Salar (M.sc.) M.
Guest Researcher / Guest Lecturer
Experience
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.
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.
Guest Lecturer
University of Science and Culture
- Taught undergraduate course “Fundamentals of Data Mining,” introducing machine learning, feature extraction, and evaluation techniques.
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
Education
Technische Universität Berlin
PhD in Computer Engineering · Computer Engineering · Berlin, Germany
AmirKabir University of Technology
Master’s in Information Technology · Information Technology · Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of
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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