Alireza Heshmati PhD Student

Research Interests

• Reinforcement Learning
• Federated Learning
• AI robustness and explainability

Education

Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Sciences (Sep. 2025 - Ongoing)

• Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering – Comunication Systems (Sep. 2020 - Sep. 2022)

• Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• Dissertation title: "Adversarial Attack to Deep Learning Networks via Imperceptible Sparse Perturbation"

B. Sc. in Electrical Engineering – Electronics (Sep. 2016 - July 2020)

• Department of Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• Project title: "Thief's Mask Detection Using Neural Networks"

Professional Experience

AI Developer (May 2025 - Aug. 2025)

• I collaborated on projects related to Persian Text-to-Speech and Voice Assistants at Part AI Research Center, Mashhad, Iran.

Research Assistant (Dec. 2022 - Mar. 2025)

• At Electronics Research Institute, Sharif University of Technology, I have worked on developing functional Persian-language speech processing modules. In addition, I contributed to preparing a Persian audio-transcript dataset and Adversarial attacks leveraging the sparsity concept (grouping and overlapping) to in image systems.

Honors and Awards

• 2024: Coordinator of a team working on speech processing modules and NLP problems at Electronics Research Institute of Sharif University of Technology for a period of time.

• 2023: Member of the Iran's National Foundation of Elites.
• 2020: Distinguished Student of the Electrical Engineering department of Shiraz University of Technology among all entries of 2016 as Summa Cum Laude with GPA 19.09/20.