Summary
Dedicated and results-oriented PhD student at Kansas State University with a strong background in AI and software development. Passionate about contributing to advancements in formal verification, RL, trustworthy AI, and robotics. Eager to apply research expertise and technical skills in a Teaching or Research Assistant role.
Education
PHD STUDENT, COMPUTER SCIENCE
K-State (Kansas State University)
Kansas, USA | Jan, 2025 - Present
M.SC., ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS
University of Isfahan
Isfahan, Iran | 2015 - 2018
Thesis: Structured Learning in Markov Random Field for Efficient Inference with Submodular Relaxation Technique.
- Developed submodular relaxation (SMR) inference for Associative Hierarchical Random Fields (AHRF) using convex optimization methods for image semantic segmentation.
B.SC., SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Sajad University of Technology
Mashhad, Iran | 2009 - 2013
Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Car Tracking Software.
- Implemented Lucas-Kanade method for optical flow estimation and vehicle tracking.
Publications
Authorship Attribution in Historical and Literary Texts by A Deep Learning Classifier
Reisi, E., Mahboob Farimani, H. (2020). Journal of Applied Intelligent Systems and Information Sciences, 1(2), 118-127.
Formal Modeling and Verification of Publisher-Subscriber Paradigm in ROS (In progress)
Work Experience
GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT (GRA)
Kansas State University
Kansas, USA | Spring 2025
- Working on trustworthy AI with a focus on formal verification, reinforcement learning, and safe robotics
- Research Assistant under Prof. Pavithra Prabhakar
GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT (GTA)
Kansas State University
Kansas, USA | Spring 2025
- GTA for CIS200: java programming under Prof. Lang.
ROBOTICS DEVELOPER AND CONSULTANT
Northsence
Gothenburg, Sweden | 2022 to 2024
- Consulting and developing infrastructure for teleoperation mobile robots on construction sites.
- Researching robot navigation, 3D Scene Graph, Vision-based SLAM, and cloud-based robot control.
- Robot simulations.
- Making an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) from scratch.
- Providing real-time communication over the Internet for teleoperation.
SENIOR FULL-STACK .NET DEVELOPER
Part Financial Data Processing Company
Mashhad, Iran | 2020 - 2022
- Developed AI-based services and REST APIs using C# and .NET.
- Designed and implemented Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for remote AI-based authentication for Enterprise Banking infrastructure.
- Mentorship of junior developers.
RESEARCH ASSISTANT
University of Isfahan
Isfahan, Iran | Dec. 2018 - Feb. 2020
- Designed and implemented an AI-based system for authorship attribution and semantic search for old Persian manuscripts.
- Developed AI-based POS Tagger for literature researchers.
Skills
- Programming Languages: C#, C++, Python, Matlab, OpenCV, Java
- Robotics: ROS, ROS2
- Machine Learning Frameworks: Pytorch, Tensorflow, Keras, Huggingface
- Databases: MS SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis
- Web Technologies: React, JQuery, CSS, HTML
- Tools: Git, Docker, Unit testing