Tahir Miriyev holds a Bachelor’s degree in Pure Mathematics from Middle East Technical University (Turkey), where he was awarded the BP Merit-Based Scholarship, and a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Verona (Italy), also with a merit-based scholarship. He conducted research internships at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel). He is currently pursuing a PhD in Machine Learning for Digital Health at the Hasso Plattner Institute (Germany), under the supervision of Prof. Christoph Lippert. His research focuses on developing medical vision-language foundation models and open-vocabulary medical semantic segmentation methods