Arezoo Saedi – consumer health question answering – Innovative Researcher Award

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Arezoo Saedi – consumer health question answering – Innovative Researcher Award

Ms. Arezoo Saedi  Han Zhang distinguished academic and researcher in the field Consumer Health question answering.

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She holds a PhD in Computer Science with a specialization in Software Engineering from the University of Isfahan, where she achieved a GPA of 18.69/20. Her doctoral thesis, titled “Collaborative Management of Task-Oriented Dialogue System to Satisfy User Intention,” focuses on the proactive, collaborative management of task-oriented dialogues, emphasizing user preferences. Her research initially developed an entity search system leveraging reviews about entities. Subsequently, grounded in this entity search system, she created a dialogue system incorporating an innovative dialogue manager and in-context learning of large language models. Prior to her PhD, she completed her MSc in Computer Science, also specializing in Software Engineering at the University of Isfahan, with a GPA of 18.04/20. Her master’s thesis, “Consumer Health Question Classification in a Question Answering System,” addressed the classification of questions as a crucial component of the consumer health question-answering system. In this thesis, she developed a transformer-based methodology to classify consumer health questions effectively, distinguishing them from general consumer inquiries and physicians’ clinical queries. She began her academic journey with a BSc in Computer Science, specializing in Software Engineering, from the University of Isfahan, achieving a GPA of 17.53/20

Experience

She served as a Visiting Researcher at Paris-Saclay University from 2021 to 2022, where she worked on her PhD thesis, “Collaborative Management of Task-Oriented Dialogue System to Satisfy User Intention,” under the co-supervision of Dr. Sophie Rosset and Dr. Anne Vilnat, in collaboration with her thesis advisors at the University of Isfahan. During her stay at Paris-Saclay, she completed rigorous academic research writing and presentation courses that significantly influenced her approach to conducting research. These courses helped her develop the ability to identify research gaps, formulate compelling hypotheses, and systematically investigate them. For example, during the initial phase of her thesis research, she encountered challenges related to data scarcity. Through proactive discussions with her supervisors, she effectively tackled this issue by sourcing valuable and pertinent data, enabling her to construct a comprehensive dataset. Additionally, she was an instructor for the “Principle of Compiler Design” course at the University of Isfahan’s Computer Engineering Department for two semesters from February 2019 to February 2020, where she was responsible for course planning, delivering lectures, and designing assessments for this undergraduate course

Research Focus

She has received numerous honors and awards throughout her academic career. In the summer of 2017, she was awarded honorary admission to the PhD program in Software Engineering for outstanding academic achievement by the University of Isfahan Graduate Studies. From 2014 to 2017, she ranked among the top three students within the Master’s program, achieving the highest position among those specializing in Data Management. During her undergraduate studies from 2010 to 2014, she was ranked as the second top student. She achieved first place in the semi-centralized stage of the 19th Iranian National Collegiate Scientific Olympiad in Computer Engineering in Spring 2014 and was granted honorary admission to the MS program in Software Engineering for exceptional academic achievement by the University of Isfahan Graduate Studies in Spring 2014. Additionally, she attained the 34th position in the final stage of the same Olympiad held in the summer of 2014. Throughout her high school years at Sampad High School, she consistently ranked within the top three students. Furthermore, she received a scholarship from the University of Isfahan to undertake a visiting researcher position at the University of Paris-Saclay, focusing on her PhD thesis.

 

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