Ali Soltani-Farani

Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Engineering, Artificial Intelligence,
Digital Media Lab (DML),
Department of CE, Sharif Univ. of Tech.,
Phone: +98 21 6616 6683
Email: a_soltani at ce dot sharif dot edu

Ali is a PhD student and a member of DML at Sharif University of Technology where he studies Computer Engineering. His main study has been speech processing CV[PDF].

Research Interests

My research is mainly focused on Compressed Sensing, which I have started working on only recently. Prior to this I was mainly working on Speech Processing and Speaker Recognition. Main interests include:

Publications

[1] Farajtabar M., Rabiee H. R., Shaban A., and Soltani-Farani A., "Efficient Iterative Semi-Supervised Classification on Manifold", International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW) , Vancouver, Canada, December 2011

[2] Mohammadi S. H., Sameti H., Tavanei A., Soltani-Farani A., "Filter-bank Design Based on Dependencies Between Frequency Components and Phoneme Characteristics", In Proc. European signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 2142-2145, Barcelona, Spain, August 2011

[3] Soltani-Farani A., Sameti H., "Detecting Speakers on a Phone Line", M.Sc. Thesis, Sharif University of Technology, 2010

[4] Soltani-Farani A., Sameti H., “A VQ-based Method for Speech Denoising in the Log-Spectral Domain”, B.Sc. Thesis, Sharif University of Technology, 2008

My Favorite Quote:

... and you, Marcus, you have given me many things; now I shall give you this good advice. Be many people. Give up the game of being always Marcus Cocoza. You have worried too much about Marcus Cocoza, so that you have been really his slave and prisoner. You have not done anything without first considering how it would affect Marcus Cocoza's happiness and prestige. You were always much afraid that Marcus might do a stupid thing, or be bored. What would it really have mattered? All over the world people are doing stupid things ... I should like you to be easy, your little heart to be light again. You must from now, be more than one, many people, as many as you can think of ...

– Karen Blixen (writing under the pseudonym “Isak Dinesin”),
from “The Dreamers”, from “Seven Gothic Tales”.