Omid Bakhshandeh is a Research Scientist at Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). He obtained his Ph.D. under James F. Allen in Conversational Interaction and Dialogue research group at the university of Rochester. His main research interest is the intersection of natural language understanding and machine learning with a special focus on learning meaning representation and common sense reasoning. He spent summer 2015 and summer 2016 at the IHMC and Adobe Research, respectively, working on machine reading and vision and language. Before the graduate school, as an undergrad researcher, his primary work was on multi-agent systems and small-size mobile robots where he was leading AI efforts at Mechatronics Research Lab.