Sherin Dehghani

AI Software Engineer · LLMs, AI Agents & Agentic Workflows

I am an experienced AI Engineer and Data Scientist with expertise in deep learning, NLP, and production-level AI applications. I design scalable ML models, AI-driven solutions, and LLM fine-tuning pipelines for real-world use.

I currently work as an AI Software Engineer at ADLAS in Vienna, Austria, building generative-AI document processing and conversational AI workflow builders. Previously, I held AI Engineer and Data Scientist roles at SnappShop, InoUp, and Metodata.

I am passionate about building AI-powered tools that drive real business impact — from AI agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation to end-to-end AI system development.

Industry Experience

Dec 2025 – Present
Vienna, Austria

AI Software Engineer

ADLAS

Built an end-to-end AI-powered document processing solution using generative AI and OCR to extract structured and unstructured data from material specification files. Designed a conversational AI workflow builder that turns natural-language requests into fully automated workflows.

Feb 2025 – Dec 2025
Tehran, Iran

AI Engineer

SnappShop

Developed an AI agent that autonomously enriches Elasticsearch and e-commerce product data with generative AI, improving search relevance and product discovery. Fine-tuned embedding models to improve similarity search in recommender systems via contrastive learning.

Feb 2025 – May 2025
Tehran, Iran

AI Engineer (Contract)

InoUp

Designed a data-crawling infrastructure and service for the Jobinja platform and built an AI model to compute job-related metrics and answer employer inquiries about candidate resumes.

Dec 2021 – Feb 2025
Tehran, Iran

AI Engineer & Data Scientist

Metodata

Built LLM-powered agents leveraging real-time Twitter insights for data-driven trading, and an Agentic RAG Twitter bot for automated content creation. Fine-tuned GPT-3.5, LLaMA2, and Mistral with RAG and LoRA; developed Persian stance detection and sentiment analysis models reaching 83% and 94% accuracy. Productionized models with FastAPI and Docker.

Aug 2021 – Oct 2021
Tehran, Iran

AI Startup camper & Researcher

DigiNext

Designed an AI-driven social listening platform using NLP to analyze public sentiment and detect emerging trends, with deep-learning text analytics pipelines for large-scale data.

Academic Experience

Sep 2022 – May 2024
Tehran, Iran

Research Assistant & Developer

Allameh Tabataba'i University

Conducted research on deep learning for NLP and developed a novel AI-based legal assistant system that improved accuracy and efficiency in legal document analysis.

Mar 2023 – Jun 2023
Padua, Italy

Research Collaborator

Università degli Studi di Padova

Developed a novel matrix-completion approach using Radial Basis Functions (RBF) and an optimal Truncated SVD (TSVD) to enhance recommender systems.

Skills

Programming Languages

Python R Java JavaScript / TypeScript

Frameworks & Tools

LangChain LangGraph PyTorch Transformers TensorFlow LlamaIndex scikit-learn vLLM FastAPI Docker Kubernetes Airflow MLflow Redis PostgreSQL MongoDB ClickHouse Azure Git

Focus Areas

Large Language Models AI Agents & Agentic Workflows Retrieval-Augmented Generation End-to-End AI Systems Prompt Engineering LLM Security & AI Safety LLM Alignment (RLHF) SaaS Product Development

Education

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M.Sc. in Computer Science

Allameh Tabataba'i University

GPA: 4.0 / 4.0

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B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applications

Kharazmi University

GPA: 3.6 / 4.0

Publications

2025

Open-source LLMs for text annotation: a practical guide for model setting and fine-tuning

M. Alizadeh, M. Kubli, Z. Samei, S. Dehghani, M. M. Zahedivafa, J. D. Bermeo, M. Korobeynikova, F. Gilardi

Journal of Computational Social Science, 2025

2024

Exploring Relationships Between Cryptocurrency News Outlets and Influencers' Twitter Activity and Market Prices

M. Alizadeh, Y. Asgari, Z. Samei, S. Yari, S. Dehghani, M. Kubli, D. Zare, J. D. Bermeo, V. Batzdorfer, F. Gilardi

IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2024

2024

Leveraging Large Language Models for Fact-Checking Farsi News Headlines

S. Dehghani, M. M. Zahedivafa, Z. Baghshahi, D. Zare, S. Yari, Z. Samei, M. H. Aliahmadi, M. Abbasi, S. Mirzamojtahedi, S. Ebrahimi, M. Alizadeh

Multidisciplinary Int. Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM), 2024

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I'm always open to discussing research, collaborations, or interesting ideas in AI. The best way to reach me is by email, or connect with me on LinkedIn.