Rush Tabesh

I’m Rush (Soroush) Tabesh, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), working under the supervision of Prof. Dan Alistarh in the Distributed Algorithms and Systems Laboratory.

Research Interests

My research focuses on:

• Efficient Deep Learning
• Quantization-Aware Training (QAT)
• Neural Network Compression
• Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)

Prior to joining ISTA, I completed my B.Sc. in Computer Science at Sharif University of Technology, where I worked on knowledge distillation and neural network pruning.

I am passionate about developing methods that make deep learning models more efficient and accessible, with a particular focus on quantization and parameter-efficient fine-tuning approaches for large models.