Portrait of Alborz Geramifard

Alborz Geramifard

Distinguished Scientist · LinkedIn Core AI

I work on reinforcement learning, LLM-based agents, and conversational AI. Previously I led research teams at Meta Reality Labs and Amazon Alexa, and did my PhD at MIT.

Experience
Education
Selected

Highlights over the years

  1. 2025
    AAAI · Bridge program

    Advancing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration

  2. 2024
    AAAI · Workshop

    Synergy of Reinforcement Learning and Large Language Models

  3. 2022
    Meta · Public release

    Project CAIRaoke: Building the assistants of the future with breakthroughs in conversational AI

  4. 2019 – 2022
    NeurIPS / ICML · Workshop series

    Reinforcement Learning for Real Life

  5. 2018
    Amazon · Public release · Video

    An Introduction to Markov Decision Processes and Reinforcement Learning

  6. 2017 – 2019
    NeurIPS · Workshop series

    Conversational AI Workshop

    2017 · 2018 · 2019

  7. 2017
    Amazon · Public release · Video

    Alexa MovieBot

Community

Service

Editor

  • Machine Learning Journal, Special Issue on Reinforcement Learning for Real Life 2020
  • AI Magazine, Special Issue on Conversational AI 2020

Area Chair

  • LREC 2026
  • AAMAS 2025
  • RLC 2025
  • ACL 2020 – 2024
  • NAACL 2020 – 2024
  • EMNLP 2020 – 2022

Organizer

  • AAAI Bridge: Workshop on Multi-Agent Collaboration (WMAC) 2027
  • AAAI Bridge: Advancing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Collaboration 2026
  • AAAI Workshop: Synergy of RL and LLMs 2024
  • ICML Workshop: RL for Real Life 2019 – 2022
  • NeurIPS Workshop: Human in the Loop Dialogue Systems 2020
  • ACL Workshop: Safety for Conversational AI 2020
  • West Coast NLP Summit (WeCNLP) 2019 – 2020
  • NeurIPS Workshop: Conversational AI 2017 – 2019
  • NeurIPS Workshop: Advances in ML for Sensorimotor Control 2013
  • NeurIPS Workshop: Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Reliable Planning and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty 2013
  • CDC Workshop: Intelligent Planning and Control 2012