Hi there! I’m Javad Pourmostafa /’dʒævɒd puːr’moʊs’tae’fɑː/!

I am currently a lecturer at the Department of Intelligent Systems, and affiliated with the Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence (CSAI) research center at Tilburg University.

I received my PhD on March 4, 2026, at Tilburg University. During my PhD, I studied how to make machine translation and quality estimation models more domain-specific, improving their robustness in specialized domains. My dissertation is available here. I worked with Dr. Dimitar Shterionov and Prof. Dr. Ir. Pieter Spronck.

Before joining Tilburg University, I was a postgraduate member of the Guilan NLP Group and a lecturer at the Computer Engineering Department of the University of Guilan. I earned my BSc and MSc degrees in Software Engineering in 2016 and 2019, respectively. My master’s thesis focused on sentiment analysis for low-resource languages—particularly Persian—using deep learning architectures. I was fortunate to be supervised by Dr. Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel.

My research focuses on natural language processing and deep learning.

Research interests include:

• Machine Translation (MT)
• Multilingual and multi-domain adaptation for neural MT
• Quality Estimation
• Data Selection
• In-context Learning in LLMs for translation tasks
• Sentiment Analysis