About me

Sina is a Computer Science Ph.D student at the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Prof. Adriana Kovashka. Sina’s research interests lie in computer vision, multimodal learning (e.g., vision-language models), and generative AI, aiming to build a more robust and generalizable system that can understand and reason about complex visual data. He is currently working on:

• Multimodal & abstract Reasoning: Multimodal Reasoning and Diffusion Models
• Domain Robustness: Multimodal domain generalization, generalization across geographies, etc.
• Generative AI: text-to-image/creative & persuasive generation.

Feel free to reach me at sem238 [AT] pitt [DOT] edu or siinamalakouti [AT] gmail [DOT] com

Good News!

• [10.2024] A paper was accepted to WACV’25 in Tucson,AZ.
• [09.2024] Received an Outstanding Reviewer award from ECCV’24, Milan, Italy
• [09.2024] Our paper Benchmarking VLMs’ Reasoning About Persuasive Atypical Images is available on ArXiv.
• [Summer’24] Joined Prime Video at Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern in New York, NY.
• [04.2024] A paper was accepted to CVPR’2024 in Seattle.
• [04.2024] I passed my Oral Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam!
• [08.2023] A paper accepted to BMVC’23 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
• [Summer’23] Joined Search and Monetization at eBay as an Applied Research Intern in San Jose, CA.
• [Summer’22] Joined Apple as a Computer Vision Intern in Cupertino, CA.

Prior and Current Experiences

Before starting his PhD at Upitt, Sina defended his BSc in Software Engineering, focusing on Artificial Intelligence. During his BSc, Sina was an intern at Shahid Rajaei Hospital & Research Center under the supervision of Dr. Mehrdad Oveisi and an undergraduate research intern at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, supervised by Prof. Stefan Kramer and Dr. Zahra Ahmadi in the Summer of 2018. During his PhD, Sina spent three summers at Apple, eBay, and Amazon as research intern.