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‘ค 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.

๐Ÿ“ฐ News & Updates


Date News
2026 ๐Ÿ“„ New preprint: GROKE: Vision-Free Navigation Instruction Evaluation via Graph Reasoning on OSM on arXiv!
2026 ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at ECIR 2026: From Single to Multi-Agent Reasoning: Advancing GeneGPT for Genomics QA
2026 ๐ŸŽ‰ Paper accepted at EDBT 2026: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Validation
Jul 2025 ๐ŸŽ“ Started PhD at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland!
2025 ๐ŸŽ‰ Two papers accepted at SIGIR 2025!

Last updated: February 9, 2026