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Education:

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Information Technology, Carleton University, Canada
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Canada
  • Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, Canada
  • Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical Engineering, Minor in Control Systems, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran


Past Positions:

  • Director of Data Science and Intelligent Systems, Myant Inc., Ottawa, Canada
  • Adjunct Professor, School of Information Technology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
  • Head of Machine Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction, GestureLogic Inc., Ottawa, Canada
  • Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant, Carleton University, Canada
  • Instructor, Carleton University, Canada
  • Co-founder and CEO, EP Inc., Iran
  • Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant, Isfahan University of Technology, Iran


Awards, Scholarships, and Grants:

  • Dean's Research Fund, 2018
  • NSERC Discovery, 2018
  • Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF), 2018
  • Next Big Thing Ottawa, The Best Ottawa Business Awards, Awarded to GestureLogic, 2014
  • Nominated for University & Senate Medals for Outstanding Graduate Work, Carleton University, 2014
  • Graduate Student Research Bursary, Carleton University, 2014
  • GSA Honor Award, Carleton University, 2013
  • NSERC Visiting Fellowship Meritorious Candidate, Canada, 2013
  • NSERC IRD Postdoctoral Fellowship Meritorious Candidate, Canada, 2013
  • Graduate Student Research Bursary, Carleton University, 2013
  • SCE Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, Carleton University, 2012
  • Departmental Scholarship for Ph.D. Studies, Carleton University, 2009 – 2013
  • Graduate Student Research Bursary, Carleton University, 2012
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), Canada, 2011 - 2012
  • Departmental Scholarship for M.A.Sc. Studies, Carleton University, 2007 – 2009
  • Distinguished National Student Entrepreneur, Iran, 2007


Service:

  • Vice Chair (Technical Programme), IEEE Kingston section, 2017-present
  • Member Standards Council of Canada (SCC) mirror committee on Wearable Electronic Devices and Technologies, 2017 - present
  • Member of the Institute for Data Science, Carleton University, 2016 - present
  • Member of the Graduate Student Services Committee, Carleton University, 2012 - 2014
  • Vice President and co-founder, Graduate Student Society of the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, 2011 - 2012


Editorial Team Member/Reviewer (Journals):

  • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
  • IEEE Transactions on Human Machine Systems
  • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 
  • IEEE Access
  • Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier)
  • Neural Computation and Applications (Springer)
  • IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
  • EMBS-IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)
  • Pattern Recognition Letters (Elsevier)
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Elsevier)
  • Electronics Letters (IET)
  • Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier)
  • Expert Systems With Applications (Elsevier)
  • Applied Mathematics and Computation (Elsevier)


Program Committee Member/Reviewer (Conferences):

  • IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing, 2018
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), 2018 
  • IEEE-EMBS Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2018 
  • 9th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI), 2017
  • 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), 2017
  • ACM CHI Play, 2017
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), 2017
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2017
  • IEEE Computing, 2017
  • IEEE Future Technologies Conf. (FTC), 2016
  • ACM Symposium on Applied Perception (SAP), 2016
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems Conf. (IntelliSys), 2016
  • 2nd Int. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems and Data Mining (FSDM), 2016 
  • Int. Symposium on Computer Vision and the Internet (VisionNet), 2014
  • Int. Workshop on Biomedical Imaging and Sensing (BIS) (co-sponsored by IEEE), 2014
  • Int. Workshop on Computer Vision and the Internet (co-sponsored by IEEE), 2014
  • IEEE Sym. on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA), 2013
  • IEEE Sym. on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA), 2012
  • Computer Graphics International (CGI), 2011
  • 14th IEEE Int. Multitopic Conf. (INMIC), 2011
  • Int. Conf. on Image Information Processing (ICIIP) (co-sponsored by IEEE), 2011
  • ACM Summer Computer Simulation Conf. (ACM/SCSC), 2010