About Me

Education

  • Graduate in Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Now.
  • M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology.
  • B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Azad University - South Tehran.
  • A.Sc. in Computer Software, Shahid Chamran University.

Appointments

  • Course Manager and Grader, University of Colorado Boulder, August 2021 - Now.
  • Founder, Retail and IT Manager, Spectrum Gems LLC, October 2018 - Now.
  • R&D Robotics Engineer, Medtronic, September 2021 - December 2021.
  • Retail Manager, K&G Petroleum, December 2017 - April 2021.
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Colorado State University, May 2015 - December 2016.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Colorado State University, August 2014 - May 2015.
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Wayne State University, May 2014 - August 2014.
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Wayne State University, August 2013 - April 2014.
  • Instructor, Azad University, September 2006 - February 2013.
  • Developer and IT Manager, IRISA Company, June 2004 - August 2004.

Professional Activities

Organizer
  • Founder of Colorado State University’s RoboCup team, October 2015 - December 2016.
Reviewer
Member
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee in Algorithms for Planning and Control of Robot Motion, 2007 - 2017.
  • Sharif University of Technology’s RoboCup team, July 2005 - June 2006.

Honors and Awards

  • Graduate Assistantship, Colorado State University, August 2014 - December 2016.
  • Graduate Assistantship, Wayne State University, August 2013 - August 2014.
  • Rumble Fellowship, Wayne State University, January 2013 - May 2013.
  • Selected as National Elite, Iran's National Institute of Elites, February 2010.
  • Selected as Brilliant Talent, Sharif University of Technology, February 2007.
  • Ranked 1st among Graduated M.Sc. Students in Computer Engineering (Computer Architecture minor), Sharif University of Technology, February 2007.
  • Ranked 1st among Graduated B.Sc. Students in Computer Engineering (all minors), Azad University - South Tehran, February 2004.
  • Ranked 1st among Graduated A.Sc. Students in Computer Software, Shahid Chamran University, February 2002.

Travel Awards

  • Travel grant from Colorado State University to organize RLP 2016 at RSS 2016, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • Travel grant from Colorado State University to attend and present at IEEE CDC 2014, Los Angeles, California.
  • Travel grant from Wayne State University to attend RECOMB 2014, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

News

  • Paper accepted at CoRL 2017!
    Our novel methodology, called PVA, which is a manifold learning approach for nonlinear dimensionality reduction and data modeling got accepted in the 2017 Annual Conference on Robot Learning as a full-length talk (acceptance rate for full-length talk papers was 10.59%). PVA is expected to make a significant breakthrough in various applications, such as robotics and etc.