I am Elham Barezi, an AI research scientist currently working under Dr. Carol Song at the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing (RCAC) at Purdue University. I hold a PhD in AI and machine learning, and before joining RCAC, I served as a research staff member at Michigan State University and as a project manager at the Center for AI Research at HKUST. My expertise lies in machine learning theory, multimodal learning, and natural language processing, with experience in projects such as knowledge base visual question answering, multimodal therapy, and COVID-19 QA system.

In my current role, I am contributing to AI computing efforts by collaborating on research proposals, supporting researchers with my AI knowledge, and training others to enhance access to AI resources.

I have a PhD in AI, with several years of experience in Machine Learning Optimization, Natural Language processing, computer vision, and multimodal learning. I would be happy to brainstorm and help you in these fields.

There are no limits to your ideas and work in HPC. Follow all your interests in hardware, software, and applications.

Being open to all collaborations.

Find a good balance of theoretical knowledge and practical experience.

I am very curious and passionate about learning.

I was a project manager in an AI lab for 1.5 years right after finishing my PhD.

I cannot say the worst job, since I learned a lot then also, but working in a non-collaborative team without any freedom in research and exploration was a hard experience I had.

My job as a project manager was genuinely nice experience as I attended meetings with very experienced teams and professors, and I collaborated on many projects in various domains including AI for robotics, health, social goods, and ...

If you feel something is hurting or not working fine, do something to find and fix the issue. Do not be passive.

During all past experiences, I found which type of job and team I like more, and I used that experience to find my direction.

I would like to learn more about the complete pipeline of serving HPC users, as well as starting more collaborations in many domains and applications using AI.

People are quite generous and open to helping and collaborating.

My collaborations and projects in a wide spectrum of AI, covering theory, language, speech, and vision is something I am immensely proud of.

I am the first AI research scientist in RCAC, and still, people are unaware of the services and potential collaborations we can provide for them.

I joined RCAC in Mid of August 2024. Soon to be 3 months

Check my google scholar page and my LinkedIn page

I am a profoundly serious person 😁 😀

Collaborating with young students with fresh curious minds is a valuable opportunity.

I think it's a wonderful opportunity for students to work on a practical real project, with experienced people ready to help and guide them. They can see their future and make better decisions after finishing this project.

Getting New perspectives to the projects and solutions.

Using LLMs to analyze texts and generate some helpful summarizations to help HPC users with frequent questions and issues.

It helps you with any project, any collaboration and the full pipeline if using servers to solve problems. So, it's all you can get excited to learn, or work with, or use for your end-to-end problems.

RCAC/Purdue stands as a prominent HPC center within the national institutions of the US. Anvil holds the notable rank of 143rd on list of world’s most powerful supercomputers. Moreover, RCAC boasts teams of incredibly talented professionals spanning a diverse range of IT and scientific expertise.

It will be increasingly important since the era of running models on your local machine is over for sure. I hope to broaden my knowledge not only in various applications of AI, but also in end-to-end management of HPC for various applications.

Students have nice ideas but not a detailed picture of the problem or pros and cons of their solutions. They need guidance instead of being left in limbo with a vague problem.