Ali Abbasi

Vanderbilt University, Department of Computer Science.

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373 Featheringill-Jacobs Hall

400 24th Ave S

Nashville, TN 37235

My name is Ali Abbasi. I’m a first-year computer science Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University, doing research in Machine Intelligence and Neural Technologies (MINT) Lab under the supervision of Dr. Soheil Kolouri. Prior to joining Vanderbilt, I obtained my B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran in 2020.

My research interest lies in the intersection of computer vision and reinforcement learning. I’m curious to know how machines can efficiently see, learn, and interact with their environment through simulating a human-like learning experience.

My hobbies are running, lifting weights, and hiking but I’d cancel all of them if someone invites me to play poker.

news

Dec 6, 2021 I am delighted to announce that beginning the January of 2022, I will be joining the wonderful scholarly community of Vanderbilt University as a Ph.D. student in the department of computer science! 😃

selected publications

  1. Sparsity and Heterogeneous Dropout for Continual Learning in the Null Space of Neural Activations
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.06514 2022