I am a PhD student at School of Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and a Research Assistant at Biometric Group in Idiap Research Institute under supervision of Prof. Marcel and Prof. Alahi. Recently, I was a Research Scientist Intern at J&J Innovative Medicine. Previously I got my masters in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, under supervision of Dr. Arash Amini.
Before starting my PhD I was lead research engineer at MCI.
My main research interest is Synthetic Data Generation and its application in various Computer Vision tasks. Specifically my current approach is to study if it is possible to use the Generative Models like StyleGANs, Diffusion and Flows to further enhance the Discriminative models (e.g., Classifiers). Conceptually this have some common grounds with Analysis by Synthesis idea. In essence my work is to study that can the Visual Generative Models be USEFUL beside the entertainment industry or not.
