Alborz Geramifard

SENIOR RESEARCH MANAGER | MENLO PARK, UNITED STATES

Alborz Geramifard is a senior research manager at Meta AI supporting the Conversational AI. Prior to joining Meta, he led the conversational AI team at Amazon Alexa and created more than a dozen of NLU models shipped into production. Prior to Amazon, he was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems. He received his PhD from MIT in 2011 and MSc from University of Alberta in 2008, both with the focus on reinforcement learning. Alborz was the recipient of the NSERC postgraduate scholarships 2010-2012 program. He has contributed to the community in various roles including the guest editor for Machine Learning Journal and AI Magazine and Area Chair for EMNLP and ACL.

Alborz's Publications

July 09, 2021

Annotation Inconsistency and Entity Bias in MultiWOZ

Ahmad Beirami, Alborz Geramifard, Ankita De, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Kun Qian, Zhou Yu, Zhouhan Lin

July 09, 2021

June 02, 2021

CONVERSATIONAL AI

NLP

DVD: A Diagnostic Dataset for Multi-step Reasoning in Video Grounded Dialogue

Satwik Kottur, Ahmad Beirami, Alborz Geramifard, Chinnadhurai Sankar, Hung Le, Shane Moon

June 02, 2021

November 11, 2020

Resource Constrained Dialog Policy Learning via Differentiable Inductive Logic

Zhenpeng Zhou, Ahmad Beirami, Alborz Geramifard, Pararth Shah, Paul Crook, Rajen Subba

November 11, 2020