Yashar Mehdad (Preferred)
Yashar Mehdad
Names
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Emails
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****@gmail.com
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Personal Links
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Education & Career History
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Research Scientist Manager
Facebook (fb.com)
2019 – Present
AI Lead and Manager
Airbnb (airbnb.com)
2016 – 2019
Research Scientist and Manager
Yahoo (yahoo-inc.com)
2014 – 2016
Research Collaborator
IBM, SAP (ubc.ca)
2012 – 2014
Postdoc & Research Scientist
University of British Columbia (ubc.ca)
2011 – 2013
PhD
University of Trento (unitn.it)
2007 – 2011
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
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Expertise
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Question Answering
2016 – 2020
Information Extraction, entity linking, entity extraction
2014 – 2020
Summarization
2011 – 2016
Textual Entailment, textual inference, crosslingual textual entailment
2007 – 2011