Sedigheh Eslami

Member of Technical Staff, Search, Perplexity
PhD student, AI and Intelligent Systems, Hasso Plattner Institute
Joined
June 2023

Names

Sedigheh Eslami (Preferred)

Emails

****@hpi.de (Confirmed)
, 
****@jina.ai (Confirmed)
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****@perplexity.ai (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Member of Technical Staff
Search, Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
2025 – Present
PhD student
AI and Intelligent Systems, Hasso Plattner Institute (hpi.de)
2022 – 2026
Intern
Embedding, Jina AI (jina.ai)
2025 – 2025
MS student
Computer Science, Saarland University, Universität des Saarlandes (cs.uni-saarland.de)
2014 – 2017
Undergrad student
Computer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (aut.ac.ir)
2009 – 2014

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Gerard de Melo
2021 – Present

Expertise

Contrastive learning
, 
text embeddings
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information retrieval
Present
Vision-Language Foundation Models
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Multi-modal Representation Learning
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Self-supervised Learning
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Contrastive Learning
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Visual Question Answering
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Open-Vocabulary Object Detection
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CLIP
2021 – Present

Publications

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Co-Authors

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