Salar (M.sc.) M.

Guest Researcher / Guest Lecturer

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Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jan 2022 - Present
4 years
Berlin, Germany

Guest Researcher / Guest Lecturer

Technical University of Berlin

  • Designed and taught a popular online NLP course on KI-Campus, reaching 1,000+ learners across Germany.
  • Lectured in TU Berlin’s “Natural Language Processing” course (Summer Semesters), focusing on statistical-based methods and evaluation.
  • Delivered “Advanced NLP” lectures (Winter Semesters), covering generative models, fine-tuning, and multimodal learning.
Jan 2019 - Present
7 years
Berlin, Germany

Senior Research Scientist

German Research Center for AI (DFKI)

  • Designed and led development of multimodal evaluation frameworks for large language models, adopted in multiple internal and collaborative research projects.
  • Created and managed Deutsche Telekom’s “LLMs Learning Journey,” an industry-oriented program training 50+ professionals in generative AI applications.
  • Developed and released TextComplexityDE, the first large-scale dataset for German text readability assessment, now used in academic and industrial research.
Jan 2016 - Dec 2018
3 years
Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Guest Lecturer

University of Science and Culture

  • Taught undergraduate course “Fundamentals of Data Mining,” introducing machine learning, feature extraction, and evaluation techniques.
Jan 2014 - Dec 2019
6 years
Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Researcher and Developer

ICT Research Institute of ACECR

  • Developed Hamtajoo, a Persian plagiarism detection platform for academic papers, adopted by multiple Iranian universities and research institutions.
  • Created Parsivar, an open-source Persian NLP toolkit (normalization, stemming, POS tagging), downloaded 1K+ times and cited in 60+ research papers.

Summary

Has successfully participated in the Software Campus Program. The Program trains master and doctoral students as future IT executives and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

From 01 January 2021 to 31 December 2022, Salar Mohtaj implemented his own IT research project "Investigating Language Structure in Fake and Authentic Stories" (ILSFAS) in close cooperation with the partners Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. As part of this program, he expanded his management skills with special management training courses and refined his personal skills through mentoring.

The project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with up to 100,000 euros.

Languages

Persian
Native
English
Advanced
German
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2020 - Jun 2024

Technische Universität Berlin

PhD in Computer Engineering · Computer Engineering · Berlin, Germany

Oct 2011 - Jun 2014

AmirKabir University of Technology

Master’s in Information Technology · Information Technology · Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Oct 2006 - Jun 2011

Shahrood University of Technology

Bachelor’s in Information Technology · Information Technology · Shahrud, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Certifications & licenses

Innovation Management

Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH

Change Management

Trumpf SE + Co. KG

New as a Leader - Basics for Future Leaders

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Design Thinking

Trumpf SE + Co. KG

Diversity: Successfully Leading Diverse Teams and Promoting Potential

Volkswagen AG

Powerful Virtual Presentations And Story Telling

Software AG

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