Education

  • PhD, Computer Science,(2016-present), University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
  • Master of Science, Computer Engineering, (2008-2011), Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, Thesis title: Fusing face and gait biometrics for Video-based human identification (Abstract) .
  • Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering, (2003-2008), Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, Thesis title: Population Variation in Genetic programming (Abstract) .

Experience

  • Computer Vision Intern at BCG Digital Ventures, Manhattan Beach, California, USA (May 2019 - Aug 2019)
  • Computer Vision Programmer/Analyst and Team Leader at Son Company, Tehran, Iran (Apr 2014 - Sept 2015)
  • AI/Computer Vision Programmer/Analyst at Favaran Company, Tehran, Iran (Apr 2013 - Mar 2014)

Teaching Assistant

  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning at University of South Florida. (Spring 2018, Spring 2019)
  • Object Oriented Design at University of South Florida. (Fall 2016)
  • Introduction to Discrete Structures at University of South Florida. (Spring 2016)
  • Digital Image Processing at Amirkabir University of Technology. (2010)

Main Graduate Courses

  • Introduction to Robotics
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • Parallel and Distributed Processing
  • Social Media Mining
  • Statistical Pattern Recognition
  • Computer Vision
  • Digital Image Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Statistical Machine Translation
  • Introduction to Algorithms
  • Seminar in Computer Vision ( http://myweb.usf.edu/~saakur/ComputerVision/ComputerVision_Fall17/ ).