Wrapping up my PhD in CS @ UQAM 🌻 I do NLP research on low-resource languages and multi-modal neural machine translation. currently making machines understand Rumi 💛
🌞 what I'm working on
fine-tuning LLMs for culture-aware translation of classical Persian poetry, fusing text + speech for richer context, and designing evaluation methods that go beyond standard metrics to capture cultural fidelity.
🌼 A little about me
🎓 soon-to-graduate PhD ✨
🗣️ Persian (native), English (fluent), French (intermediate)
🌱 I also learned a bit of Innu-Aimun: Kuei, tan eshpanin? ;) (hello, how are you?)