Yasser Souri
My official name (in my passport) is Yaser Souri (یاسر سوری). I also publish as Yaser Souri. But I prefer to write it as Yasser.
My official name (in my passport) is Yaser Souri (یاسر سوری). I also publish as Yaser Souri. But I prefer to write it as Yasser.
Senior Applied Scientist, Microsoft
yassersouri@gmail.com
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About Me
I am a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft, part of the Turing team where I work on LLM post training for Copilot.
I earned my PhD from the University of Bonn, working under the supervision of Prof. Juergen Gall on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. I completed my Master's degree at the Sharif University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Shohreh Kasaei, focusing on deep learning for visual recognition. I obtained my undergrad degree in Computer Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology.
During Fall/Winter 2020, I interned at Google Research - Zurich, working with Rodrigo Benenson and Vittorio Ferrari
For the complete set of papers see Google Scholar.
Newer Papers (at Microsoft)
WebSTAR: Scalable Data Synthesis for Computer Use Agents with Step-Level Filtering
ACL 2026 · arXiv · website · dataset · code
Consistent Diffusion Language Models
ICML 2026 · arXiv
Older Papers (at University)
Robust Action Segmentation from Timestamp Supervision
BMVC 2022 · arXiv · code
FIFA: Fast Inference Approximation for Action Segmentation
GCPR 2021 · arXiv · video · supmat · code
Fast Weakly Supervised Action Segmentation Using Mutual Consistency
TPAMI 2021 · arXiv · ieee · supmat · code
What Object Should I Use? – Task Driven Object Detection
CVPR 2019 · arXiv · project · code · dataset