I am pursuing my Ph.D. at the University of Illinois--Chicago under the guidance of Dr. Cornelia Caragea. I am conducting research in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval with focus on stance detection, and claim verification. I am also interested in Financial NLP and generally solving problems in Finance and Economics that overlap with Data Science.I spent Sep 2022-Dec 2023 Improving semi-supervised, and domain adaptation algorithms for classification task for predicting water quality in data scares locations. This project was funded by Office of Naval Research and my mentors were Dr. Doina Caragea and Dr. Sam Dorevitch. I am glad that my work took a small step toward enhancing public health and was in line with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal of Clean Water and Sanitation.Beofre 2022 I was a Computer Science student at University of Tehran, and worked as a data scientist at the University of Tehran exploring recommendation algorithms and online and offline evaluations of them. In 2016, I won Iran's National Bronze Medal in Chemistry Olympiad.