Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering
Joined Fall 2022
- B.S., Marine Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Nastaran is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering who joined Dr. Sarkar's lab in Fall 2022. Her research interests are in machine learning, deep learning, robotics, and control. She also enjoys reading books, hiking, and watching movies.
Research interests: Machine learning, deep learning, robotics, control
Publications with the lab (5)
- DeCAF: Decentralized consensus-and-factorization for low-rank adaptation of foundation models — Neural Networks (2026)
- ADKO: Agentic Decentralized Knowledge Optimization — arXiv (2026)
- Foundation Model Efficient Fine-Tuning in Centralized and Federated Settings — 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) (2025)
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- A unified convergence theory for large language model efficient fine-tuning — OPT 2024: Optimization for Machine Learning (2024)
- Dimat: Decentralized iterative merging-and-training for deep learning models — Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern … (2024)
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