I'm Morteza (he/him), a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Luxembourg. I specialize in Computational Neuroscience and Computer Engineering, and enjoy working on projects that have an impact on aligning AI to human cognition (or the other way around).
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PhD in Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig, Germany) and University of Luxembourg (Belval, Luxembourg), 2023
- Thesis: Towards a Computational Model of General Cognitive Control Using Artificial Intelligence, Experimental Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience. pdf · a short video of my speech at some thesis award ceremony (starts at 53:00)
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MSc in Cognitive Psychology, Institute for Cognitive Science Studies (Tehran, Iran), 2017
- Thesis: Neural Correlates of Agency Attribution in Posthypnotic Suggestion, Explicit Instruction, and Free Choice: An EEG/ERP Study.
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BSc in Computer Engineering, Tehran Polytechnic, 2008
- Thesis: Design and Implementation of an Anytime Operating System for Embedded Applications.
- Human-like cognitive control
- Resting-state fMRI/EEG
- Large-scale computational cognitive models
- Behavioral cloning and alignment
- Natural language processing, ontologies, and knowledge engineering