Mahdi Erfanian

I’m Mahdi Erfanian, second year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, where I am a member of the IndexLab under the supervision of Dr. Abolfazl Asudeh. I got my B.Sc in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. My research spans Multi-modal Data Management, Algorithmic Fairness, and Foundation Models. I am particularly interested in employing foundation models, including large language models, to address different challenges in data management—such as mitigating bias in training data and enhancing multi-modal data retrieval through synthetic data generation. Additionally, I am passionate about Algorithm Design, with a focus on optimizing both fairness and efficiency in data-driven systems.