About Me

I am a second-year PhD student at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich, working under the supervision of Prof. Hinrich Schütze. My current research focuses on memory-augmented large language models and, more broadly, on interactive language modeling. My NLP research journey began during my MSc, which was supervised by Mohammad Taher Pilehvar. At that time, I investigated explainability methods and the interpretability of pre-trained language models, and I am still involved in some projects in this area.

P.S. My full name is Seyed MohammadAli Modarressi, but Ali is my preferred first name, which is why I use it in my writings and publications.

News

• Mar 2023: Joined at CIS, LMU Munich as a PhD Student.
• Aug 2022: Successfully defended my MSc. Thesis.
• Sep 2021: Two papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2021 (main conference & BlackboxNLP).
• May 2021: At the TeIAS graduate NLP course, I co-presented (w. Hosein Mohebbi) a guest lecture on interpretability.
• Apr 2021: Our intepretability work is now available: Exploring the Role of BERT Token Representations to Explain Sentence Probing Results