Hamidreza Chitsaz
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lab for Computational Biology
School of
Computing Science
Simon Fraser University, Canada
A former member of UIUC Motion Strategy Laboratory under supervision of Prof. Steven M. LaValle
Address:
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC Canada V5A-1S6
Phone: (778) 782-7040
Email:
hrc4@sfu.ca
Academics
Education Background
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Aug 2001 - Jan 2008
M.S. in Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1996 - 2001
B.Sc. in Mathematics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1996 - 2001
Research Interests
RNA secondary and tertiary structure prediction
RNA-RNA and RNA-Protein interaction prediction
RNA folding and RNA-RNA interaction kinetics
Metabolic modeling and control
Optimal control and geodesics for mobile robots
Motion planning for nonholonomic robots
Software
piRNA: RNA-RNA interaction partition function, probability, equilibrium concentration, and melting temperature
biRNA: RNA-RNA binding sites prediction (currently available upon request)
CV
Publications
2009
biRNA: Fast RNA-RNA Binding Sites Prediction
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Rolf Backofen, S. Cenk Sahinalp
Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), 2009
Supplementary materialA Partition Function Algorithm for Interacting Nucleic Acid Strands
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Raheleh Salari, S. Cenk Sahinalp, Rolf Backofen
Bioinformatics 25(12): i365-i373; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp212
Also, 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology ISMB/ECCB 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
Supplementary materialMinimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Mobile Robots
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Devin J. Balkcom, Matthew T. Mason
International Journal of Robotics Research 28(1): 66-80, 20092008
Exact Pareto-Optimal Coordination of Two Translating Polygonal Robots on a Cyclic Roadmap
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Jason M. O'Kane
Proceedings of 20th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry (CCCG), 2008Generalizing the Dubins and Reeds-Shepp cars: fastest paths for bounded-velocity mobile robots
Andrei Furtuna, Devin J. Balkcom, Hamidreza Chitsaz, Paritosh Kavathekar
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2008Geodesic Problems for Mobile Robots
Hamidreza Chitsaz
PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 20082007
Time-optimal Paths for a Dubins Airplane
Hamidreza Chitsaz and Steven M. LaValle
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2007Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Mobile Robots Among Piecewise Smooth Obstacles
Hamidreza Chitsaz and Steven M. LaValle
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 20072006
An Explicit Characterization of Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drives
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Devin J. Balkcom, Matthew T. Mason
Proceedings of 12th IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR), 2006Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Mobile Robots
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Devin J. Balkcom, Matthew T. Mason
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2006 [Slides]2004
Exact Pareto-Optimal Coordination of Two Translating Polygonal Robots on an Acyclic Roadmap
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Jason M. O'Kane, Steven M. LaValle
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2004 [Slides]2002
A Fast Vision System for Middle Size Robots in RoboCup
M. Jamzad, B. S. Sadjad, V. S. Mirrokni, M. Kazemi, H. Chitsaz, A. Heydarnoori, M. T. Hajiaghai, E. Chiniforooshan
Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2377, pp 71-80, 2002
This paper is awarded the best Engineering Challenge Award in RoboCup 2001Basic Requirements for a Teamwork in Middle Size RoboCup
Mansour Jamzad, Hamid Reza Chitsaz, Amirali Foroughnassirai, Reza Ghorbani, Moslem Kazemi, V. S. Mirrokni, B. S. Sadjad
RoboCup 2001: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2377, pp 621-626, 2002Sharif CESR Small Size Robocup Team
Mohammad Taghi Manzuri, Hamid Reza Chitsaz, Reza Ghorbani, Pooya Karimian, Alireza Mirazi, Mehran Motamed, Roozbeh Mottaghi, Payam Sabzmeydani
RoboCup 2001: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2377, pp 595-598, 2002RoboCup2001: The Fifth Robotic Soccer World Championships
Manuela M. Veloso, Tucker R. Balch, Peter Stone, Hiroaki Kitano, Fuminori Yamasaki, Ken Endo, Minoru Asada, Mansour Jamzad, B. S. Sadjad, V. S. Mirrokni, Moslem Kazemi, Hamid Reza Chitsaz, A. Heydarnoori, Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi, Ehsan Chiniforooshan
AI Magazine Vol. 23(1), American Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp 55-68, 20022001
Design and Implementation of A Controller for Small Size Soccer Player Robot (in Farsi)
Hamid Reza Chitsaz
BS Project, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Tech, 2001A Goalkeeper for Middle Size RoboCup
M. Jamzad, A. Foroughnassiraei, T.Hadji Aghai, V.S.Mirrokni, R. Ghorbani, A. Heydar Noori, M. Kazemi, H. Chitsaz, F. Mobasser, M. Ebraahimi Moghaddam, M. Gudarzi, N. Ghaffarzadegan
RoboCup2000: Robot Soccer World Cup IV. Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2019, pp 583-586, Springer, 20012000
ARVAND: A Soccer Player Robot
M. Jamzad, A. Foroughnassiraei, E. Chiniforooshan, R. Ghorbani, M. Kazemi, H. Chitsaz, F. Mobasser, and S.B. Sadjad
AI Magazine, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp 47-51, Fall 2000Middle Sized Soccer Robots: ARVAND
M. Jamzad, A. Foroughnassiraei, E. Chiniforooshan, R. Ghorbani, M. Kazemi, H. Chitsaz, F. Mobasser, and S.B. Sadjad
RoboCup99: Robot Soccer World Cup III. Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1856, pp 61-73, Springer, 2000Design and Construction of a Soccer Player Robot ARVAND
M. Jamzad, A. Foroughnassiraei, E. Chiniforooshan, R. Ghorbani, M. Kazemi, H. Chitsaz, F. Mobasser, and S.B. Sadjad
RoboCup99: Robot Soccer World Cup III. Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 1856, pp 745-749, Springer, 2000
Personal
SharifCE Team in RoboCup 1999, 2000, and 2001
SharifCE, a robotics research team at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, got established in 1997 in the Computer Engineering Department of S.U.T. by Dr. Mansour Jamzad as the leader and a group of young ambitious robot-loving undergrad and grad students. I was a SharifCE co-founding member from its beginning in 1997 to summer 2001. SharifCE participated in RoboCup international competitions and won the world championship in Middle Size Soccer Robot League in 1999 Sweden, Europe championship in Europe RoboCup 2000 Netherlands, and the world third place in 2000 Australia. In 2001, SharifCE was awarded the Best Engineering Challenge Award for its contribution to machine vision in robot soccer.
Here is a movie of our robots (and a little bit ourselves) in RoboCup 1999.
