Biography

I am a Ph.D. student of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. I do my research under the supervision of Prof. Mohammad Hajiesmaili and Ramesh K. Sitaraman (co-adivsors). I received my master’s degree from UMass with grade 4.0/4.0. Before joining UMass, I received my B.Sc. degree at the department of Computer Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology. Prof. Ali Sharifi-Zarchi was my advisor.

Checkout my CV here

Research Area

• Online learning - Online decision making
• Online optimization
• Machine learning applications in multimedia

Employment

• Machine Learning Data Scientist Intern, SiriusXM and Pandora, Oakland, USA, Summer 2024
  • Developed a framework to explain the similarity of a query and a document retrieved by a search ranking model.
• Software Engineer Intern, Google LLC., Mountain View, USA, Spring 2022
  • Developed a highly accurate model to address the interest matching points problem by employing image processing and machine learning techniques, including depth detection, and image perspective detection/modification. Successfully enhanced the performance of SOTA models by up to 50% with the final implementation.
• Machine Learning and Data Science Researcher , Research intern, Adobe, San Jose, USA, Summer 2021
  • Focused on enhancing user experience by optimizing PDF file interactions in liquid-mode, ensuring seamless performance in both offline and online streaming modes.

Publications

• Robust Learning-Augmented Dictionaries [ICML 2024] [PDF]

  Ali Zeynali, Shahin Kamali, Mohammad Hajiesmaili

• BOLA360: Near-optimal View and Bitrate Adaptation for 360-degree Video Streaming [ACM MMSys 2024] [PDF]

  Ali Zeynali, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Ramesh Sitaraman

• A Holistic Approach for Equity-aware Carbon Reduction of Ridesharing Platforms [ACM e-Energy 2024] [PDF]

  Mahsa Sahebdel, Ali Zeynali, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy, Mohammad Hajiesmaili

• Data-driven Algorithms for Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Ride-sharing Ecosystems [ACM e-Energy 2023] [PDF]

  Mahsa Sahebdel, Ali Zeynali, Noman Bashir, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Jimi Oke

• SemEval-2022 Task 8: Multilingual news article similarity [SemEval 2022] [PDF]

  Xi Chen, Ali Zeynali, Chico Camargo, Fabian Flock, Devin Gaffney, Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Scott Hale, David Jurgens, Mattia Samory

• Competitive Algorithms for Online MultidimensionalKnapsack Problems [ACM SIGMETRICS 2022] [PDF]

  Lin Yang, Ali Zeynali, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Ramesh Sitaraman, Don Towsley

• Data-driven Competitive Algorithms for Online Knapsack and Set Cover [AAAI 2021] [PDF]

  Ali Zeynali, Bo Sun, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman

• Competitive Algorithms for the Online Multiple KnapsackProblem with Application to Electric Vehicle Charging [ACM SIGMETRICS 2021] [PDF]

  Bo Sun, Ali Zeynali, Tongxin Li, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, Danny H.K. Tsang

Selected Projects

• VSE360: Online 360-degree video streaming simulation evironment [Github]

  Fully simulated python environment to evaluate 360-degree ABR algorithms

• AI-Generated music using Deep Learning + LSTM [Github]

  Generating music using deep learning techniques, and LSTM networks

• AI-Generated short stories using bidirectional LSTM [Github]

  Generating short/tiny stories with deep LSTM

• ZeySed: Deep neural networks for leave classification [Github]

  Classifying image of leaves using deep neural networks

Honors and Awards:

• Thesis Proposal Writing Fellowship Award; Fall 2023 - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Nominated for the Microsoft Research Fellowship by the CICS Department; Summer 2021 - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Donald F. Towsley Graduate Scholarship; Summer 2021 - University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Ranked in Top-Ten BSc. students of computer engineering, class of 2019 (among 177 students)

• Rank 24 of 10th IEEEXTREME, 24-hours programming contest among 1823 teams; Fall 2016

• Golden Medalist of 8th International Olympiad IOAA (among more than 200 international students); Summer 2014 - Romania

• Golden Medalist of 9th National Science Olympiad NOAA (among more than 5,000 students); Summer 2013

Contact me:

“a” + [my last name ] at umass dot edu