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Hello! I’m

Ali Nafisi

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I recently completed my MS in AI at Bu-Ali Sina University. I earned my BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Kurdistan in 2023.

My research experience is rooted in Deep Learning, specifically Natural Language Processing, Multimodal Models, and AI Safety. I am now aiming to expand my research scope to explore Neuro-Symbolic AI and Reinforcement Learning.

News

September 2026

Defended my MS thesis and graduated with an MS in AI. πŸŽ“ Thesis code.

April 2026

Our paper on Mechanistic Interpretability of LLMs has been accepted to ACL! πŸŽ‰

November 2025

Ranked πŸ₯‡ 1st in the Rayan International AI Contest! The technical report of our solutions is available on arXiv.

May 2025

Ranked 3rd in the SUT LLM Agents Hackathon! πŸ†

Publications

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H. Hasani | M. Banayeeanzade | A. Nafisi | S. Mohammadian | F. Askari | M. Bagherian | A. Izadi | M. Soleymani Baghshah
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S. Bourbour Hosseinbeigi | M. SeifKashani | J. Seraj | F. Taherinezhad | A. Nafisi | F. Nadi | I. Barati | H. Hasani | M. Amiri | M. Masoudi
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F. Daneshfar | S. Soleymanbaigi | A. Nafisi | P. Yamini

Experience

Graduate Research Assistant

Developed my master's thesis on mitigating spurious correlations in image datasets via counterfactual image augmentation, under the supervision of Prof. Hassan Khotanlou.

Research Assistant

Machine Learning Lab

Nov 2025 - Feb 2026

Research on mechanistic interpretability of LLMs, resulting in a publication at ACL 2026, under the supervision of Dr. Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah.

AI Engineer

Matina

Part-time

Apr 2024 - Jan 2025

Investigated and implemented culturally-aligned LLM post-training approaches by creating specialized datasets and leveraging Multiple LoRA Experts, resulting in the model Matina and a published paper at ACL 2025.

Honors & Achievements

Nov 2025

1st place in the Rayan International AI Contest

May 2025

3rd place in the LLM Agents Hackathon

March 2024

2nd Place in the Quera Large Language Model Hackathon

June 2023

3rd Place in the 28th Computer Engineering regional Olympiad (Region 5)