About me

I am Ali Salamatian, a 5th-year Computer Science Honours student at the University of British Columbia, researching multimodal models. Currently, I’m working on two projects: efficient video patch selection (supervised by Prof. Leonid Sigal and Prof. Evan Shelhamer), and enhancing vision-language-action models with MCTS (supervised by Prof. Cyrus Neary).

Previously, I collaborated with Prof. Giuseppe Carenini and Prof. Leonid Sigal on ChartGaze, aligning LVLMs’ attention with human gaze, published at EMNLP 2025.

I really enjoy multimodal research and collaborating with others so feel free to reach out if you have any interesting ideas!

News

• 2025.08: Our ChartGaze paper was accepted to EMNLP 2025 (main proceedings).

• 2025.8: Received Trek Excellence Scholarship (top 5% of faculty of science)

• 2025.05: Started my internship at Amazon

• 2024.05: Received Undergraduate Student Research Awards

• 2023.05: Started my internship at Mastercard, the Data Services Departmen

• 2022.05: Started my internship at Mastercard, the Decision Management Platform Team