Ramin Halavati

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Personal Information:

 Ramin Halavati, born at August 28th, 1977, Kerman, Iran (Persia).

Current Position:

Lecturer, PhD Candidate @ Artificial Creatures Lab,

Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology

Address:

 Lab 308, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Phone:

+98-21-6616-4102, +98-912-717-9038.

Email:

halavati@ce.sharif.edu / Ramin.Halavati@ieee.org

Educational Background:

· PhD Student of Artificial Intelligence, at Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Estimated Date of Graduation: Mid 2009.

· MSc of Artificial Intelligence, from Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2003.

· BS of Software Engineering, from Computer Engineering Department, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2000.

Courses Taken:

Bio Informatics	Fuzzy Systems
Machine Learning	Neural Networks
Image Processing	Machine Vision
Speech Processing	Pattern Recognition
Planning	Natural Language Processing
Advanced Topics in Design	Expert Systems
Decision Support Systems	Fault Tolerant Systems
Advanced Topics in Knowledge Engineering

Courses Taught:

Expert Systems

    Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2007.

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

    Sharif University of Technology, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007; Spring 2008

    Kish International University, Spring 2007

    Iran University of Science and Technology, Summer 2007, Fall 2008.

Data Structures and Algorithms

    Kish International University, Spring 2007

Intermediate Computer Programming

    Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2005

Reviewer of Journals:

  IEEE Signal Processing Letters

  Computer Society of Iran Journal of Computer Science and Engineering

Reviewer/Member of Conference Program Committees:

World Congress on Nature & Biologically Inspired Computing, NaBIC'09, India.

International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, SoCPaR'09, Malaysia.

  International ACM conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems - MEDES'09, France.

  International Conference on Intelligent Agents, Web Technologies and Internet Commerce - IAWTIC08, Austria.
  International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation - CIMCA08, Austria.
  IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2009, Trondheim, Norway.

  9th  International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS09), 2009, China.

  World Congress on Nature & Biology Inspired Computing, 2009, India.

  5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology, 2008, France.

 4th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'08), 2008, China.

 5th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 2008, China.

 8th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, 2008, Taiwan

 13th International CSI Computer Conference, Kish Island, Iran

 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2007, Singapore, Singapore.

 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 6th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, 2006, Jinjan, China.

Awards and Achievements:

 Research Assistance Scholarship of Sharif University of Technology, 2006

 Best Student Paper Award at International Fuzzy Systems Association's 11th World Congress, 2005.

 PhD Top Students' Scholarship of Sharif University of Technology 2003, 2004, & 2005.

 Best Audience's Selected Paper at 1st Student Conference of Iran University of Science and Technology, 1997.

 Bronze Medal in National Computer Olympiad, 1995.

 Bronze Medal in National Mathematics Olympiad, 1995.
 Silver Medal in National Computer Olympiad, 1994.

Research Interests:

 Pattern Recognition,

 Machine Learning,

 Cognitive Psychology & Neurology,

 Consciousness,

 Metaphysics.