I'm a Ph.D. student and Graduate Research Assistant in the DICE Lab at the University of Illinois Chicago, advised by Prof. Mesrob I. Ohannessian. My work connects applied game theory and data markets with practical AI systems.
- Applied game theory & data markets: Studying strategic interactions in generative AI markets, including data-provider participation, Nash and correlated equilibria, and equilibrium selection.
- Agentic workflow automation: Building coordinated AI pipelines with code-generation and intent-clarification agents for end-to-end medical data workflows.
- Clinical AI: Working with clinical vision-language models, specialty-specific fine-tuning, and ML deployment with Vertex AI on Google Cloud.
- Language-model learning & robustness: Analyzing example-level training dynamics across multi-task, multilingual, and multi-source settings.
I earned my B.S. in Electrical Engineering (Control Engineering) at the University of Tehran. Outside research, I share technical tutorials and ideas on YouTube.
📍 Chicago, IL · ✉️ svass@uic.edu · 🌐 Website & research
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Language-model learning dynamics across multi-task, multilingual, and multi-source settings