Behzad Golshan

Behzad Golshan

Working on AI, LLMs & the inevitable ๐Ÿค– uprising

A LITTLE ABOUT ME

Hello random person on the internet! My name is Behzad (ุจู‡ุฒุงุฏ).
I work on AI and LLMs. Currently, I’m at Google working on bringing AI capabilities to different Google products (e.g., SGE and Illuminate). Prior to this, I was part of the NLP Signals team at Twitter‘s Cortex team building Tweet representations. And before that, I was a researcher at Megagon.ai. I got my PhD in Computer Science from Boston University back in 2016.
Besides work, I like making & drinking coffee โ˜•.studying & playing ๐ŸŽต.being an AC Milan fan โšฝ.running ๐Ÿƒ (if my bad knee allows).sleeping ๐Ÿ’ค.

THE TODO LIST

This is a list of things (first compiled on July 2022) I wish to achieve. Just like OKRs, I’d say reaching 70% would be a good ๐Ÿ˜…. Obviously, the list doesn’t have everything cause some goals are really personal.

  • Donโ€™t die
    • I’ve done a good job so far.
  • Run ๐Ÿƒ a half-marathon
    • My longest run is 8.3 Miles

  • Visit 30 different countries ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธย 
    • I’m at 16 countries (excluding Iran & the US)

    • ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
  • Visit 20 National Parks ๐Ÿž๏ธ in the US
    • I’m at 6 national parks

    • Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Rocky Mountain, Haleakalฤ, Pinnacles, Grand Canyon
  • Train to do 20 pull-ups
    • I’m at 0 pull-ups!

  • Watch an AC Milan ๐Ÿ”ดโšซ match at San Siro
  • Aprender a hablar espaรฑolย 
    • If we know each other and you speak Spanish, help me! ๐Ÿ˜…
    • I’m at 104 out of 1193 Duolingo lessons

  • Write a song โ™ซ
  • Learn to sail โ›ต
  • Learn to play the piano ๐ŸŽน (relatively well)
  • Write a book ๐Ÿ“š
  • Participate in an Olympic-distance triathlon ๐ŸŠ ๐Ÿšด ๐Ÿƒ
  • Give a keynote talk
  • Have coffee โ˜• with a notable person I admire (author, musician, scientist, etc)
  • Pick up a camera ๐Ÿ“ท & make good-quality educational videos

LET’S SOCIALIZE

PUBLICATIONS

Xianjing Liu, Behzad Golshan, Kenny Leung, Aman Saini, Vivek Kulkarni, Ali Mollahosseini, Jeff Mo
Sainyam Galhotra, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan
Johannes Bjerva, Nikita Bhutani, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan, Isabelle Augenstein
Sampo: Unsupervised Knowledge Base Construction for Opinions and Implications — AKBC 2020
Nikita Bhutani, Aaron Traylor, Chen Chen, Xiaolan Wang, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan
A. Traylor, C. Chen, B. Golshan, X. Wang, Y. Li, Y. Suhara, J. Li, C. Demiralp, W. Tan
Emu: Enhancing Multilingual Sentence Embeddings with Semantic Specialization — AAAI 2020
Wataru Hirota, Yoshihiko Suhara, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan
B. Golshan, G. Mihaila, C. Chen, J. Engel, Al. Halevy, Y. Suhara, W. Tan, M. Matuschek
Danni Ma, Chen Chen, Behzad Golshan, Wang-Chiew Tan
Behzad Golshan, Evimaria Terzi, Panayiotis Tsaparas
A team-formation algorithm for faultline minimization — Expert Systems with Applications 2019
Sanaz Bahargam, Behzad Golshan, Theodoros Lappas, Evimaria Terzi
Xiaolan Wang, Jiyu Komiya, Yoshihiko Suhara, Aaron Feng, Behzad Golshan, Alon Halevy, Wang-Chiew Tan
Xiaolan Wang, Aaron Feng, Behzad Golshan, Alon Halevy, George Mihaila, Hidekazu Oiwa, Wang-Chiew Tan
A. Asai, S. Evensen, B. Golshan, A. Halevy, V. Li, A. Lopatenko, D. Stepanov, Y. Suhara, W. Tan, Y. Xu
Chen Chen, Behzad Golshan, Alon Y Halevy, Wang-Chiew Tan, AnHai Doan
Minimizing tension in teams —ย CIKM 2017
Behzad Golshan, Evimaria Terzi
Homogeneity in web search results: Diagnosis and mitigationย — Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2017
Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evangelos E Papalexakis
Data integration: After the teenage years — SIGMOD/PODS (Invited Paper)
Behzad Golshan, Alon Halevy, George Mihaila, Wang-Chiew Tan
Esther Galbrun, Behzad Golshan, Aristides Gionis, Evimaria Terzi
Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evangelos Papalexakis
Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evangelos Papalexakis
Overlap Between Google and Bing Web Search Results! Twitter to the Rescue? — COSN (Conference on Online Social Networks) 2015
Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evangelos Papalexakis
Whither social networks for web search? — KDD 2015 (Industry Track)
Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evangelos Papalexakis
A study of distinctiveness in web results of two search engines — WWW 2015 Companion (Web Science Track)
Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evangelos Papalexakis
Profit-maximizing cluster hires — KDD 2014
Behzad Golshan, Theodoros Lappas, Evimaria Terzi
Grouping students in educational settings — KDD 2014
Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evimaria Terzi
Unveiling Variables in Systems of Linear Equations — SDM 2014
Behzad Golshan, Evimaria Terzi
Rakesh Agrawal, Behzad Golshan, Evimaria Terzi
What do row and column marginals reveal about your dataset?ย — NeurIPS 2013
Behzad Golshan, John Byers, Evimaria Terzi
A framework for evaluating the smoothness of data-mining resultsย — PKDD 2012
Gaurav Misra, Behzad Golshan, Evimaria Terzi
Sofia Search: a tool for automating related-work search — SIGMOD 2012 (Demo Track)
Behzad Golshan, Theodoros Lappas, Evimaria Terzi

WORK EXPERIENCE

Google

Google Software Engineer (2023 – Now)

I’m working on incorporating AI capabilities into different Google products (e.g., SGE while browsing & Illuminate).

Twitter

Twitter ML Engineer (2022-2023)

I worked on developing and utilizing NLP signals to improve different products at Twitter.

Megagon Labs

Megagon Labs Research Scientist (2016-2021)

I have been working on different NLP & machine-learning problems. Creating knowledge-bases (KBs) automatically from reviews, boosting performance of NLP models through KBs, and building question-answering (QA) and dialogue systems are a few examples.

EDUCATION HISTORY

Boston University

Boston University PhD in Computer Science (2010-2016)

I did my PhD at Massive Data, Algorithms, and Systems (MiDAS) Group under supervision of Prof. Evimaria Terzi. Most of my PhD work has been focused on data-mining methods and combinatorial optimization algorithms for real-world graphs.

University of Tehran

University of Tehran BSc in Computer Engineering (2005-2010)

I love this place! This is where I started, made wonderful friends, and learned a lot about computers, algorithms, and myself.

INTERNSHIPS EXPERIENCES

Aalto University

Aalto University Research Intern (Summer 2015)

Microsoft Research

Microsoft Research Research Intern (Summer 2014)

oDesk (now Upwork)

oDesk (now Upwork) Research Intern (Summer 2013)

Sapienza University

Sapienza University Research Intern (Summer 2012)

Adverplex (now Cogo Labs)

Adverplex (now Cogo Labs) Research Intern (Summer 2011)

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