Hi there! I’m Javad Pourmostafa /’dʒævɒd puːr’moʊs’tae’fɑː/! I use the usernames “joeybright” or “joyebright” whenever available.
I’m a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI) at Tilburg University. My Ph.D. project focuses on domain-specific machine translation and quality estimation systems. I work with Dr. Dimitar Shterionov and Prof. Dr. Ir. Pieter Spronck.
Before joining Tilburg University, I was a postgraduate member of the Guilan NLP Group and a part-time lecturer at the Computer Engineering Department of the University of Guilan. I earned my BSc and MSc degrees in Software Engineering in 2016 and 2019, respectively. During my master’s thesis, I designed sentiment analysis models using deep learning architectures for low-resource languages, with a focus on Persian. I was fortunate to work under the supervision of Dr. Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel.
My research mainly centralizes on natural language processing and deep learning.
Some topics of interest to me are:
- Machine Translation (MT)
- Multilingual and multi-domain domain adaptation for neural MT
- Quality Estimation
- Data Selection
- In-context Learning in LLMs for translation tasks
- Sentiment Analysis
Feel free to drop me a line if you’d like to collaborate with me on the topics that intersect with NLP and DL.