Portrait of Radin Cheraghi in front of the Hong Kong skyline

Radin Cheraghi

AI Researcher

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering
Sharif University of Technology

Tehran, Iran

I recently graduated with a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. I am interested in information retrieval, retrieval-augmented generation, and reasoning and reliability in language models.

I am a remote research assistant at LS3 Lab, University of Toronto & Reviewerly, advised by Prof. Ebrahim Bagheri and Dr. Negar Arabzadeh. Previously, I was a summer research intern at the University of Hong Kong’s STAR Lab, advised by Prof. Reynold Cheng.

My current work focuses on deep research agents: how to help agents find, recognize, and use the evidence needed for well-supported answers.

Education

Sharif University of Technology

Sept 2022 – Sept 2026

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering · Tehran, Iran
GPA: 19.70/20  ·  Class rank: 6/201

Selected coursework: Advanced Information Retrieval; Machine Learning; Artificial Intelligence; System 2 (Reasoning) AI; Reinforcement Learning; Probability & Statistics; Linear Algebra.

Research Interests

  • Information retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation
  • Natural language processing and large language models
  • Reasoning and planning in language models
  • LLM reliability and safety

Publications

Google Scholar ↗
  1. Peerify: Benchmarking Peer-Review Claim Verification

    Alireza Daghighfarsoodeh, Sajad Ebrahimi, Ali Ghorbanpour, Soroush Sadeghian, Radin Cheraghi, Negar Arabzadeh, Ebrahim Bagheri

    EMNLP 2026 · Industry Track

    Paper ↗
  2. PeerPrism: Peer Evaluation Expertise vs Review-writing AI

    Soroush Sadeghian, Alireza Daghighfarsoodeh, Radin Cheraghi, Sajad Ebrahimi, Negar Arabzadeh, Ebrahim Bagheri

    SIGIR 2026 · Resource Track

    Paper ↗
  3. SELECT: Setwise Efficient Log-probability Estimation for Competitive Tournament Ranking

    Amirhossein Ghadami, Amin Bigdeli, Radin Hamidi Rad, Radin Cheraghi, Negar Arabzadeh, Charles LA Clarke, Ebrahim Bagheri

    Under review at WWW 2027

  4. A Multidimensional Study of LLM Deception: Capability, Value Priorities, and Contextual Triggers

    Radin Cheraghi, Arash Marioriyad, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

    Unpublished manuscript

  5. Epistemic Uncertainty-aware Recommendation Systems via Bayesian Deep Ensemble Learning

    Radin Cheraghi, Amir Mohammad Mahfoozi, Sepehr Zolfaghari, Mohammadshayan Shabani, Maryam Ramezani, Hamid R. Rabiee

    arXiv preprint, 2025

    Earlier preprint ↗

    A substantially revised and extended version is under review at WWW 2027.

Research Experience

LS3 Lab, University of Toronto & Reviewerly

Dec 2025 – Present

Research Assistant · Remote

Advisors: Prof. Ebrahim Bagheri & Dr. Negar Arabzadeh

Peer-review datasets and AI-text detection; retrieval-augmented verification of peer-review claims; question decomposition and evidence retrieval for deep research agents.

Machine Learning Lab, Sharif University of Technology

Oct 2025 – Present

Research Assistant

Advisor: Prof. Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Evaluating LLM deception through benchmarks and interactive games, examining reasoning, planning, value priorities, and contextual triggers.

Daisy Lab, Sharif University of Technology

Aug 2026 – Present

Research Assistant

Advisor: Prof. Maryam Ramezani

Neural extensions of mechanistic diffusion models for interpretable forecasting of information cascades.

STAR Lab, The University of Hong Kong

Jun – Sept 2025

Summer Research Intern

Advisor: Prof. Reynold Cheng

Query decomposition and knowledge graphs for multi-hop question answering, with bandit-based optimization of evidence retrieval.

Data Science & Machine Learning Lab, Sharif

Sept 2024 – Apr 2025

Research Assistant

Advisors: Prof. Hamid R. Rabiee & Prof. Maryam Ramezani

Bayesian collaborative filtering using uncertainty-aware user–item representations, learned matching, and ensemble predictions.

Selected Projects

System 2 Reasoning in AI

Neuro-symbolic reasoning, inference-time search, LLM post-training with GRPO, and graph-based retrieval-augmented generation.

Honors & Awards

  • HKU CDS Summer Research Internship Programme — selected as one of 50 undergraduate participants worldwide, 2025.
  • Cornell–Maryland–Max Planck Pre-Doctoral Research School (CMMRS) — selected as one of 80 undergraduate and master’s participants, 2025.
  • Iranian National University Entrance Examination — ranked 45th among 145,615 candidates in Mathematics (top 0.03%), 2022.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Sharif University of Technology

System 2 (Reasoning) AI; Artificial Intelligence; Intelligent Analysis of Biomedical Images; Linear Algebra; Engineering Probability and Statistics; Data Structures and Algorithms; Computer Structure and Machine Language; Fundamentals of Programming (Python).