Biography

I am a graduate student at the University of California at Irvine. I have the honor of being a part of the UCI Computational Vision Lab where I am advised by Deva Ramanan. My interests include computer vision, machine learning, AI, optimization, and cloud computing. Please find more about my academic activities here.

I recieved my BS in Mathematical Sciences from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2010. I had the opportunity to be advised by Mehrdad Shahshahani at IPM Computer Vision group from 2007 until 2010. I was also fortunate enough to work under the supervision of Amir Daneshgar. I have visited the  Computer Vision and Active Perception Laboratory (CVAP) at KTH University in 2008 where I worked under the supervision of Jan-Olof Eklundh. I have also collaborated with David Forsyth and Ali Farhadi on natural language image description in 2010.

 

What I like to share

I am the co-founder of the following two websites.

MaktabKhooneh (مکتب خونه)

Inspired by Khanacadmey, I decided to realize an old dream. I am proud to be a co-founder of Maktabkhooneh, which is created to provide high-quality education material to Persian-Farsi speaking students at any level. 
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Learn Data Analysis

Being enthusiastic about different aspects of data analysis, my friends and I started up LearnDataAnalysis website. In LDA, we aim to share news and ideas about data analysis research and industry.