Hey, I'm Arshia!

I am a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, in Dr. Lotfollahi’s lab. Before this I read for an MSc at Oxford, in the Torr Vision Group under Prof. Philip Torr and at OATML under Prof. Yarin Gal, with an earlier stretch at CAMP, TU Munich, under Prof. Nassir Navab.

At the Sanger I aim the same question at biology, where ground truth costs a week of lab time and nobody can spot a wrong answer by looking at it. The work runs lab in the loop: the model proposes, the bench checks, and the model’s certainty is what decides which experiments are worth the week.

I once built a benchmark that humans solve instantly and frontier models mostly fail. I think about that more than is healthy.

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2026

Sep 1

Started my PhD at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, in the Lotfollahi lab, funded by the BBSRC DTP.

Aug 20

TDGNet: Hallucination Detection in Diffusion Language Models via Temporal Dynamic Graphs was accepted to the EMNLP 2026 main conference!

Jun 15

HoloTea was accepted at MLCB 2026 for an oral presentation.

2025

Nov 18

HoloTea is on arXiv: 3D-guided flow matching that generates volumetric spatial transcriptomics from serial histology.

Nov 10

VAGUE-Gate was accepted to the IJCNLP-AACL 2025 main track.

Oct 20

PersianCLEVR was accepted as a spotlight at the NeurIPS 2025 workshop on vision-language models for real-world data, and ScenePhys at the workshop on Evaluation of World Models.

Aug 25

Joined the Wellcome Sanger Institute as a visiting researcher in computational single-cell genomics.

Mar 15

Our systematic review of language models in requirement engineering was published in Frontiers in Computer Science.

2024

Sep 26

IllusionBench was accepted to the NeurIPS 2024 datasets and benchmarks track.