Experience

Senior AI & Data Science Expert

AcademicTransfer, Utrecht, Netherlands

• Technical lead of the AI intelligence layer and applicant-tracking system for AcademicTransfer, used by 22 Dutch research universities and university medical centres: CV creation and revision, semantic search, talent-pool matching, and best-candidate identification.
• Technical lead of a recognition-and-rewards policy analysis with Dr. Sanli Faez (Universiteiten van Nederland) and university policy makers across the Netherlands.
• Developing a new e-learning programme with the University of Amsterdam for PhD candidates and researchers.

AI & Data Science Expert

AcademicTransfer, Utrecht, Netherlands

• Developed the CV Priority Sorter using active learning and LLMs, reducing HR hiring time by 20%.
• Built end-to-end generative AI pipelines that process 10,000+ applications per month.
• Improved candidate–job alignment accuracy by 17% and halved manual effort.
• Deployed transformer-based models on Azure ML with MLflow, Docker, and CI/CD; used A/B tests, uplift analysis, and bandit simulations to evaluate ranking and recommendation models.

Researcher & NLP Developer

Utrecht University School of Economics — FIRMBACKBONE project

• Developed the fbb-sustainability-analysis-cli tool for sustainability content analysis.
• Created a keyword extractor and index generator for sustainability scoring of company websites.

Senior Data Scientist, Customer Behavior

SnowaTec (Innovation Center), Entekhab Electronic, Tehran, Iran

• Managed the enterprise data warehouse with modern ETL tooling, improving data accessibility by 16%.
• Implemented ML-based customer segmentation, boosting marketing impact by 7.5%.
• Defined KPIs and a customer satisfaction index that lifted satisfaction by 2%.

Head of Data Science & BI Team

Bdood.bikes (shared bicycle system), Tehran, Iran

• Implemented dynamic pricing and ML-based usage predictions, increasing revenue by 5%.
• Optimized fleet intelligence, cutting maintenance costs by 8% and relocation costs by 3%.
• Led user-behavior analyses that improved customer retention by 4.5%.
• Built dashboards with Power BI, Streamlit, and Dash Plotly, boosting engagement by 3%, efficiency by 7%, and station space utilisation by 11%.

Data Scientist

Bdood.bikes (shared bicycle system), Tehran, Iran

• Led predictive-maintenance analysis and battery-health algorithm development, reducing downtime by 3.8%.
• Applied GIS models to identify high-risk riders, enhancing safety by 3% and user experience by 5%.
• Delivered marketing and business analytics that contributed to a 6% rise in revenue.

PhD, Explainable Natural Language Processing

Utrecht University

• Department of Methodology & Statistics; member of the NLTP group and the HDS Lab during the PhD.
• Thesis: Let Me Explain! — Explainable NLP for Understanding Large Language Models.
• Supervisors: Dr. Robert A. Bagheri, Dr. Anastasia Giachanou, Prof. Dr. Daniel Oberski.
• Secured over €40,000 in research funding across multiple grants.

MSc, Industrial Engineering — Macro Systems

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

• GPA 18.96/20 (4.0/4.0); ranked 2nd among 50+ graduate students.
• Thesis: dynamic pricing with demand learning using reinforcement learning in a non-stationary environment.

BSc Mechanical Engineering

Isfahan University of Technology, Golpayegan College of Engineering