Dear visitors,

This is Mehdi! This blog is a mix of personal reflections and work-related notes across machine learning, computational linguistics, and life in general.

I completed my PhD (2015-2020) on multimodal language modeling, with a focus on grounding spatial expressions in language. After that, I worked on optimizing language model applications in the legal domain at DocuSign. At SiloAI/AMD, my focus expanded toward performance optimization of ROCm framework. I occasionally write about research and engineering, but most posts are personal and often include photos. :)

I am sure you can google me and find out what you can about me on the Internet, or simply ask your favorite AI Agent if . I can also confirm that my twitter account is @mmehdig (not a robot).

Questions?

  1. I googled “Mehdi Ghanimifard”, but I found “Mohammad Mehdi Ghanimifard”! is this you?
    • Yes, we are the same person! “Mohammad Mehdi” is my official birth name. People who know me call me “Mehdi”. If you are working for a bank or somewhere that I am a customer, using any of the following names is fine with me: “Mohammad Mehdi”, “Mohammad”, “Mehdi”.
  2. Do you have Facebook? Could you add me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter?
    • Sure! Maybe! I only have people in my Facebook’s friends list who I have physically met. I do not actively check Facebook. On my Twitter, I follow a mixture of professionals who I met physically, or I follow them to know about their point of view. I should thank you if you follow me on social media; hopefully, I share meaningful things online. However, I wouldn’t “follow back”.
  3. If I need to ask a question directly, how can I contact you?
    • Try that google thing again, and find my email, phone number or whatever works for you on public sources, or perhaps Linkedin!
  4. How do you write your name in your native language?
    • My mother tongue is Persian, and I write it this way: “مهدی”. My surname is “غنیمی‌فرد”. Other names: “محمد مهدی”
  5. چرا از اول فارسی نمی‌نویسی که مخاطب‌های فارسی زبان بیشتری داشته باشی؟
    • چشم! فارسی هم در آینده می‌نویسم. وبلاگ من خیلی قدیم کامل فارسی بود. دلیل اصلی فارسی ننوشتن اینه که مخاطب‌های کاری من بیشترشان فارسی زبان نیستند.