Sadjad
Asghari-Esfeden
RESUME
Education
Northeastern University
2013 - present
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Sep. 2013 – May 2017 (Expected).
Supervisor: Prof. Octavia Camps.
University of Tehran
2008 - 2013
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
B.S. in Computer Engineering, Sep. 2008 – Aug. 2013.
High School Diploma and Pre-University Course
2004 - 2008
Mathematics and Physics, Ghaen, Iran.
Diploma GPA: 19.62/20.00, Pre-University GPA: 19.71/20.00
Selected Honors and Awards
• Ranked among top 10% students of Computer Engineering in the school of ECE, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
• Qualified for RoboCup Dutch Open 2012, Soccer 2D Simulation League, April 2012, Eind-hoven, Netherlands.
• Ranked 2 nd in University of Tehran RoboCup Competition, Soccer 2D Simulation League, Spring 2011, Tehran, Iran.
• ACM Certificate for presentation on “Quantum Computing” in the First Seminar of “Models of Computation and Computational Models”, Winter 2011, Tehran, Iran.
• Received Faculty of Engineering fellowship award as an exceptionally talented student in University of Tehran, 2008.
• Ranked 74th among more than 100,000 applicants in the nationwide university entrance exam for undergraduate students, 2008.
• Best performance in state-wide high-school student’s laboratorial Physics competitions, 2007.
• Ranked 1 st in Khayyami high school (school of talented students) in all years of high school, Ghaen, Iran.
• Titled Exceptional Talent Student at the South Khorasan Province, 2006.
• Semifinalist in the nationwide Physics and Informatics Olympiad examinations, 2006.
2010 - present
2010 - present
Research and Academic Activities and Experiences
Synergetic Media Learning (SMILE) Lab.
Department of ECE, Northeastern University, Boston, MA., USA.
Research Assistant, Supervisor: Dr. Yun (Raymond) Fu.
Sep. 2013 - Dec. 2014.
Hoyos Labs
Cambridge Innovation Center, Cambridge, MA., USA.
Research and Development Intern.
Summer 2014
Computational Models of Visual Cortex (CMVC.) Group, BMI and Neuroscience Laboratories, School of Cognitive Sciences (SCS.)
Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM.), Tehran, Iran.
Training and Research Assistant, Supervisor: Dr. Reza Ebrahimpour.
• Biologically Inspired Universal Dictionary of Visual Features for Object Recognition (Thesis Project), June 2012 – Present.
Social Networks Laboratory
School of ECE., University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Training and Research Assistant – Supervisor: Dr. Masoud Asadpour.
• Mining Social Network of Persian Blogosphere, Sep. 2011 – Jan. 2012
Internship – Supervisor: Dr. Masoud Asadpour.
• Peyvandha.ir, Aug. 2011 – Sep. 2011
• Developing a Facebook Calendar Application, June 2011 – Aug. 2011
Research Interests
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
Computational Vision Neuroscience
Social Media Analysis
Human Computer Interaction
Data Mining
Professional Memberships
• ISMVIP (Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing) Sep. 2012 – Present
• ISEE (Iran Society of Engineering Education) and TA team of FOE (Faculty of Engineering), University of Tehran, June 2012 – Present
• ACM Student Chapter, School of ECE, University of Tehran Feb. 2011 – Aug. 2013
Publications
• Papers: (Google Scholar)
S. Asghari-Esfeden, M. Soleymani, Y. Fu, “Causality Analysis for Emotion Detection using EEG Signals,” (In preparation).
M. Soleymani, S. Asghari-Esfeden, Y. Fu, M. Pantic, “Inter-modality interaction between EEG signals and facial expressions for continuous valence detection,” (Submitted).
M. Soleymani, S. Asghari-Esfeden, M. Pantic, Y. Fu, “Continuous Emotion Detection Using EEG Signals and Facial Expressions,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2014 (Oral presentation).
Professional
Services
• Reviewer:
Information Fusion
Internation Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
International Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos (ICPR-FFER)
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (T-NNLS)
Neurocomputing (NEUCOM)
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
Teaching Experiences
Teaching Assistant, University of Tehran
• Human Computer Interaction Spring 2013
• Multi-Agent Systems Course Fall 2012
• Probability and Statistics for Engineering Course Chief Teaching Assistant: Spring, Fall, 2011, Spring 2012
• Theory of Formal Languages and Automata Course Spring 2011, Chief Teaching Assistant: Fall 2011, Spring, Fall 2012, Spring 2013
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms Course Spring 2012
• Technical and Scientific Writing Course Fall 2012
• Computer Workshop Courset Summer 2011
Private C++ tutoring 2010
Tutor of Mathematics and Physics for high school students 2008 – 2010
Leadership Experiences
• President of Iranian Student Association of Northeatern University (ISAN), Sep. 2014 – Present.
• Leader of the 2 nd Seminar of “Models of Computation and Computational Models”, Tehran, Iran. Nov. 2012
• Organizer (secretary) of ECE Representative Council, Representative of Computer Engineering students in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Sep. 2010 – Nov.2011
Skills
Applications: LATEX, VIM, Microsoft ce, Microsoft Visual Studio, EndNote, SPSS, Dreamweaver,
Adobe Photoshop.
• HDL (Hardware Description Language): Verilog, VHDL.
• Programming Tools and Languages: iOS and Android Programming, C, C++, C#, Java, Python, OpenCV, OpenGL, Prolog,
YACC, Assembly, JQuery, HTML, PHP, MYSQL, JavaScript, Ajax, ASP.NET, J2EE, familiar
with GPU.
• Simulating and Designing Tools: MATLAB, SPSS Clementine, Gephi, Pspice, Modelsim, Quartus,
Proteus, CodeVision AVR, SmartDraw, Edraw.
• Operating Systems: Linux, Dos, Windows, Mac.
Languages
Persian (Native)
English (Fluent)
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY
• Philosophical Studies, Logic, Mathematics, and Physics,
• Playing Guitar, Persian Poetry, Iranian Traditional Music
• Traveling!