Reza (Amirreza) Shirani
PhD - Computer Science
University of Houston
Interested in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Applied Machine Learning, Deep Learning
My research interests include: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Applied Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction (Social Media)
Updates:
SemEval-2020 Emphasis Selection shared task attracted 197 participants in the early phase and a total of 31 teams made submissions to this task. Check out our SemEval task description paper "SemEval-2020 Task 10: Emphasis Selection for Written Text in Visual Media". (Presentation)
Check out my ACL 2020 talk about Font Selection on SlideLive and Adobe's website.
"Let Me Choose: From Verbal Context to Font Selection" has been accepted at ACL 2020. (Many Thanks to amazing co-authors from Adobe Research and RiTUAL Lab)
Pleased to announce that our paper "Learning Emphasis Selection for Written Text in Visual Media from Crowd-Sourced Label Distributions" has been accepted to ACL 2019. Many Thanks to amazing co-authors from Adobe Research and RiTUAL Lab (University of Houston).
‘Highly Commended Paper Award’ article has been featured in ‘UH Inside Research’, ‘UH Today’, 'UH news & events', 'NSM news & events', 'UH NSM student accomplishments' and 'Cougar Milestones - January 22, 2019'.
Adobe Research Fellowship for academic year 2018-2019
Highly Commended Full Paper Award ESEM 2018
PyTorch Scholarship Challenge from Facebook
Experience:
AI/ML - Machine Learning Scientist - NLP, Siri Understanding, Apple
Research Assistant - University of Houston
Research Intern - Adobe Research
R&D Intern - Melax Technologies Inc
Data Scientist Intern - Microsoft