Hannaneh Hajishirzi

You can find a more detailed CV in pdf format here.

 

Education

 

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MSc - Ph.D. in Computer Science (2003-present),

 

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

B.S. in Computer Engineering, Software (1998-2002),

Ranked 4th.         

 

Research Interests

 

Knowledge representation, Probabilistic Reasoning, Natural Language Processing,
Probabilistic Logical Models, Machine learning, commonsense reasoning.

 

Publications

 

   Hannaneh Hajishirzi and Eyal Amir, Sampling First Order Logical Particles, Uncertainty
   in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 08), 2008.

 

   Hannaneh Hajishirzi and Eyal Amir, Stochastic Filtering in a Probabilistic Action Model,

   22nd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 07), 2007.

         

Research Experience

   

    Intern, IBM TJ Watson Research, Mentor: Erik T. Mueller, Manager:
       Doug Riecken, May 2007-Dec 2007, May2008-Aug 2007.

    Project: Text Understanding through Probabilistic Reasoning about Actions

 

    Graduate Research Assistant, UIUC, Adviser: Eyal Amir, 2005-Present

    Projects: Logical Particle Filtering,

                    Efficient tractable reasoning algorithms in DBNs,
                    Monitoring Change in Webpages.

                                         

    Graduate Research Assistant, UIUC, Adviser: Dan Roth, Spring 2008-Present
     Project: Bootstrap Learning (learning by telling)

 

    Graduate Research Assistant, UIUC, Adviser: Gul Agha, Summer 2004,

     Project: TASK 

 

    Trainee in Sharif Robocup Soccer, small size league, Summer 2001.

              

Presentations

  

    IBM TJ Watson Research, Text Understanding through Probabilistic Reasoning about Actions,
     Aug 2008, [slides].

 

     Yahoo! Research, New York, Logical Particle Filtering and Text Understanding,
     May 2008, [slides].

 

Teaching Experience

 

   Teacher Assistant, UIUC, Programming Languages, Prof. Agha, Spring 2005.

   Teacher Assistant, UIUC, Numerical Methods, Prof. Kerkhoven, Fall 2004.

   Teacher Assistant, UIUC, Software Engineering I, II, Prof. Johnson, Fall 2003, Spring 2004.

 

Honors  

  - Ranked 3rd nation-wide in computer science MSc entrance exam, Iran, 2002.

  - Ranked 7th nation-wide MSc AI entrance exam, Iran, 2002.

  - Awarded Best all-women team and 2nd place in ACM contest, Asia Regional, Nov. 2001.

  - Ranked 2nd in ACM internal competition, Sharif University, 2001.

  - Ranked 58th among more than 1,250,000 participants in the national university entrance exam, 1998.