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Postdoctoral/IVADO fellow (November 2019–October 2020) at the Université de Montréal/Mila, Montreal, Canada. Under the supervision of Prof. Simon Lacoste-Julien (co-supervised by Prof. Michel Gendreau)

Postdoctoral/IVADO fellow (November 2018–October 2019) at the Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, Canada. Under the supervision of Prof. Michel Gendreau

Post-doctoral Researcher (July 2017–October 2018) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. Under the supervision of Prof. Lise Getoor

Joint Ph.D. in Computer Science (2017) at the University of Ghent (UGent) and KU Leuven, Belgium. Under the supervisions of Prof. Martine De Cock, (UGent and University of Washington Tacoma, USA) and Prof. Marie-Francine Moens (KU Leuven).

Master’s in Computer Science (2011). Technical University of Delft (TU Delft), The Netherlands.

Bachelor in Computer Science (2007). Shahid Beheshti University (SBU), Tehran, Iran

Industry Work Experience

  • Software Engineer and Android Developer (June 2010 – September 2012). West Consulting Co, Delft, The Netherlands

  • Software Developer (April 2008 – July 2009). Laser Telecommunication Co. Tehran, Iran.

Volunteer works

  • Mentor volunteer at 14th Women in Machine learning workshop (WiML), (9 Dec 2019)

  • Organizer of IVADO/MILA summer school on bais and discrimination in AI, (3-6 June 2019)

  • Organizer of a reading group on Neural Networks at KU Leuven (Fall 2015)

  • Mentor volunteer at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) (2015)

  • Translator and teaching volunteer at code.org (2015–present)

  • Student volunteer at IJCAI (2015)

  • Charity volunteer at TUDelft for the child foundation organization (2012–present)

Program committee/(sub)-Reviewer

  • 2019:UMAPUser Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, DeLBP International Workshop on Declarative Learning Based Programming

  • 2018: ECIR 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval, AAAI The 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, RRL The Relational Representation Learning workshop at NIPS

  • 2017: ECML/PKDD (The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases), UMAP User Modelling, Adaptation and Personalization, ECIR (39th European Conference on Information Retrieval), SNAM Social Network Analysis and Mining Journal

  • 2016: ECIR 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval, WiML Women in Machine Learning workshop, IJCR The International Journal of Current Research, WI (The 2016 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence), StarAI (Sixth International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI), KDD (The ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining), WIMS (International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics), FUZZ-IEEE (The IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems), ECIR (The European Conference on Information Retrieval), Webist (The International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies), SCSN (The International Workshop on Semantic Computing for Social Networks: from user information to social knowledge)

  • 2015: MUM (The International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), WIMS (The International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics), ASONAM (The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining), Elsevier (Elsevier Editorial System for Computer Communications), IFSA-EUSFLAT (The World Congress of the International Fuzzy Systems Association, and the Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology)

  • 2014: Webist (The International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies), ECML/PKDD (The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases), STAIRS (The European Starting AI Researcher Symposium)

  • 2013: BNAIC (The Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence), ISKE (The International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering), SocInfo (The International Conference on Social Informatics)