Curriculum Vitae


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Education Ph.D. 2007-present (Machine Learning)
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Department of Computer Science
(Overall GPA A+ 4.33/4.00) Ranked 1s
Thesis title: "Using Directed Models for Statistical Relational Learning". Supervisor: Dr Oliver Schulte

M.Sc. 2005-2007 (Game Theory)
Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
(GPA 18.5/20) Ranked 2nd
Thesis title: "Trading Agent Competition:A game theoretic approach". Supervisor: Dr Ebrahim Shiri

B.Sc 2001-2005 (Computer Science)
Shahid Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Teaching
Experience 		Instructor position at Simon Fraser University

Summer 2012: Introduction to Programming
Full instructor responsibilities to teach a class of 200 students with the help of three full time teaching assistants

Spring 2012: Database Systems I
Full instructor responsibilities to teach a class of 70 students with the help of one full time teaching assistant. Relational algebra, SQL, and semi structured data are covered in details

Spring 2011: Artificial Intelligence
Full instructor responsibilities to teach a class of 80 students with the help of one full time teaching assistant. Uninformed and informed searches, first order logic, and probabilistic methods like Bayesian networks are covered in details

Spring 2010: Artificial Intelligence
Full instructor responsibilities to teach a class of 60 students with the help of one full time teaching assistant. Uninformed and informed searches, first order logic, and probabilistic methods like Bayesian networks are covered in details

Teaching Assistant position at Simon Fraser University
Fall 2011: Socio-technological Issues of Computing Science
Summer 2010: Advanced Game Theory
Spring 2009: Advanced Data Structure
Fall 2009: Symbolic Computing
Spring 2008: Data Structure
Fall 2008: Logic Design

Teaching Assistant position at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran
Spring 2005: Artificial Intelligence

Professional
Experience 		Engage Grant withFusionPipe Inc., Vancouver, Canada, 2011

I have received an Engage grant from NSERC to collaborate with FusionPipe inc. The primary goal is to implement a software to perform disaster recovery for virtual machines using cloud computing. The project is implemented in python and will be contributed to the openstack project which is an open source software for building private and public clouds.

Engage Grant with INETCO Inc., Vancouver, Canada, 2011

I have received an Engage grant from NSERC to collaborate with INETCO inc. to work on fast inference models for stream data. The target implementations require innovative machine learning techniques to infer the association of the network messages and meet other specific constraints such as the high rates of transaction; performing inference over millions of online records in seconds.

Research Assistant of Dr. Oliver Schulte, Vancouver, Canada, 2007-present

which is an open source software developed at Carnegie Mellon University which provides sophisticated search methods for learning directed causal and statistical models on propositional data. We have extended the software to learn directed models on relational data. I have supervised a team of six very skilled coders for this project. Three long papers on this work have been published in the premium journal of Machine Learning.

Researcher at International Center of Science , Kerman, Iran 2004-2005
To work on game theoretic approach on solving NP problems

Programmer in Kerman Systems , Kerman, Iran 2002-2003
To work on game theoretic approach on solving NP problems

Instructor at Kish Air Institute of English, Kerman, Iran 2001-2002
To work on game theoretic approach on solving NP problems

Awards Ebco/Eppich Scholarships, 2011 -- $700

Graduate fellowship (Ph.D.) funding award, 2011 --- $6250
President's Ph.D. Research Stipend (PRS) award 2010 -- $6250
Graduate fellowship (Ph.D.) funding award, 2009 --- $6250
Modelling of Complex Social Systems scholarship, 2009 --- $8000
Ebco/Eppich Scholarships, 2008 -- $700

Honors Ranked 1st among Computer Science Students during Ph.D.

Simon Fraser University with GPA of 4.33/4 in 2012

Ranked 2nd among Computer Science Students during Master's degree.
Amirkabir University of Technology with GPA 18.5/20 in 2006

Ranked 2nd among Computer Science Students during g Bachelor's degree.
Shahid Bahonar University in 2005

Received Best programmer with new idease.
In Kerman System in 2003

Ranked 1st team in ACM Programming Contest in Computer Science students.
In Shahid Bahonar University 2003

Volunteer
Experience 		Elected as President of Computer Science Graduate Association of Students in Simon Fraser University, 2008-2010.

The main caucus for over 200 Computer Science graduate students

Elected as vice president of Computer Science Department in graduate issue committee at Simon Fraser University, 2008-2009.
This committee consists of one graduate student from each department.

Elected as the vice presenter of Computer Science Department in graduate issue committee in Simon Fraser University, 2007.
The main caucus for over 200 Computer Science graduate students

Elected as Vice President of Scientific Association in Amirkabir University, 2006.
The main caucus for over 400 Computer Science students

Elected as a member of Scientific Association in Shahid Bahonar University, 2003.
The main caucus for over 300 Computer Science students

Editor of the journal of Computer Science in Shahid Bahonar university, 2003.
Worked in hospitals after the tragic earth quake of Bam-Iran for three weeks, 2003.

Languages Fluent in English

Native in Farsi

Computer
skills 		programming

Python, C++, Java

Web
HTML

Database
MySQL, MS SQL

LaTeX