Hi, I’m Zahra! I’m a first year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, advised by Prof. Soheil Feizi. I graduated with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Applied Mathematics from Sharif University of Technology. I have been fortunate to be a research intern at VILAB, EPFL supervised by Prof. Amir Zamir, and a research assistant at CUHK supervised by Prof. Farzan Farnia. During my undergraduate studies, I’ve also had the great opportunity to be mentored by Prof. Mohammad Hossein Yassaee and Prof. Sajjad Amini.
In a nutshell, my broad research interests lie in the span of machine learning and deep learning, generative models, interpretability and trustworthy AI.
In my non-academic life (a.k.a. the Life life), I enjoy photography, playing the Setar, books, good poetry and music. I also love traveling, exploring different places, cultures, and stories.
Research Interests
Including, but not limited to:
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning
- Generative Models
- Multimodal Learning
- Meta Learning
- Reasoning
- Cognitively-Inspired AI
- Psychoanalytic Linguistics for ML
Publications
- Rapid Network Adaptation: Learning to Adapt Neural Networks Using Test-Time Feedback
Teresa Yeo, Oğuzhan Fatih Kar, Zahra Sodagar, Amir Zamir; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.