About Me

I’m a final year MSc student in Artificial Intelligence at Iran’s University of Science and Technology and I’m fortunate to be advised by Mohammad Taher Pilehvar.

My research interests are in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning. In particular, I started with evaluating and interpreting Pre-trained Language Models (PLM), and my current research focuses on how to improve PLMs using interpretation methodologies.

P.S. My full name is Seyed MohammadAli Modarressi, but since Ali is my preferred name, I’m going by that in my writings and publications.

News

• Sep 2021: Two papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2021 (main conference & BlackboxNLP).
• May 2021: At the TeIAS graduate NLP course, I co-presented (w. Hosein Mohebbi) a guest lecture on interpretability.
• Apr 2021: Our intepretability work is now available: Exploring the Role of BERT Token Representations to Explain Sentence Probing Results