Shervin Ardeshir, PhD
Computer Scientist
Senior Research Scientist at Netflix, Los Gatos, CA - 2018 - present
Instructor at Stanford Continue Studies: Harnessing the Power of AI-Agents.
Ph.D. in Computer Science - Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV), University of Central Florida - 2018
M.Sc. in Computer Science - Center for Research in Computer Vision (CRCV), University of Central Florida - 2016
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering - Sharif University of Technology - 2013
Verifying Prompt-induced Search-space Shifts in LLM-Generated Mathematical Functions. ICML 2025 AI for Mathematics
Automated Machine Learning Research via Agentic Exploration with Human Oversight. ICLR 2025 Agentic AI for Scientific Discovery
Area Chair, ICLR 2025 Workshop on XAI4Science
Preprint : Towards Automated Machine Learning Research Sept-2024.
Articles on our uncertainty quantification work published in MIT News, MIT MECHE
Quantifying Representation Reliability in Self-supervised Learning Models - UAI 2024 (link)
LLM2Loss: Leveraging Language Models for Explainable Model Diagnostics - ICML 2023. Neural Conversational AI Workshop. (link)
Representation Reliability and Its Impact on Downstream Tasks - RSS 2023 Workshop on Safe Autonomy 2023 (link)
Invited talk on "Estimating Robustness using Proxies": Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). May 2023. (link)
Embedding Reliability: On the Predictability of Downstream Performance - Neurips 2022 AI-Safety (link)
Improving Identity-Robustness for Face Models - ICML 2023. Workshop on Spurious Correlations, Invariance, and Stability. (link)
Estimating Structural Disparities for Face Models - CVPR 2022 (link)
Character-focused Video Thumbnail Retrieval - ICML 2020 ML4MD (link)
Invited talk on "Relating First-person and Third-person Vision": Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). July 2018.
Paper Accepted to European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2018)
Integrating Egocentric Videos in Top-view Surveillance Videos: Joint Identification and Temporal Alignment
Paper published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) journal:
Paper published in Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) journal:
Robotics Intern at iRobot, Pasadena, CA - Summer 2016.
Paper published in European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV'16):
Paper published in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'15):
"Geo-semantic Segmentation" [ PDF | Project Page | Image Dataset | GIS Dataset | Code |BibTeX]
Paper published in European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV'14):
Paper published in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'14):