Mahvash Siavashpour | University of Alberta

About Me

I am a M.Sc. student at the University of Alberta. I am interested in LLM reasoning, Conditional Computation, Anytime Neural Networks and Precision Health.

Education

University of Alberta, M.Sc., Computing Science, 2023-Now
Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic), B.Sc., Computer Engineering, 2018-2023

Experiences

2022-2023

Amirkabir University of Technology, Undergraduate Research Assistant

Under supervision of Dr. Hossein Zeinali

Implemented a BERT-based automatic punctuation and paragraph restoration model
2021-2023

Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Undergraduate Research Intern

Under supervision of Dr. Jamal Amani Rad

Modeled human lexical decision-making using machine learning and evidence accumulation models using Beysian inference
2020-2021

Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Undergraduate Research Intern

Under supervision of Dr. Dara Rahmati

Employed a combination of CNN and Sequential Sampling models for modeling a human decision-making process

Publications

A Multimodal Deep Learning Ensemble Framework for Building a Spine Surgery Triage System, 20th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
Semi-Automated Construction of Sense-Annotated Datasets for Practically Any Language, 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025)
Developing a triage model for surgical referral from primary care based on spinal radiology reports using natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs), The 19th International Back and Neck Pain Research Forum 2025
UAlberta at SemEval-2024 Task 1: A Potpourri of Methods for Quantifying Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness and Similarity, In Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024)
Modeling Human Lexical Decision-Making with Artificial Neural Networks and Evidence Accumulation Models, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society 2023