Parishad Behnamghader
PhD Student at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolParishad Behnamghader is a PhD student at Mila with nine years of experience bridging academic research and applied machine learning. She has an MSc from Sharif University of Technology and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at McGill, focusing on problems at the intersection of AI theory and practice. Her recent internship at Borealis AI and prior research stints, including at the Max Planck Institute, reflect a strong track record in research-driven ML development. Parishad combines rigorous academic training with hands-on experience in industry settings, shipping experiments and prototypes that inform production models. Colleagues describe her as methodical and curious, often pursuing unconventional modeling angles that reveal hidden structure in data. Based in Montreal, she brings international academic depth and practical research experience to applied AI challenges.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, 18.83, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, 18.83 at Sharif University of TechnologyFarzanegan2 Highschool (NODET)Soodeh Educational ComplexDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at McGill University
English, French, Persian, Arabic
Github Skills (23)
knn-classification7
retrieval4
svm4
django3
atlas3
machine-learning3
text-classification2
information-retrieval2
python2
arxiv2
sentence-similarity2
nlp2
few-shot-learning2
natural-language-processing2
django-rest-framework2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ParishadBehnam/EbayPasswordResearch
May 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
McGill-NLP/retriever-lm-reasoning
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Code for "Can Retriever-Augmented Language Models Reason? The Blame Game Between the Retriever and the Language Model", EMNLP Findings 2023
Contributions:1 commit, 24 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 day
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