I am Nikan Doosti
'Nikan' means all the goodness in the world and it's a Persian-Zoroastrian name, and 'Doosti' literally means friendship! and I always try to live up to my name! 😊

I’m a full-time graduate researcher in ADDLab group at Aalto University 🇫🇮, currently working on integration of data-driven deep learning in additive manufacturing (metal 3D printing) process for defect detection and healing, in collaboration with Electro Optical Systems GmbH 🇩🇪.
Previously, as an startup founder and ML engineer, I was focusing on formal verification of experts' insight as a pior for LLM adoption. Prior to that, as an ML engineer, I utilized artificial intelligence to provide data-driven decision making by representing domain experitise in a tabular form. Previously, I did a research internship at Max Planck Institute for Informatics at AIDAM group in Germany 🇩🇪 in collab with UC Davis 🇺🇸, working on applications of machine learning in digital fabrication, specifically implicit neural representation and surrogate modeling via differentiabe physics-based simulator. Prior to that, I was mainly focused on classic computer vision, specifically digital image processing.

• 🧐 I'm interested in scientific machine learning, physics-based simulation, and making inductive biases differentiable, and I'm passionate about researching fully self-supervised end-to-end implicit representations via differentiable modeling especially for inverse problems!
• ⚛️ As above, I prefer objective represention of what we already know (physics, geometry, etc.) rather than subjective one (natural language); so I follow connectomics in computational modeling, and personal life!
• 💓 I'm always open to collaborate and having a discussion around research, from ideation to dissemination, industry challenges, and even setting up a lobby to play Factorio/other!
• 💬 I'm a nonconformist, so ask me about anything, but I don't know how much I don't know. I don't promise the best (most accurate) or the expected (what you might like to hear) response! So don't hesitate to email me.
• 📫 How to reach me: My email nikan [dot] doosti [at] outlook [dot] com (more details on the bottom of home page of my website)
• ⭐ Giving stars is a small gesture, but it means a lot! So give stars to cool projects.

I follow Github timeline almost everyday (Works as a social media for me :D).