Amir Hossein Kargaran

I’m a Computer Science Ph.D. student at Munich University, advised by Prof. Hinrich Schütze. I’m also affiliated as a junior member with the Munich Center for Machine Learning.

My current research focuses on Multilingual NLP, specifically on scaling NLP technologies to include more languages:

• GlotCC: CommonCrawl corpus for more than 1,000 languages.
• MaskLID: Code-switching language identification for any setup.
• GlotWeb: Web-indexing service for very low-resource languages.
• GlotLID: Language identification for more than 2,000 languages.
• GlotScript: Tool and resource for writing system identification.
• Glot500: Extended version of XLM-R, including a corpus of 500 languages.

Before starting my Ph.D., I completed my M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in 2022. I earned two B.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in 2020. Additionally, I was a research intern with the User Interfaces group at Aalto University during the summers of 2021 and 2022. I contributed to the development of the Aalto Interface Metrics (AIM) project, a service and codebase for computational GUI evaluation.