Sepehr Karimi

Sepehr Karimi

PhD Researcher in AI & Energy Systems

📍 Adelaide University

Machine Learning Energy Forecasting Reinforcement Learning NLP BESS Optimization

👤 About Me

I am a Machine Learning and AI researcher pursuing my PhD at Adelaide University, Australia, under the supervision of Dr. Ali Pourmousavi Kani. My research focuses on developing unified, data-driven frameworks for electricity price forecasting and battery energy storage system (BESS) operation in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM).

Before starting my PhD, I completed my Master's degree in Computer Engineering at the University of Tehran, where I worked at the NLP Lab on domain-specific QA, LLM-based conversational agents, and multilingual chatbot systems. I have also collaborated with research groups at Columbia University and Nottingham Trent University on clinical NLP, EEG-based disease detection, and multimodal deep learning.

⚡ Electricity Price Forecasting 🔋 Energy Storage Optimization 📈 Time-Series Modeling 🧠 NLP & LLMs 🤖 Reinforcement Learning

📚 Selected Publications

2025 Accepted to JMIR
Speech-Based Cognitive Screening: A Systematic Evaluation of LLM Adaptation Strategies
Fatemeh Taherinezhad, M.J. Momeni Nezhad, Sepehr Karimi, Sina Rashidi, et al.
arXiv:2509.03525, 2025
2025 Accepted to LREC 2026
PersianMedQA: Language-Centric Evaluation of LLMs in the Persian Medical Domain
M.J. Ranjbar Kalahroodi, Sepehr Karimi*, A. Sheikholselami*, et al.
arXiv:2506.00250, 2025
2024 Conference
Deep Learning Approaches in EEG Analysis for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease and MCI
T. Morovati*, H. Vaezi*, Sepehr Karimi*, Md Mahmud, et al.
Int. Conference on Applied Intelligence and Informatics, pp. 63–81, 2024

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📰 Recent News

Nov 2025
Starting PhD at Adelaide University

Commenced PhD supported by a National Industry PhD Project with OptiGrid Pty Ltd. ⚡

Mar 2024
SofiaMind's First Client — University of Tehran

Successfully deployed a chatbot system for university services and student inquiries.

Mar 2024
Research Assistantship @ Nottingham Trent University

Systematic review of deep learning on EEG for Alzheimer's detection.

Jan 2024
Research Assistantship @ Columbia University

Joined Dr. Maryam Zolnoori's group, working on LLMs for clinical decision support.

📊 At a Glance

3
Publications
4+
Years Research
3
Institutions
2
Companies

🎓 Education

PhD, Electrical & Electronic Eng.
Adelaide University
2025 – Present
M.Sc., Computer Engineering
University of Tehran
2021 – 2024
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering
Amirkabir University of Technology
2016 – 2021

🛠️ Skills

ML / AI
PyTorchTensorFlow TransformersRLLLMs
Data & Engineering
PythonPandas SQLFastAPIDocker
Energy Systems
BESS OptimizationNEM Analytics Price Forecasting

💼 Experience

Data Scientist & Backend Engineer
OptiGrid Pty Ltd
Oct 2023 – Present
Co-Founder & AI Engineer
SofiaMind
Sep 2023 – Present
Research Assistant
Columbia University
Jan 2024 – Present
Research Assistant
Nottingham Trent University
Mar 2024 – Present