Education:

 

Graduated with BSc. degree of Computer Engineering, MSc. degree of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and PhD in Computer Vision from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

 

 

Honors & Awards: 

  

·     PhD Scholarship: from the University of Aucklnad

 

·     Best Paper Award: for my publication at IEEE International Conference of SENSORCOMM07, 2007.

 

·     Akira Nakamura Award 2011 and 2014: winner of the award and grant for being the lead author of two publications in CVPR 2014 and CAIP 2011, as top conferences in my field.

 

·     Marsden Fund 2012: in final round of the most competivie national research fund, provided by the Royal Society of New Zealand.

 

·     Spark $100,000 Qualifiers Award 2011: Winner of the qualifiers challenge and one of the finalists of $100K grand prize, based on my PhD research proposal. Spark is New Zealand premier academic to business competition, organized by the University of Auckland.

 

·     Leadership: team leader and founder of IntelliEye project in a group of 6 PhD and Master students.

 

·     Spark Ideas Challenge Award: winner of the prize, and the selected winner by UniServices. 

 

·     Honorific Presentation: the only selected PhD student from the University of Auckland to present a live performance of my PhD project to China Minister of Science & Technology during his official visit from the University of Auckland along with 13 members delegation, as well as the University of Auckland Vice Chancellor, Dean of Science, Dean of Engineering, and Accompanying board, 28 March 2011.

 

·     Teacher of the Year: at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Qazvin University, 2009.

 

·     Ranked 7th: in nationwide University entrance exam for Master degree, 2001.

 

 

 

Teaching Experience:

 

Teaching assistant and tutor at Department of Computer Science:

 

- CompSci 775 (Advanced Multimedia Imaging)

- CompSci 210 (Computer systems)

 

 

 

Reviewer of : 

 

- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

- MVA (J. Machine Vision and Applications)

- ICPR (International Conference on Pattern Recognition)

- ACCV (Asian Conference on Computer Vision)

- VISAAP (International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications)