About

I am a student at ENS-PSL, where I am pursuing an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science on the cognitive modeling, neurotheory, and AI track. I am currently a Research Assistant at the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR), Sorbonne Université, working with Dr. Heike Stein on the dynamics of head-direction circuits (basically, how your brain always knows which way you're facing).

I am interested in questions where abstract mathematics bumps into something recognizably alive. My work currently sits at the intersection of computational neuroscience and probabilistic machine learning. I build Gaussian Process dynamical models, and Bayesian inference frameworks to understand how brains represent space and make decisions.

Before Paris, I studied electrical engineering at the University of Tehran, coached a world-finalist ICPC team, taught astronomy, co-ran a theater club, and worked as a part-time data analyst. I genuinely think all of it connects and figuring out how is half the fun.

When I'm not doing science, I'm reading about the history of it, exploring the messy human process that leads to these clean results. The rest of the time I'm on foot somewhere in Paris.