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)
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****@jina.ai (Confirmed)
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****@perplexity.ai (Confirmed)

Career & Education History

Member of Technical Staff
Search, Perplexity (perplexity.ai)
2025Present
 
PhD student
AI and Intelligent Systems, Hasso Plattner Institute (hpi.de)
20222026
 
Intern
Embedding, Jina AI (jina.ai)
20252025
 
MS student
Computer Science, Saarland University, Universität des Saarlandes (cs.uni-saarland.de)
20142017
 
Undergrad student
Computer Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (aut.ac.ir)
20092014
 

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
2021Present
 

Expertise

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