🎓 Farzad Shami's Academic Portfolio 🎓

👤 About Me

Welcome to my academic homepage! I am a 1st year PhD student in Computer Engineering at Aalto University (GIST Lab), Helsinki, Finland, under the supervision of Prof. H. Tenkanen and N. Van de Weghe.

Research Focus: Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) for Geospatial Reasoning.

Current Project: Geo-R2LLM – Knowledgeable and Interpretable multimodal Geographic LLMs Grounded with Reasoning and Retrieval, funded under the CHIST-ERA transnational call 2023.

Research Interests: Large Language Models, Knowledge Graphs, Fact Verification, Geospatial Reasoning, Information Retrieval, Multi-Agent Systems.

I previously completed my M.S. in Computer Engineering at the University of Padova (GPA: 110/110), where I worked on LLM-based Fact Verification for Knowledge Graphs under the supervision of Prof. G. Silvello and S. Marchesin.

📰 News & Updates

Last updated: February 9, 2026