Seyyedeh Neda Derakhshani
Boston University,
Department of Computer Science,
Boston, MA 02215
Phone: (857) 991-9164
nedaa@bu.edu
http://cs-people.bu.edu/nedaa
Research
Interests
Data Mining and Analysis, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Recommender Systems
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science,
Department of Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, MA
(2013 - present)
Relevant Coursework: Data Mining, Advanced Topics in Data Mining, Algorithmic Techniques for
Large Problems, Advanced Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms and Computation, Econometrics.
B.Sc. of Information Technology Engineering,
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
(2008 - 2013)
Relevant Coursework: Intelligent Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems, Algorithm Design, Database Design, E-commerce.
GPA: 3.89/4
Honors and Research Fellowship
(2014 - Present)
Awards
Selected as Data Administrator for Boston University Massive Open Online Courses,
Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.
Ranked 1st , in cumulative GPA, Information Technology Engineering, class of 2012, University
of Tehran.
2012
F.O.E (Faculty of Engineering) award: Ranked 2nd , 1st and 3rd among all students of IT Engineering in first, second and third academic years respectively, University of Tehran (2009-2012)
Selected as the most qualified student for attending IAESTE internship program at AGH University
of Science and Technology, Poland.
2012
Ranked as top 0.07% of the National University Entrance Exam, 353rd among nearly 500,000
participants.
2008
Research
Experience
Questrom School of Business, Boston University
under supervision of Prof. Dellarocas
(Fall 2014 - Present)
· How Does Reputation Affect the Quality and Focus of User Contributions?
An Analysis of Online Q&A Communities.
Under Submission
· Study of Question Answerability in MOOC Discussion Forums.
· Understanding Sequence and Reply Relationships within Forum Conversations on Context of
MOOC.
· Study of How Video Productions Affect Student Engagement in MOOC Videos & How Different
Speeds of Watching Video Correlate with Student Results on Post-video Assessment Problems.
Rafik B. Hariri Institute, Boston University
under supervision of Prof. Goldberg
(Spring 2015 - Present)
· The Future of STEM Education.
Under Submission
An Analysis of How Students Benefit from MOOC-Supported Learning Communities.
Department of Computer Science, Boston University
under supervision of Prof. Terzi
· Modeling Boredom in Social Networks.
Spring 2014
Presented at BU Research Symposium
Seyyedeh Neda Derakhshani
under supervision of Prof. Betke
· Finding 2D and 3D Absolute Orientation in Biomedical Images.
AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
Programmer Intern
Fall 2014
Summer 2012
· Working in a Team to Develop a Simulation Tool for Modelling of Three-dimensional Stress
Distribution in Rocks.
Teaching
Experience
Teaching Assistant in the following courses:
Skills
Programming Languages:
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academic
projects
Data Management (Prof. Dellarocas)
Summer 2015
Introduction to Internet Technologies and Web Programming (Prof. Worst)
Fall 2013
Artificial Intelligence (Prof. Moradi, Prof.Mirian)
Spring 2012, Fall 2012
Database Design (Prof. Rahgozar, Prof. Shakeri)
Spring 2012, Fall 2011
Advanced Programming (Prof. Khosravi)
Spring 2012
Expert in Python, C/C++ , Java, Javascript
Familiar with Prolog, Perl
Web design and programming (ASP .NET, HTML, PHP, C#, CSS)
Database design and management (MySQL, MS SQL Server and MongoDB)
Tools (Stata, R, Weka, Matlab)
Predicting if two researchers have been coauthor in a paper, based on a snapshot of DBLP, using
Python and Weka, Under Kaggle Platform, Data Mining Course, Fall 2013
Developing automatic methods for Author Name Disambiguation, using Python and Weka, KDD
Cup 2013
Design and implementation of a Named Entity Recognizer using MEMM tagger, using Python,
Intelligent Systems Course, Spring 2012
Optical Character Recognition on a dataset of Persian digits, implementing and analyzing CCR
for classification and clustering methods: Bayesian classifier, K-NN, Multilayer perceptron,
K-means and Fuzzy clustering, using MATLAB, Intelligent Systems Course, Spring 2012
Design and implementation of a Decision Tree for Car Mechanics and Pruning it to avoid Overfitting, using Python, Intelligent Systems Course, Spring 2012
Design and implementation of an Intelligent Agent to solve Pacman maze, using Python, Artificial
Intelligence Course, Fall 2011
Design and implementation of a Guessing Game Agent, using Prolog, Artificial Intelligence Course,
Fall 2011
Design and implementation of Distributed Database, using Java, MySQL, Implementation of a
peer-to-peer, reliable and scalable database that uses MySQL in the core, Computer Networks Course,
Fall 2011
Design of a Chatting System, using C++, Design and Implementation of a multi-user, multithreaded client/server chat software with GUI, Advanced Programming Course, Spring 2009
Language
Skills
Volunteer
Works
Languages: Persian (native), English (fluent), Arabic (reading knowledge)
FSEN2011 Fundamentals of Software Eng. Conf. Organization team member
IPM, Tehran, Iran
Spring 2011
Computer Engineering students’ representative in students’ central committee
(2008-2010)
Technical Staff in 13th ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest, Tehran, Iran
Member of “F1” Journal Team (ACM Student Chapter Scientific Journal)
Dec. 2011
(2010-2011)