🎓 Farzad Shami's Academic Portfolio 🎓

📄 Curriculum Vitae

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Education

• PhD in Computer Engineering – Aalto University (GIST Lab), Helsinki, Finland
  Jul. 2025 – Present
  Advisors: Prof. H. Tenkanen & N. Van de Weghe
  Research focus: Multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) for Geospatial Reasoning.
  Project: Geo-R2LLM – funded under CHIST-ERA transnational call 2023.
• M.S. in Computer Engineering (GPA: 110/110) – University of Padova (UniPd), Padova, Italy
  Sep. 2022 – Mar. 2025
  Advisors: Prof. G. Silvello & S. Marchesin
  Grant: Awarded a research grant (€5,000) for the project "LLM-based Fact Verification Pipeline for Knowledge Graphs".
  Thesis: Knowledge Graph Fact Verification Through RAG Using a Multi-Model Ensemble Approach.
  Relevant Coursework: Graph Databases (30L/30), Search Engines (30L/30), Geographic Information Systems (30/30), Distributed Systems (30/30), Machine Learning (27/30).

Honors & Awards

• Research Grant (€5,000) for LLM-based Fact Verification Pipeline for Knowledge Graphs, University of Padova

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