Curriculum Vitae
(Last Update: May 2021)
Sara Mahdi
Birth:
Email:
Tel:
Websites:
November 22, 1987, Tehran, Iran.
sara.mahdi.ai@gmail.com
sara.mahdi@qiau.ac.ir
09125754464
www.SaraMahdi.ir
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Research Gate profile
EDUCATION
Sep 2011
-May 2015
Sep 2006
-Sep 2010
M.S. Degree
Computer engineering (Artificial Intelligence), Department of Electrical,
Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Qazvin International Azad University,
Ghazvin, Iran.
GPA:
A
Thesis title: Improved Recognition of Emotional States from Physiological Signals
Based on Fuzzy Classification
Supervisor: Prof. Mohammad Bagher Menhaj (Faculty at Amirkabir University of
Technology)
B.S. Degree
Computer Engineering (Software), Computer Department, Islamic Azad
University of Parand, Parand, Tehran, Iran.
GPA:
Thesis title:
Supervisor:
A
Real-Time Face Recognition by CMUcam Using Main-Vector Method
Prof. Saeed Shiry Ghidary (Faculty at Staffordshire University)
HONORS & AWARDS
2010
2st Place, Humanoid Robot League, 12th Khwarizmi Youth Award (KYA) &
International AUTCUP 2010 Robotics Competitions, Tehran, Iran. (Awarded by
Minister of Higher Education & Chancellor of Amirkabir University of Technology)
2010
3rd Place, Humanoid Robot League, IranOpen 2010 International RoboCup
Competitions & Symposium, Tehran, Iran.
2009
3rd Place, Humanoid Robot League, 11th Khwarizmi Youth Award (KYA) Robotics
Competitions, Tehran, Iran.
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Works EXPERIENCE
Mar 2009-Dec 2009 Internship, during the B.S. degree, Informatics Council, Management and
Planning Organization of Iran, Iranian Government, Tehran, Iran.
Mar 2009-Feb 2010 Expert of Computer Software and Hardware, Research Institute of
Petroleum Industry, Tehran, Iran.
2014-2015
CRM Management, Easy World Technology LLC Company, Tehran, Iran,
homepage: http://www.eworldco.ir
2007-2008
Student coworker at Education Office, Department of Computer and
Information Technology, Islamic Azad University of Parand, Parand, Iran.
2015-2016
Expert Hardware and Software, Tejarat Bank Consulting Engineers Company
(TCE), Tehran, Iran, homepage: http://www.tejaratce.ir
2016-2017
Expert web design, Iranian Consortium of National Content , Tehran, Iran,
homepage: http://www.icnc.ir
2017
Expert web design, Artiman Petro Energy Company , Tehran, Iran,& Dubai
homepage: http://www.apeoil.co
2018
Expert web design, Moradikala Company , Tehran, Iran,& Dubai homepage:
http://www.moradikala.com
2019
Expert web design, YummySurprise Company , Tehran, Iran,& Dubai homepage:
http://www.yummysurprise.ir
2018-2020
Chief Technology Offer(CTO), Marmaronyx Company, Tehran, Iran, homepage:
http://www.marmaronyx.ir
2017-2020
Expert of Computer Software, Sama Control Company , Tehran, Iran,
homepage: http://www.samacontrol.com
2020-2021
Expert web design, Mahdavi Physiotherapy Clinic , Tehran, Iran, homepage:
http://www.MahdaviClinic.ir
2020-2021
Expert web design,
http://www.Mahda.co
Mahda
company
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Tehran,
Iran,
homepage:
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Jan 2012-present
Research Assistant, at Automation and Computational intelligence Lab ,
Electrical Eng. Dep., Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran.
2014
Experimental Project: Improvement of the emotional states recognition from
physiological signals based on fuzzy classification at Automation and
Computational intelligence Lab and Electrical Machines & Transformer
Research Laboratory (EMTRL), Electrical Eng. Dep., Amirkabir University of
Technology, Tehran.
2009-2010
Research Project at Robotic Lab, Member of Robotics Team & Effective
Participation in the project “Improving the performance of humanoid robots”
for participation in Khwarizmi Robotics Competitions, Department of Computer
and Information Technology, Islamic Azad University of Parand, Parand, Iran.
2009-2010
Research Project at Robotic Lab, Member of Robotics Team & Effective
Participation in the project “Improving the performance of humanoid robots”
for participation in Iran Open Robotics Competitions, Department of Computer
and Information Technology, Islamic Azad University of Parand, Parand, Iran.
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2012
Lecturer at Engineering Department, Islamic Azad of Shal, Ghazvin, Iran; Teaching the
Undergraduate course: “Expert Systems”.
Spring 2012
Lecturer at Engineering Department, Islamic Azad of Shal, Ghazvin, Iran; Teaching the
Undergraduate course: “Operating System”.
Spring 2012
Lecturer at Engineering Department, Islamic Azad of Shal, Ghazvin, Iran; Teaching the
Undergraduate course: “Computer Networks”.
Spring 2012
Lecturer at Engineering Department, Islamic Azad of Shal, Ghazvin, Iran; Teaching the
Undergraduate course: “Algorithm Design”.
Spring 2012
Lecturer at Engineering Department, Islamic Azad of Shal, Ghazvin, Iran; Teaching the
Undergraduate course: “Computer Basics and Programming (Pascal language)”.
Spring 2012
Lecturer at Engineering Department, Islamic Azad of Shal, Ghazvin, Iran; Teaching the
Undergraduate course: “Advanced Programming (C language)”.
Spring 2012
Lecturer at Engineering Department, Islamic Azad of Shal, Ghazvin, Iran; Teaching the
Undergraduate course: “Programming (Assembly language)”.
Fall 2012
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of Parand,
Parand, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Undergraduate course: “Programming
(Assembly language)”.
Fall 2012
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of Parand,
Parand, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Undergraduate course: “Programming
(Assembly language)”.
Fall 2012
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of Parand,
Parand, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Undergraduate course: “Presentation Methods”.
Fall 2012
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of Parand,
Parand, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Undergraduate course: “Decomposition and
Analysis of Systems”.
Spring 2013
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of Parand,
Parand, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Lab course: “Graphic Software Lab (Microsoft
Visio)”.
Spring 2013
Lecturer at Engineering Department, Islamic Azad of Parand, Parand, Tehran, Iran;
Teaching the Lab course: “Computer Basics and Programming (C language)”.
2014-2015
Teaching Piano, Elementary level.
2017-2018
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of
Islamshahr, Islamshahr, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Undergraduate course:
“Advanced Programming (C language)”.
2017-2018
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of
Islamshahr, Islamshahr, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Undergraduate course:
“Computer Basics and Programming (Pascal language)”.
2017-2018
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of
Islamshahr, Islamshahr, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Undergraduate course: “MCSD
Course”.
2017-2018
Lecturer at Iran High school, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Undergraduate course:
“Python Course”.
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2018-2019
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of
Islamshahr, Islamshahr, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Undergraduate course:
“Advanced Programming1 (C++ language)”.
2018-2019
Lecturer at Computer and information Technolgy Department, Islamic Azad of
Islamshahr, Islamshahr, Tehran, Iran; Teaching the Lab course: “Computer Basics
and Programming (C++ language)”.
INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-present
Student Member, IEEE.
PUBLICATIONS
Journal Papers
[J1]
S. Mahdi, M. B. Menhaj and R. Azimi, ‘A Modified Fuzzy Support Vector Machine
Classification-based Approach for Emotional Recognition Using Physiological Signals’, to
be submitted for AUT Journal of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 2021.
Conference Papers
[C1] S. Mahdi, A. Mahdavi Hormat, M. B. Menhaj and Behzad Farzanegan, ‘Improved BOW based
on sparse coding and SURF by using fuzzy SVM for face recognition’, in the 4th International
conference on electrical, computer, mechanical and mechatronics engineering (ICE 2016),
Dubai, UAE, 2016.
[C2]
S. Mahdi, M. B. Menhaj, ‘Face recognition based on sparse coding by using SVM
classifier’, in Proc. 4th International conference on Control, Instrumentation and Automation
(ICCIA 2016), Qazvin Islamic Azad university, Iran, 2016.
[C3] S. Mahdi, M. B. Menhaj, ‘Improving classification of emotional states based on EEG and
peripheral signals by evolutionary algorithms method’, in Proc. 4th Iranian Joint Congress on
Fuzzy and Intelligen system, Zahedan, Iran, 2015.
[C4] S. Mahdi, M. B. Menhaj, A. Mahdavi Hormat, ‘A New Feature Extraction based on Advanced PCA
for Real Time Face Recognition’, in Proc. 13th Iranian Conference on Fuzzy Systems (IFSC 2013),
Qazvin, Iran, pp. 1-7 (indexed by IEEE Explore).
[C5] S. Mahdi, K. Faez, A. Sajeddin, ‘A Neural Based Real-Time Face Recognition Method Using
CMUCAM’, in Proc. Iranian Data Mining Conference 2011, Amirkabir University of Technology,
Tehran, Iran.
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PATENTS
[P1] S. Mahdi, M. B. Menhaj, ‘Micro-Based Implementation of Emotional States Recognition’, to be
prepared for Iranian patent, 2021.
FIELDS OF INTERESTS
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Pattern recognition, Machine Learning , Machine Vision, Computer Network
Artificial intelligence, Phyton
Designing site
Humanoid Robotics, Tele-robot, Electronic Circuits
LANGUAGES
v Persian (Native)
v English (Speaking: Fluent, Listening: Fluent, Reading: Fluent, Writing: Fluent)
COMPUTER SKILL
v CompTIA Course ( Advancing the Global IT Industry): Network+
v General: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Visio, Access, PowerPoint, FrontPage), Operating
Systems (windows, Macintosh), Photoshop
v Programming Language: C, C#.Net, Assembly, Java SE, Python.
v Engineering Software: Matlab/Simulink, Robotis. Co. humanoid robot software, Microsoft
CRM, MySQL, Network+
v MCSD
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Course :
Microsoft .NET Fundamentals
Software Development Fundamentals
Web Development Fundamentals
HTML5 Application Development Fundamentals
Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
Developing ASP.NET MVC 5 Web Applications
HOBBIES
v Playing piano and guitar, Picnic, mountain climbing, swimming, hiking, gardening, literature,
music, museums, movies.
REFERENCES
Dr. Mohammad Bagher Menhaj (My M.S. Thesis Supervisor)
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology,
Tehran, Iran; also, engineering department, Qazvin International Azad University, Qazvin,
Iran.
B.S & M.S.: ; Ph.D.: .
Member, IEEE; founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Amirkabir
University of Technology;
Email: menhaj@aut.ac.ir , homepage: http://ele.aut.ac.ir/~menhaj/
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Dr. Saeed Shiry (My B.S. Thesis Supervisor)
Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Staffordshire University, in Stoke-onTrent, England, UK ; Also, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran; and also,
engineering department, Islamic Azad University of Parand, Tehran, Iran.
B.S & M.S.: Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran; Ph.D.: Kobe University, Kobe, Japan.
Member, IEEE; Robotic center, Amirkabir University of Technology, Staffordshire University.
Email: saeed.shiryghidary@staffs.ac.uk , homepage: http://ceit.aut.ac.ir/~shiry/ ,
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saeed-shiry-ghidary-bb5b29148/
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