Ashkan Shahbazi

I’m a computer science PhD candidate at Vanderbilt University, advised by Prof. Soheil Kolouri. My research focuses on large language models, attention mechanisms and transformers, geometric deep learning, and computational optimal transport. I’m particularly interested in designing efficient geometric priors that make LLMs and vision–language models both more expressive and resource-efficient.

Before joining Vanderbilt, I earned my B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology.