Amir Pouya Aghasadeghi
AI M.Sc. Student, Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic)
Amirkabir University, Hafez St., Tehran, Iran
www.amirpouya.ir – [email protected] - +98 912 396 8919
Date of Birth: November, 26th 1989
Last Update: December 2014
Research Interests 
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Education
Machine Translation and NLP
Deep Learning
Social Network Analysis
Machine Learning
Data Mining and Text Mining
2013-Present: M.Sc. In Artificial Intelligence
Amirkabir University (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran. GPA: 3.8/4
Thesis: Arabic-Persian Machine Translation in low resource settings, under supervision of
Dr. Shahram Khadivi – Human Language Technology and Machine Learning Lab
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Statistical Natural Language
Processing (4/4)
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Neural Networks (3/4)
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Machine Learning (4/4)
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Probabilistic Graphical Models
(4/4)
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Machine Translation (4/4)
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Statistical Pattern Recognition
(This semester)
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Statistical Machine Learning
(This semester)
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Evolutionary Computation
(This semester)
2008-2013: B.Sc. In Computer Software Engineering
Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.
GPA: 3.11/4 (last 2 years GPA: 3.68/4)
Thesis: User Experience Design for Android Mobile Applications, under supervision of
Dr. Mohammad Reza Kangavari
 Selective Courses:
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Database Design (4/4)
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Software Eng. (4/4)
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Design of Algorithms (4/4)
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Operating Systems (4/4)
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Basics of Game Dev. (4/4)
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Artificial Intelligence (4/4)
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Information retrieval (3/4)
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Programming languages (4/4)
2004-2008: High School Diploma- Allameh Helli High School
(NODET-National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents)
Technical Skills
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Teaching
Experience
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C++, Java, Python and C#
Visual Studio, Netbeans, eclips and Qt
My SQL and MS SQL Server
Matlab, Octave and R
Moses, cdec-decoder and giza++
SRILM, KENLM, OPEN NLP and Stanford NER
CyteScape, Gephi , Pajek
PHP,HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JQuery
Microsoft Office, Photoshop and LaTex
GNU Linux (Ubuntu/OpenSUSE) & Windows
Basics of Programming, Teacher Assistant – Iran University of Science and
Technology (2010)
Artificial intelligence, Teacher Assistant – Amirkabir University (2014)
o Dr. Mohammad Mahdi Ebadzadeh
Research and
Work Experience Research Assistant under supervision of Dr. Shahram Khadivi
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Arabic- Persian Statistical Machine Translation
Machine Translation using only Monolingual Corpora
Other Natural Language Processing Tasks
Developer and Researcher
Targoman is the first national statistical machine translation system currently supporting EnglishPersian translation.
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Improving translation quality and fluency
Gathering new corpora and data for machine translation and language model
Developing a national machine translation system
Improving Targoman.com user interface
Researching on state of the art methods for machine translation
Website Administration
Apprentice
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Awards and
Honors
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Nationwide Universities Entrance Exam for Graduate Programs in Computer
Engineering –Artificial Intelligence (M.Sc. Konkoor)(2013)
o Ranked 90th out of approximately 30000 contestants
Nationwide Universities Entrance Exam for Undergraduate Programs in
Mathematics and Physics (B.Sc. Konkoor)(2008):
o Ranked (Top 0.2%) out of approximately 500000 contestants
Selected for studying in Allameh Helli- National Organization for Development of
Exceptional Talents (NODET) through an exam with less than one percent
acceptance rate (2001)
Language and
International
Exams
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Academic
Course Projects
 Thesis (Dr. Shahram Khadivi)
Farsi: Native
English: Fluent
Arabic: Fair
French: Fair
TOEFL: 97 ( Reading: 28, Listening: 29,Speaking: 20, Writing: 20)
GRE: Verbal: 143, Quantitative: 163, Writing: 2.5
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Arabic-Persian Machine Translation in low resource settings
 Machine Learning (Dr. Saeed Shiri 2014)
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Soccer Player Simulation using Reinforcement Learning
Implementation of Exploiting Similarities among Languages for Machine
Translation, Mikolov et al.
 Machine Translation (Dr. Shahram Khadivi 2014)
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IBM1 Translation Model
Adding a State-full features to Moses
 Yaser Al-Onaizan and Kishore Papineni, “Distortion Models For
Statistical Machine Translation”, ACL 2006.
Arabic- Persian translation using English as pivot language
A survey on Statistical Machine Translation using Decipherment
 Probabilistic Graphical Models (Dr. Ahmad Nikabadi - 2014)
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Implementation of Scalable Decipherment for Machine Translation via Hash
Sampling, Sujith Ravi (ACL 2013)
 Natural Language Processing (Dr. Shahram Khadivi - 2013)
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Name Entity Recognition For Persian Language
 Best F-measure among students of the class
A survey on Statistical Machine Translation methods in Absence of
Parallel Corpora
 Neural Networks (Prof. Reza Safabakhsh - 2013)
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Implementation of various neural networks (Perceptron, RBF, Kohonen,
Boltzmann and etc.)
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A survey on Ridgelet Neural Networks
 Thesis (Dr. Mohammad Reza Kangavari - 2013)
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User Experience Design for Android Mobile Applications
 Artificial Intelligence (Dr. Behrouz Minayi - 2012)
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Statistical English to Persian Transliteration Using Monolingual Data
 Game Development (Dr. Behrouz Minayi - 2013)
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Mongol invasion
 A tower defense game implemented with HTML5 + CSS3 + JQuery
 Internet Engineering (Dr. Zeynab Movahedi - 2012)
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ParaVirtualization With Xen
 Operating Systems(Prof. Mohsen Sharifi- 2011)
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Implementation of Memory Management System in Linux
 Software Engineering (Dr. Behrouz Minayi - 2011)
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Online Desktop System (JQuery, HTML5 and ASP.net)
 Database Design (Dr. Majid Ghayouri - 2010)
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Extracurricular
Activities
Hotel Reservation System (PHP and MySQL)
 Former Member of IUST Students Guild Council (2010)
o Elected by students’ vote
 Editor in chief of Baztab Student Magazine (2010-2011)
 Writing at DamDam.ir, a Persian blog about everything (2007Peresent)
o With approximately 200 unique visitors per day.
 Former Member of Bahar Charity Group (2008-2013)
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References
 Dr. Shahram Khadivi ([email protected])
 Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Ebadzadeh ([email protected])
 Dr. Mohammad Reza Kangavari ([email protected])
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