Hoda Akbari

M.S. Student in Software Engineering

Department of Computer Engineering

Sharif University of Technology

Tehran, Iran

email: h_akbari[AT]ce[DOT]sharif[DOT]edu

homepage: http://ce.sharif.edu/~h_akbari

EDUCATION

• Master of Science

M.S. in Software Engineering

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN.

Thesis Title: Visibility Maintenance of a Moving Segment Observer inside Polygons with Holes

Advisor: Prof. Mohammad Ghodsi

Sep. 2007 - Now

• Bachelor of Science

M.S. in Software Engineering, GPA: 17.99/20

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IRAN.

Thesis Title: Design and Implementation of a Persian Web Crawler for an Academic Search Engine

Advisor: Prof. Mohammad Ghodsi

Sep. 2003 - Sep. 2007

• Diploma

Mathematics and Physics, GPA: 19.92/20

Farzanegan High School, Mashhad, IRAN

Sep. 1998 - Jun. 2003

HONORS

• Accepted as an MS student as a talented student without entrance exam, 2007, Department of Computer Engineering, Sharif University, Tehran, IRAN.

• 5^th place, BI CUP 2006, Business Intelligence Competition, developing transportation demand data mining model, Dec, 2006, Santiago, Chile.

• 1^st  All Women Team in ACM-ICPC Regional Contest, 2005, Tehran, IRAN.

• 1^st  Team in Local DA Contest, 2005, Sharif University, Tehran, IRAN.

• 1^st place in Khorasan province, Ayande Sazan Scientific Contest, 2000, IRAN.

• Iran National Oil Co. Scholarship during B.S. career

PUBLICATONS

• Hoda Akbari, Zeinab Iranmanesh, Mohammad Ghodsi, “Parallel Minimum Spanning Tree Heuristic for the Steiner Problem is Graphs”, to appear, The 13th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems(ICPADS'07), December 5 - 7, 2007 National Tsing Hua University , Hsinchu , Taiwan.

• Amin Milani Fard, Reza Ghaemi, Mohammad –R. Akbarzadeh –T., Hoda Akbari, “Kavosh: An Intelligent Neuro-Fuzzy Search Engine”, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Application (ISDA'07), Oct 22-24, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• Amin Milani Fard, Hoda Akbari, Mohammad -R. Akbarzadeh –T, “Fuzzy Adaptive Resonance Theory for Content-Based Data Retrieval”, IEEE International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (IIT'06), 19-21, Nov 2006, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

• Amin Milani Fard, Hoda Akbari, “Transportation Demand Prediction: Approach to Business Intelligence Competition”, Business Intelligence Competition, BI CUP 2006, Dec, 2006, Matematicas Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• Teaching Assistant, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Prof. Mohammad Ghodsi, Spring 2008.

• Teaching Assistant, Theory of Languages and Automata, Prof. Ali Movaghar, Spring 2008.

• Teaching Assistant, Probability and Statistics for Engineering, Dr. Hossein Sameti, Spring 2008.

• Instructor, Object  Oriented Programming with Java, Shariati Technical College, Fall 2007.

• Teaching Assistant, Theory of Languages and Automata, Prof.. Ali Movaghar, Fall 2007.

• Teaching Assistant, Computer Workshop, Dr. Rasoul Jalili,  Fall 2006.

• Teaching Assistant, Compiler Design, Dr. Hassan Abolhassani, Fall 2006.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

• Junior Developer (Intern), Iran National Oil Co., Tehran, IRAN.

Summer 2006

• System analyst, Designer and Developer, Douran Software Company.

Dec. 2006 - Now

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Visibility Computations

• Computational Geometry

• Parallel and Distributed Algorithms

MEMBERSHIPS

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Student Member, March 2005 - March 2007