Sahand Sabour
Research Assistant at Tsinghua University
Haidian District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolSahand Sabour is a Ph.D. student and research assistant at Tsinghua University with eight years of software engineering experience, focused on empathetic dialogue systems and using conversational AI for mental health and emotional support. With a strong academic record (MS and ongoing PhD at Tsinghua, undergraduate from XJTLU) he blends rigorous research with hands-on engineering from prior front-end and back-end roles. His work sits at the intersection of advanced computing and human-centered AI, informed by practical experience helping international students and volunteering with special-needs programs. Based in Beijing's Haidian District, he contributes to the Conversational AI lab and seeks collaborations that turn empathy-aware models into useful, real-world tools.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Undergraduate, Computer Science and Technology, 3.89, Undergraduate, Computer Science and Technology, 3.89 at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Technology, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Technology, 4.0 at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (23)
emotion10
leaderboard10
graph-embedding10
dialogue-systems10
natural-language-processing10
conversational-ai10
nlp10
persona10
gnn-model9
pytorch9
python9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
gnn8
graph6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Sahandfer/EMPaper
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
This is a repository for sharing papers in the field of empathetic conversational AI. The related source code for each paper is linked if available.
Contributions:88 commits, 2 PRs, 99 pushes in 2 years 1 month
pytorchnlpartdeep-learningconversational
Sahandfer/XJTLU
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:46 commits, 19 pushes in 2 months
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