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“š Publications


* denotes equal contribution. See also my Google Scholar profile.

GROKE paper figure
GROKE: Vision-Free Navigation Instruction Evaluation via Graph Reasoning on OSM
Farzad Shami, Subhrasankha Dey, Nico Van de Weghe, and Henrikki Tenkanen
arXiv preprint, 2026
GeneGPT paper figure
From Single to Multi-Agent Reasoning: Advancing GeneGPT for Genomics QA
Kimia Abedini, Farzad Shami, and Gianmaria Silvello
ECIR 2026 – European Conference on Information Retrieval
Benchmarking KG paper figure
Benchmarking Large Language Models for Knowledge Graph Validation
Farzad Shami*, Stefano Marchesin, and Gianmaria Silvello
EDBT 2026 – International Conference on Extending Database Technology
Fact Verification paper figure
Fact Verification in Knowledge Graphs Using LLMs
Farzad Shami*, Stefano Marchesin, and Gianmaria Silvello
SIGIR 2025 – ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Doctron paper figure
Doctron: A Web-based Collaborative Annotation Tool for Ground Truth Creation in IR
Ornella Irrera, Stefano Marchesin, Farzad Shami, and Gianmaria Silvello
SIGIR 2025 – ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
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SEUPD@CLEF: Team CLOSE on temporal persistence of IR systems' performance
Farzad Shami, Gianluca Antolini, Nicola Boscolo, Mirco Cazzaro, Marco Martinelli, Reza Safavi, Nicola Ferro
CLEF 2023 – Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum