I am a fifth-year PhD student in the College of Information and Computer Sciences working with James Allan in the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

My research interest broadly lies in the areas of information retrieval, natural language processing and deep learning. I currently focus on knowledge intensive tasks such as fact extraction and verification and LLM factuality evaluation. I am also working towards detecting and mitigating toxicity in online forums and LLMs

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science (Sep 2019 - Present)
    University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • M.Sc. in Computer Engineering (Jan 2016 - Aug 2018)
    Bilkent University
  • B.Sc. in Information Technology Engineering (Sep 2011 - Jul 2015)
    University of Tabriz

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Academic Services

  • Reviewer for CIKM 2022.
  • Reviewer for WSDM 2021.
Nazanin Jafari


nazaninjafar at cs.umass.edu

Computer Science Department
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Computer Science Department
Amherst, MA 01003, US

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