Behzad Shomali

I'm currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Bonn / Lamarr Institute, with a focus on reasoning in large language models (LLMs).

Over the years, I've worked across both academia and industry, gaining experience in research, applied machine learning, and effective collaboration. This has included publishing research papers, building machine learning applications, and collaborating across interdisciplinary teams.

My Master's thesis at BMW Group focused on developing a probabilistic latency predictor for neural architecture search (NAS). Before that, at FEV Group in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University, I worked on building LLM-based AI assistants for coding environments. Earlier in my career, during my time at the Max Planck Institute, I was involved in analyzing high-dimensional scans of the C. elegans brain.