Ehsan Barkhordar

NLP Computational Social Science Bias & Evaluation Agentic AI

I'm an NLP researcher working on bias detection, multilingual NLP, and the social-science side of language models. These days I'm spending most of my time on agentic AI — how LLM-based agents reason, collaborate, and break under realistic conditions.

3.8/4 M.Sc. GPA, Koç

100+ Papers reviewed

6+ Years in industry

Open to PhD opportunities. If your group works on agentic AI, NLP for social science, or evaluation of LLM behavior, I'd love to connect.

Background

I received my M.Sc. in Computer Science from Koç University with a 3.8 / 4.0 GPA, advised by Asst. Prof. Gözde Gül Şahin (primary) and Prof. Erdem Yörük (co-advisor). Alongside and before Koç, I worked in industry as a technical lead, ML engineer, and senior software engineer building production systems and predictive models, and I also hold an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Computer Science from Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic).

I’ve authored multiple first-author papers at venues including EMNLP, ACM Web Science, LREC-COLING (SIGUL), and CASE workshops, and serve as a reviewer for ARR, EMNLP, ICLR, and related venues — 100+ papers reviewed to date.

Beyond research

Exploring nature

Strategic video games

Competitive volleyball in high school

Political discussions, occasionally

Selected highlights

LOBSTER — language-of-study bias in NLP peer reviews EMNLP 2026, Main Conference Google Scholar Full publication list and citations Projects Research and engineering work

News

Aug 21, 2026	🎉 Our paper “Are Non-English Papers Reviewed Fairly? Language-of-Study Bias in NLP Peer Reviews” has been accepted to the EMNLP 2026 Main Conference (15.4% acceptance rate)! See you in Budapest. Joint work with Abdulfattah Safa, Verena Blaschke, Erika Lombart, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, and Gözde Gül Şahin. [arXiv] [code & data]
Mar 17, 2026	📝 We submitted our new paper “Are Non-English Papers Reviewed Fairly? Language-of-Study Bias in NLP Peer Reviews” to ACL ARR 2026 March! This is joint work with Abdulfattah Safa, Verena Blaschke, Erika Lombart, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, and Gözde Gül Şahin.
Jan 15, 2026	🎓 I successfully defended my M.Sc. thesis in Computer Science and Engineering at Koç University, under the supervision of Asst. Prof. Gözde Gül Şahin.