Amir Ata Ghaffarian

I’m a Research Intern in the Genomics & Regulatory Systems Unit at OIST, working with Prof. Nicholas Luscombe and Dr. Charles Plessy. I use self-supervised learning and graph neural networks to decode how genomes rearrange across the tree of life.

I hold a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Amirkabir University of Technology (GPA 4.0/4.0, ranked 3rd in my cohort). Before OIST I worked as a DevOps engineer and interned in SRE and backend engineering, so I care about reproducible pipelines as much as about models.

I’m interested in world models, reinforcement learning, embodied AI and computational biology, and I’m applying for Ph.D. positions starting in 2027.