About me

I am a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Washington working with Linda Shapiro and Ranjay Krishna. My interests revolve around computer vision, multimodal learning and representation learning.

Previously, I earned my Bachelor's degree from the Sharif University of Technology in Iran. Summer 2021, I received an International Undergraduate Excellence Award from the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures & Augmented Reality (CAMPAR) at Technical University of Munich.

Publications

  • Perception Tokens Enhance Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models

    ArXiv 2024

    Authors: Mahtab Bigverdi, Zelun Luo, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Ethan Shen, Dongping Chen, Linda Shapiro, Ranjay Krishna

    Paper

  • Gene-Level Representation Learning via Interventional Style Transfer in Optical Pooled Screening

    CVPR 2024 Workshop on Computer Vision for Microscopy Image Analaysis

    Authors: Mahtab Bigverdi*, Burkhard Höckendorf*, Heming Yao, Phil Hanslovsky, Romain Lopez, David Richmond

    Paper

  • Data Alignment for Zero-Shot Concept Generation in Dermatology AI

    ICLR 2024 Workshop on Navigating and Addressing Data Problems for Foundation Models

    Authors: Soham Gadgil*, Mahtab Bigverdi*

    Paper

  • MIMIC: Masked Image Modeling with Image Correspondences

    CVPR 2024 Workshop for Learning 3D with Multi-View Supervision

    Authors: Mahtab Bigverdi*, Kalyani Marathe*, Nishat Khan, Tuhin Kundu, Aniruddha Kembhavi, Linda G. Shapiro, Ranjay Krishna

    Paper | Code

  • Image-based cell profiling enhancement via data cleaning methods

    PLOS ONE journal

    Authors: Mahtab Bigverdi*, Arghavan Rezvani* , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

    Paper | Code

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Education

  1. PhD, University of Washington

    2022 — present

    Supervisors: Prof. Linda Shapiro and Ranjay Krishna

  2. Bachelor, Sharif University of Technology

    2017 — 2022

    Supervisor: Mohammad Hossein Rohban
    Thesis title: Cell Segmentation in microscopic images using transformers

  3. Farzanegan2 high school

    2013 - 2017

    Diploma In Mathematics and Physics in the gifted students high school in Iran

Experience

  1. Reseach intern

    Genentech, South San Fransisco, CA 2023

    Working on the genetic perturbation representation learning from single-cell images

  2. Reseach assistant

    University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2022 — Present

    Working on a joint project with Amazon on 3D scene understanding

  3. Reseach intern

    Technical University of Munich, Germany 2021 - 2022

    Developed a model based on Graph Convolutional Network architecture for detecting seizure in EEG signals

  4. Reseach assistant

    Sharif University of Technology, Iran 2019 — 2021

    Enhanced single-cell profiles via data cleaning

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