Gholamreza Haffari

BC Cancer Research Center Vancouver, Canada Email: reza.haffariATgmail.com

I am a computer scientist working on Statistical Machine Learning and its application to natural language and bioinformatics. Currently, I am a PostDoc with Sam Aparicio and Sohrab Shah in BCCRC (BC Cancer Research Center) working on Bioinformatics. Before that, I was a doctoral student in Computer Science at Simon Fraser University working with Anoop Sarkar in the NLP group.

I have accepted an Assistant Prof. position from the School of Information Technology in Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), and will join them from July 2011. I am looking for students! Please consider applying to our strong graduate program: Information for Prospective Students.

Professional Activities

Program Committee member for: EMNLP 2011, ACL 2011, ICML 2011, IJCAI 2011, EMNLP 2010, NIPS 2010, ACL 2010, ICML 2010, CoNLL 2010, NAACL-HLT 2009

Reviewer for: ICML 2008, ICML 2007, AAAI 2007, EMNLP 2007

Journal reviewing: ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Highlights

• Please consider submitting your work to the First Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties to be held at EMNLP 2011, July 31, Edinburgh.

• We have started a reading group on SMT in the Spring 2010; you are welcome to attend our weekly meetings.

• I have recently obtained my PhD from the School of Computing Sciences at Simon Fraser University under supervision of Prof. Anoop Sarkar. [ defense slides ][thesis]

• Check out my tutorial Machine Learning Approaches for Dealing with Limited Bilingual Data in Statistical Machine Translation which was presented in Machine Translation Summit XII , August 26th, Ottawa, Canada. [ slides ]

• I was awarded NSERC's Industerial R&D Fellowship (IRDF).

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada (2004-2009)
• M.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (2000-2002)
• B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (1995-2000)