic Art University, Iran - MultiMedia Department
  • The first rank of Global Game Jam 2020 (2020): Sharif University Of Technology - Code and Play: troublesome-travel
  • Winning the second place in the egg throwing competition of Shariati College (2014): Shariaty Technical and Vocational University
  • Awarded a prestigious full-fund scholarship from Allameh Tabatabai elite pre-university (2012)
  • Obtaining the second place in the region in drawing with colored pencils (2011): Zahra Mardani High School for Girls 2, Tehran, Iran
  • Passing the first stage of the National Computer Olympiad (2010): Zahra Mardani High School for Girls 2, Tehran, Iran
  • Obtaining the first place in the Robocup competition of the 10th region of Tehran province (2010): Zahra Mardani High School for Girls 2, Tehran, Iran