Alborz Geramifard
[2025-Present] Distinguished Scientist, LinkedIn - Core AI
[2018-2024] Research Manager / Director, Meta - Reality Labs
[2013-2018] Research Scientist/Manager, Amazon - Alexa
[2012-2013] Postdoc, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT
[2008-2011] PhD, Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT
[2004-2007] MSc, Computer Science, University of Alberta
[1998-2003] BSc, Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Project CAIRaoke: Building the assistants of the future with breakthroughs in conversational AI (Meta Public Release 2022)
An Introduction to Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning (Amazon Public Release 2018)
Community Service
[Editor]
Machine Learning Journal - Special Issue on Reinforcement Learning for Real Life, 2020
AI Magazine - Special Issue on Conversational AI, 2020
[Area Chair]
Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), 2026
International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AMAAS), 2025
Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC), 2025
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2020-2022
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2020-2024
North American Chapter of Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2020-2024
[Organizer]
AAAI Bridge - Advancing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration, 2026
AAAI Workshop - Synergy of Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models, 2024
NIPS Workshop - Human in the Loop Dialogue Systems 2020
ACL Workshop - Safety for Conversational AI Workshop, 2020
West coast NLP Summit (WeCNLP), 2019-2020
ICML Workshop - Reinforcement Learning for Real Life, 2019-2022
NeurIPS Workshop - Conversational AI 2017-2019
NeurIPS Workshop - Advances in Machine Learning for Sensorimotor Control, 2013
NeurIPS Workshop - Bayesian Nonparametric Models For Reliable Planning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty, 2013
CDC Workshop - Intelligent Planning and Control, 2012