About Me


I have a PhD in Telecommunication Engineering and Computer Sceince worked at the biometrics and data pattern analytics lab (BidaLab), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. I work as a researcher at the Intelligent Multimodal Vision Analysis (IMVA group), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) on 2D/3D Head Pose Estimation.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am interested in computer vision using deep learning and machine learning. In particular, I am obsessed with the security and privacy aspects of artificial intelligence.

BACKGROUND

I obtained my B.S. in Computer Science from the Islamic Azad University, in Iran, in 2011, and my M.S. in Informtion Security and Assurance in 2016. In Februray 2021, I started my PhD studies on biometrics using computer vision, and deep learning with a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship in the EU ITN research program PriMa and I finished my PhD in June 2024. Throughout my doctoral research, I specialized in machine learning where I investigated state-of-the-art computer vision problems including adversarial examples, image morphing, and federated learning on deep neural networks and I published my findings in prestigious venues.

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Selected Publications


Updates


  • Jun 2024: Joining Intelligent Multimodal Vision Analysis (IMVA group) in Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) as a researcher working on Head Pose Estimation in European project Emerald
  • May 2024: Accepted paper! SaFL: Sybil-aware Federated Learning with Application to Face Recognition at ICIP 2024
  • Mar 2024: Defending PhD! Granted with rank Cum Laude (The most honorable rank for doing PhD in Spain)
  • Dec 2023: Accepted Paper! Optimizing Key-Selection for Face-Based One-Time Biometrics via Morphing at WIFS2023 (Access here)
  • Oct 2023: Speaking at the Biometric Institute Congress 2023
  • Aug 2023: Blog post: Explainability and its Role to Provide Benevolent Artificial Intelligence (Read here)
  • Jul 2023: Attending Cambridge Ellis Unit Summer School on Probabilistic Machine Learning 2023 at the University of Cambridge
  • Jun 2023: Paper accepted! Toward Face Biometric De-identification using Adversarial Examples at Compsac2023
  • Jun 2023 - Aug 2023: Visiting researcher at competence center Smart Living & Biometric Technologies, Fraunhofer IGD, Germany
  • Feb 2023: Paper accepted! Toward Face Biometric De-identification using Adversarial Examples at AAAI2023 workshops (See here)
  • Sep 2022: Presenting OTB-Morph at EAB RPC 2022 concurrent with BioSig 2022
  • Jun 2022: Paper accepted! Extended abstrat OTB-Morph at CVPR 2022 workshops (See here)
  • Jun 2022 - Aug 2022: Visiting researcher at Data management & Biometrics (DMB) group, University of Twente, Netherlands
  • May 2022: Blog post: When privacy faces the security on the battlefield (Read here)
  • Jan 2022: Paper accepted! OTB-morph: One-Time Biometrics via Morphing applied to Face Templates at WACV2022 - Workshop on Manipulation, Adversarial, and Presentation Attacks in Biometrics (Watch here)
  • Feb 2021: Accepted to Universidad Autonoma de Madrid withing EU ITM project PriMa