About Me!
I am Zahra, a Ph.D. student at IRLab, University of Amsterdam (UVA). I have completed my MSC with focus on Question Answering systems at the Computer Engineering Department of the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnics) in the field of Artificial Intelligence. I have also obtained my B.Sc. degree in Software Engineering from AUT.
As a Ph.D. student at IRLab, I am working on Conversational Search and Recommendation. Also, I'm co-organizing iKAT track of TREC (2023) with a focus on personalized conversation IR systems.
- Information Retrieval
- Conversational Search
- Personalized Conversational Agents
- Recommender Systems
- Question Answering Systems
Education
Jan 2023 - Now
Ph.D. Student
IRLab, University of Amsterdam (UVA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project: Conversational Search and Recommendation
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
University Researcher
LIACS (Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science), Leiden, The Netherlands
Project: Patent mining for EPO
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
M.Sc. of Computer Engineering - Artificial Intelligence
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnics), Tehran, Iran
Thesis: Text-based Question Answering with Deep Attentional Neural Networks
Sep 2014 - Sep 2018
B.Sc. of Computer Engineering - Software Engineering
Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnics), Tehran, Iran
Thesis: Big Data Storage and Retrieval in Form of a Data Lake
Sep 2007 - Sep 2014
High School - Mathematics and Physics
National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (Sampad), Farzanegan one, Hamedan, Iran
Publications
Books
Teaching Assistance
July 2021 - Sep 2021
An introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Instructed by Dr. Saeedeh Momtazi in Hamrah Academy
Responsibilities: Recording videos to teach implementation of course materials
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Information Retrieval and Web Search
Instructed by Dr. Saeedeh Momtazi
Responsibilities: Designing and Grading Assignments and Projects
Feb 2019 - Jul 2019
Machine Learning
Instructed by Dr. Ehsan Nazerfard
Responsibilities: Designing and Grading Assignments, and tutoring classes
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Artificial Intelligence
Instructed by Dr. Ahmad Nikabadi
Responsibilities: Designing and Grading Assignments
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
System Design and Analysis
Instructed by Mr. Bahman Pourvatan
Responsibilities: Team coordinating, Teaching classes, Design and grading assignments and projects
Feb 2016 - Jul 2016
Advanced Computer Programming
Instructed by Mr. Bahman Pourvatan
Responsibilities: Team coordinating, Teaching classes, Design and grading assignments and projects
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Principals Of Computer And Programming
Instructed by Mr. Bahman Pourvatan
Responsibilities: Team coordinating, Teaching classes, Design and grading assignments and projects
Awards
July 2022 - Madrid, Spain
Received SIGIR Registration Grant from WIR (Woman In the IR)
Jan 2020 - Passau, Germany
Invited to Exchange Program, the University of Passau invited me to study the summer semester of the academic year of 2019/20 as an exchange student.
2020 - Tehran, Iran
Ranked 1 based on GPA among all of the students in Artificial Intelligence, Amirkabir University of Technology.
2017 - Tehran, Iran
Offered direct admission to graduate school, Artificial Intelligence Amirkabir University of Technology.
2014 - Iran
Ranked 212 in the National University Entrance Exam among more than 70,000 students in mathematics and Physics, Iran.
2018 - Tehran, Iran
Ranked 5 based on GPA among all of the students in Software Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology.
Contact Me!
Address:
Lab42
Science Park 900
1098 XH Amsterdam
Email:
zahraabbasiyantaeb[at]gmail[dot]com
z.abbasiantaeb[at]uva[dot]nl