๐ŸŽ“ Farzad Shami's Academic Portfolio ๐ŸŽ“

Welcome to my academic homepage! ยท PhD Student at Aalto University ยท Research on Multimodal LLMs for Geospatial Reasoning ยท Updated: February 2026

๐Ÿ’ผ Professional Experience


University of Padova — Researcher

Padova, Italy · Jul. 2024 – Jul. 2025

  • Implemented and optimized a locally deployed ensemble of 4 LLMs (7B-9B parameters) for fact verification, processing 13,530 facts across three datasets with an average latency of 7 min per query.
  • Developed a large-scale web data collection system for fact verification, crawling 54k Google search pages resulting in 2M crawled results, with 1.3M validated data meeting quality criteria for KG verification.
  • Redesigned the MetaTron biomedical web platform dashboard by conducting statistical analysis of annotation patterns and user interactions, enabling data-driven insights for research collaboration effectiveness.

[ui!] - Urban Software Institute — Software Developer | R&D

Munich, Germany · May 2023 – Jun. 2024

  • Explored and experimented with RAG models to create chatbots that seamlessly interacted with databases.
  • Designed migration tools using Python and GraphQL to streamline the integration of legacy systems with modern APIs, resulting in a 30% reduction in development time.

Yektanet — Software Engineer

Mar 2021 – Apr 2022

  • Cooperation in developing a system to process more than 3k req/s to calculate market share.
  • Research and development of algorithms centered around the sales of most products based on the analysis and collection of customer data.