CV

Education

  • 2021 - 2026
    PhD Student in Electrical Engineering
    University of Maryland, College Park, USA
    • Specialization: Communication and Signal Processing
    • GPA: 3.7/4.0
  • 2013 - 2015
    M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
    Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
    • Specialization: Communication Systems
    • GPA: 4.0/4.0
  • 2008 - 2013
    B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering
    University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
    • Specialization: Telecommunications
    • GPA: 3.5/4.0

Experience

  • 2023 - Current
    Research Assistant
    Intelligent Assistive Machines (IAM) Lab, University of Maryland
    • Supervised by Dr. Hernisa Kacorri.
    • Working on AI for Accessibility and Assistive Technologies.
    • Projects
      • Ground-truth data collection for older adults activity tracking. (Data analysis)
      • Personalized activity recognition for older adults using smartwatches. (Machine learning)
      • Understanding older adults' activities of interest. (HCI, Data analysis)
      • Undestanding older adults' preferences of modality for smartwatch interaction. (HCI, Co-desgin)
  • Summer 2022
    RTLS IoT Network Engineer
    Vicinia
    • Design and development of a wireless network for real-time location tracking of assets through two-layer edge architecture.
    • Impacts
      • 50% reduction in network coverage cost.
      • Lowered hardware and infrastructure requirements.
  • 2020 - 2021
    Data Analyst, Network Performance Engineerd
    MTN Irancell
    • Projects
      • Automation of network performance report generation.
      • Data analysis for network planning.
      • Network KPIs monitoring and reporting.
    • Technologies
      • Python, SQL, Tableau, Pandas, Hadoop, Spark
  • 2020 - 2021
    Senior Hardware Engineer
    Arshon Technology
    • Project
      • Designed and developed the hardware of an industrial IoT gateway at Arshon Technology.
    • Skills
      • Circuit and PCB Design (Altium Designer)
  • 2016 - 2020
    Head of Embedded Systems team
    Sarveen Technologies
    • Projects
      • SmartTag: Dairy cows activity tracking devices.
      • MilkMeter: An electronic non-mechanical milk yield measurement device.
      • E-nose: An electronic nose for detecting cows exhaled gases.
      • ForcePlate: A force plate for measuring cows' weight while walking
    • Skills
      • Team Management
      • Circuit and PCB Design (Altium Designer)
      • Embedded Programming (RTOS, C/C++)
      • Wireless IoT Protocols (BLE, Zigbee, LoRa, WiFi)
      • Signal Processing

Research Interests

  • AI for Accessibility and Assistive Technologies
    • Human-Computer Interaction
    • Older Adults
  • Signal Processing and Machine Learning
    • Deep Learning
    • Time Series Analysis
  • Embedded System
    • Internet of Things
    • Health monitoring devices
  • Distributed Systems
    • Federated Learning
    • Edge Computing