About

Research Experience

• Research Assistant, Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative

  Jun, 2023 - Current6 months

  Working on numerical simulations of non-linear up-conversion processes using Recurrent Neural Networks under the supervision of Prof. Sergio Carbajo.

• Research Assistant, QuOne Lab at Phanous Research and Innovation Centre

  Jun, 2021 - Sept, 2022 15 months

  Researching Quantum Machine Learning methods under the supervision of Prof. Salman Beigi.

  • Assisting the senior researchers with their ongoing research on QML.

  • Working on the theory and numerical simulations of a paper on Quantum Lazy Training.

  • Reading Papers and giving talks about various QML papers at the research group's weekly meetings.

  • Designing assignments and educational material for the 1000qubit workshop.

Publications

Projects Experience

• QSVT in Qiskit, IBM's Qiskit Hackaton Europe 2021

  Apr, 2021 - Jun, 20211 month

  Implementing a quantum search algorithm based on Quantum Singular Value framework in Qiskit.

  • QSVT in Qiskit was selected as one of the top 3 winning projects of IBM's Qiskit Hackaton Europe 2021.

  • Quantum Singular Value Transformation (QSVT) is a framework that allows one to apply an arbitrary polynomial transformation to the singular values of a block-encoded unitary transformation.

  • In its current form, this project contains QSVT-implemented quantum search, utilizing Fixed-point Amplitude Amplification.

• Maqenta

  Jul, 2021 - Oct, 20212 months

  Maqenta is a software for generating music using Quantum Machine Learning

  • Maqenta uses methods such as Quantum Long Short-Term Memory and Quantum Generative Adversarial Networks for generating music.

  • Maqenta processes music in the form of MIDI files and after running the data through quantum machine learning methods, generates new music.

  • Maqenta served as Erfan's BSc project.

• Reimage-GPT

  May, 2023 - Jun, 20238 months

  Reimage-GPT is an effort to make prompt-generation easier for using diffusion models

  • In this project, we fine-tuned a Large Language Model (LLM) to come up with a good prompt for a target image.

  • First, an input image is separated into a text representation of its most important elements and their respective locations using Facebook's Detectron2 model.

  • Then, a GPT-like model is instructed to come up with a good image-generation prompt using the text generated in the previous step.

  • Then, GPT's output text is passed onto the Stable Diffusion model to get an output image.

  • Finally, the distance between the output and input images is used as loss function to fine-tune the weights of the LLM.

• Q

  Jul, 2020 - Jan, 20218 months

  Q is the progress of Erfan's early research experience in quantum computing and quantum mechanics.

  • Q contains solutions to Microsoft’s quantum programming exercises in Q#.

  • Q contains solutions to the programming exercises of Prof. Peter Wittek’s QML course in Qiskit.

  • Q also includes the list of the quantum papers, books and online courses that Erfan has gone through.

• AUT-ICPC information and registration website

  Jun, 2019 - Jan, 20194 months

  AUT-ICPC’s website is used by the AUT-ICPC contest’s participants to register in and gather more information about the contest.

  • AUT-ICPC’s website is built using Django on the back-end and React.JS on the front-end.

  • AUT-ICPC’s website uses technologies such as Ngnix, PostgreSQL, REST framework and Redis.

Extracurricular Activities

• Students’ Scientific Chapter of AUT’s Department of Computer Engineering

  Mar, 2019 - Sept, 2020 18 months

  Served as a board member and the head of contests.

  • Organized and provided technical means for the 6th Amirkabir Programming League.

  • Organized the 1st Amirkabir Artificial Intelligence Summer Summit.

  • Organized and provided technical means for the 19th Amirkabir ICPC.

  • Organized the 11th Amirkabir Linux Festival.

  • And many more talks, seminars and workshops.

• The Student Council of AUT's Department of Computer Engineering

  Feb, 2018 - Jan, 2020 20 months

  Served as a student volunteer for the Student Council, helping out with their various tasks.

  • Writer and editor for the council's Poyesh Magazine.

  • Executive staff and content provider for the department's 30th anniversary, Persian New Year's Celebration and entrance ceremony for freshmen.

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