Daniel Khashabi

3333 Siebel Center Cell: +1 (217) 979-3565201 N. Goodwin E-mail: khashab2@illinois.edu

Urbana, IL, USA 61801 http://illinois.edu/~khashab2

Last Update: December 2015

EDUCATION � Ph.D. in Computer Science 2012-now. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Advisor: Dan Roth

� B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering 2008-2012. Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). Advisor: Hamid Sheikhzadeh

� Minor: Computer Science 2010-2012. Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)

� Diploma in Mathematics and Physics 2003-08. Shahid Beheshti High School, Maragheh, Iran. Affiliated with National Organization For Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET)

OTHEREXPERIENCES

� Research Intern, AI2, Seattle, WA Summer, 2015-2016. Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). Host: Ashish Sabharwal

� Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA Summer, 2014. Machine Learning and Intelligence Group. Host: Chris J.C. Burges

� Research Intern, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK Summer, 2013. Machine Learning and Perception Group. Host: Jeremy Jancsary

� Research Intern, Media Processing Lab, Tehran Polytechnic Summer, 2011. Host: Hamid Sheikhzadeh

RESEARCHINTERESTS

Algorithmic aspects of information processing, for learning, inference and decision making.More specifically the intersection of Machine Learning, Statistics, Optimization and NaturalLanguage Processing.

AWARDS &HONORS

� Best Paper Award, 13th Iranian Students Conference on Electrical Eng. Sep, 2010� Ranked 8th in Robocup 2009, 2D soccer simulation league, Graz, Austria. Jul, 2009� Ranked 172th in national university entrance exam, among 330,000 nationwide. Jun, 2008� Semi-finalist in Physics National Olympiad competitions. Dec, 2007� Best performance in state-wide high-school competitions. 2005

PUBLICATIONS � “Combining Retrieval, Statistics, and Inference to Answer Elementary ScienceQuestions”, Peter Clark, Oren Etzioni, Daniel Khashabi, Tushar Khot, Ashish Sabharwal,Oyvind Tafjord, Peter Turney. The Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). 2016.

� “Online Learning with Adversarial Delays”, K. Quanrad and D. Khashabi. Advances inNeural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). 2015.

� “Illinois-Profiler: Knowledge Schemas at Scale”, Z. Fei, D. Khashabi, H. Peng, H. Wuand D. Roth. Cognitum: IJCAI Workshop on Cognitive Knowledge Acquisition and Applica-tions. 2015.

� “Solving Hard Co-reference Problems”, H. Peng?, D. Khashabi?, D. Roth. NAACL:North American Chapter of the ACL. 2015.

� “Clustering With Side Information: From a Probabilistic Model to a DeterministicAlgorithm”, D. Khashabi?, J. Wieting?, J. Y. Liu?, F. Liang?. arXiv preprint. 2015.

� “Joint Demosaicing and Denoising via Learned Nonparametric Random Fields”, D.Khashabi, S. Nowozin, J. Jancsary, A.W. Fitzgibbon. IEEE Transaction on Image Processing,vol.23, no.12, pp.4968,4981, Dec. 2014.

� “Some Notes on Modeling the Semantic Flow of Narratives”, D. Khashabi and C. JCBurges, A. Pastusiak E. Renshaw, 2014(Tech Report).

� “On Recursive Neural Networks for Relation Extraction and Entity Recognition”,Daniel Khashabi, 2013(Tech Report).

� B.Sc. Thesis: “Analysis and Implementation of Bayesian Methods for ModellingCorrelated Multioutput Information (Multitask Learning)”, D.Khashabi, 2012.

� “Adaptive Tiled Neural Networks”, M.Nokhbeh-Zaeem, D.Khashabi, H.A.Talebi, Sh.Navabi,F.Jabbarvaziri, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC),Alaska, October 2011.

� “C++ Programming and Numerical Methods”, Daniel Khashabi, Mohammad Motamediand Shiva Navabi, Bahram Taheri, 2011.

� Design and Optimizing Digital Combinational Logic Circuits Using Genetic Algo-rithm”(Persian), S.M.Moosavi and D.Khashabi, 13th Iranian Student Conference on Electricaland Computer Engieering(ISCEE2010), September 2010, Tehran: Best Paper Award!

� “Haar wavelet for function approximation and solving ordinary differential equa-tions” (Persian), S.M.Moosavi and D.Khashabi, 13th Iranian Student Conference on Electricaland Computer Engieering (ISCEE2010), September 2010, Tehran.

� “Nemesis Soccer 2D Simulation Team Description Paper”, RoboCup 2009, Graz, Aus-tria.

PATENTS � “Image demosaicing”, Patent Number: US 20150215590 A1, 2015.

TEACHINGEXPERIENCE

� Teaching Assistant: “CS446: Machine Learning” Fall, 2015◦ Instructor: Dan Roth

� Teaching Assistant: “CS473: Fundamental Algorithms” Fall, 2013◦ Instructor: Jeff Erickson

� Teaching Assistant: “CS473: Fundamental Algorithms” Spring, 2013◦ Instructor: Sariel Har-Peled, and Alexandra Kolla

� Teaching Assistant: “Digital Signal Processing” Spring, 2012◦ Instructor: Hamid Sheikhzadeh Nadjar

� Teaching Assistant: “Probability and Statistics (I)” Spring, 2012◦ Instructor: Gholamreza Moradi

� Teaching Assistant: “C++ I : Fundamental C++ Programming” Fall, 2011◦ Instructor: Bahram Taheri

� Teaching Assistant: “C++ II and Numerical Programming” Spring, 2011◦ Instructor: Bahram Taheri

� Teaching Assistant: “Introduction to Computers and Programming(C++)” Fall, 2010◦ Instructor: Hassan Taheri

PROGRAMMING� Scala, Java, C/C++, Python, F#, Shell Scripting, MATLAB (Octave), R.

SERVICE � AIIS seminar organizer Spring, 2014-Now. Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems’s seminar at UIUC.

� AI reading group organizer Fall, 2013-Spring, 2015. Reading important trends in Machine Learning, NLP, Vision, etc.

� Technical Committee Member(TC) Oct 7-9, 2009. AUTCUP-2009, 2D Soccer Simulation League.

� Subreviewer for: ECAI2014, ACL2015, AAAI2015

� Reviewer for: CoNLL2016

LANGUAGES � Azerbaijani: Native

� Persian: Native

� English: Fluent