Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh

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Experience

Summer 2026
Higharc
AI Research Intern — AI R&D Team
Summer 2025
Apple
Software Engineering Intern — machine learning for wireless
Summer 2024
Apple
Software Engineering Intern — LLMs for wireless
2021
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Research Intern — machine learning for networks
2020 – 2021
TU Berlin
Research Intern — deep reinforcement learning for software-defined networking

Education

2022 – present
University of Southern California
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
2022 – 2025
University of Southern California
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering
2017 – 2022
Sharif University of Technology
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering

Selected publications

VRIQ: Benchmarking and Diagnosing the Visual-Reasoning IQ of Vision-Language Models

Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh, Jike Zhong, Konstantinos Psounis

arXiv preprint, 2026

Project page arXiv Code VRIQ dataset DiagVRIQ dataset
Echoes of Privacy: Uncovering the Profiling Practices of Voice Assistants

Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh, Elaine Zhu, Kiersten Grieco, Daniel J. Dubois, Konstantinos Psounis, David Choffnes

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2025Oral

Project page Paper arXiv Code & data
MORFI: Multimodal Zero-Shot Reasoning for Financial Time-Series Inference

Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh, Parsa Razmara, Mohammad Erfan Sadeghi, Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo

ICCV 2025 Workshops

Project page Paper Code
VISTA: Vision-Language Inference for Training-Free Stock Time-Series Analysis

Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh, Parsa Razmara, Seyedarmin Azizi, Mohammad Erfan Sadeghi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo

CVPR 2025 Workshop on Transformers for Vision

Project page arXiv Code

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