Mahmood Neshati

PhD Student of Software Engineering

Web Intelligence Laboratory

Sharif University of Technology

Tehran, Iran

wi.ce.shrif.edu

Office : Room 504, Computer Engineering Department 

    Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Phone :(+98) (21) 66163637

Email : {firstname}.{lastname}@gmail.com 

[Research Interests] [Educations] [Theses] [Awards] [Publications]
[Teaching Experience] [Industrial Experience] [Courses]

 

Research Interests

• Focused Information Retrieval

• Entity Ranking
• Expert Finding

• Statistical Machine Learning

o    Ranking and Sorting

o    Pattern Recognition

o    Stochastic Modeling

• Semantic Web

• Ontology Extraction
• Automatic Pattern Generation From Text

• Statistical Natural Language Processing

Educations

• 2008-Now, PhD of Computer Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• 2005-2007, MS Student of Software Engineering, Sharif University Of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• 2001-2005, BS in Software Engineering, Sharif University Of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• 2000-2001, College Diploma, University College, Zahedan, Iran
• 1997-2000, High School Diploma, Exceptional Talents(NODET) High School, Zahedan, Iran

Theses

• [MS] Ontology Learning and Taxonomy Construction from Text Corpus Under Supervision of DR. Abolhassani (2006-2007)
• [BS] Improving IR System Performance Using Intelligent Query Expansion. Under Supervision of DR. Abolhassani (2005)

Awards, Honors, and Citations

• 2009: SUT Graduate Entrance Scholarship.
• 2005 : Ranked 8^th in the National Computer Olympiad for university students.
• 2005 : Ranked 7^th/18^th  in "National Entrance Exam for M.Sc. Studies" in Software Engineering/Artificial Intelligence major, among more than 8'000 B.Sc. students.
• 2001 : Ranked 32^th in "National Entrance Exam for B.Sc. Studies" among more than 400'000 high school students.

Publications

    List of papers in

1. WORKING: Learning to Rank Experts, I am trying to submit this paper for CIKM 2010.
2. M. Neshati , L. Sharif Hassanabadi, Taxonomy Construction Using Compound Similarity Measure, OTM 2007,LNCS 4803, pp. 915932, 2007
3. M. Neshati , H. Abolhassani and A. Rahimi, Taxonomy Learning Using Compound Similarity Measure, The 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Silicon Valley, 2007.
4. M. Neshati , Y. Ganjisaffar and H. Abolhassani, Clustering-based Taxonomy Construction for Semantic Web Services, in proceeding of 12th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC 2007), Tehran, Iran.
5. K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Neshati, M. Jamali, H. Abolhassani and J. Habibi, Comparing Performance of Recommendation Techniques in the Blogsphere, Accepted for publishing in Proceedings of ECAI2006 Workshop on Recommender Systems, Trento, Italy, August 2006
6. M. Neshati, H. Abolhassani and A. Rahimi Web Ontology Learning using Similarity and Specificity measures ,in Proceedings of Fourth GCC Industrial Electrical and Electronics Conference.(IEEEGCC) Bahrain.
7. K. Sheykh Esmaili, H. Abolhassani, M. Neshati, E. Behrangi, A. Rostami and M. Mohammadi Nasiri, Mahak: A Test Collection for Evaluation of Farsi Information Retrieval Systems, in Proceedings of 5th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-07), Amman, Jordan, May 2007.
8. K. Sheykh Esmaili, H. Abolhassani, M. Neshati, and B. BagheriHariri, MOSSE: A Multi Ontological Semantic Search Engine, Accepted for publishing in Proceedings of ASWC2006 Workshop on Web Search Technology, Beijing, China, September 2006.
9. K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Neshati, M. Jamali, H. Abolhassani, J. Habibi, Comparing Performance of Recommendation Techniques in the Blogsphere, Accepted for publishing in Proceedings of ECAI2= 006 Workshop on Recommender Systems, Trento, Italy, August 2006
10. K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Jamali, M. Neshati , H. Abolhassani, Experiments on PersianWeblogs, Accepted in WWW2006 Workshop on Weblogging Ecosystem, Edinburgh, Scotland, Apr. 2006
11. K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Neshati, H. Abolhassani, Improving IR System Performance Using Intelligent Query Expansion, 11th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC-2006), Jan. 2006, Tehran, Iran.

12. Y. Ganjisaffar, H. Abolhassani and M. Neshati, A Similarity Measure for OWL-S annotated Web Services, to appear, The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Hong Kong, 2006

Industrial Experiences

• Winter 2009- now: Iranian Credit Bureau and Scoring Co, Data Mining Engineer, This Company aimed to rank and score customers of banks in Iran. Generally we should minimize the risk of loan for financial institutes such as banks, insurance companies etc.
• Summer 2009- winter 2009: TA Pasargad co, Java Developer, In this Project I used Jenna Library to implement a simple Ontology and develop Terminology Service.
• Autumn 2008- Summer 2009: TA Pasargad co, Data Warehouse Design and Implementation, In this Project I designed and Implement the Iranian Data Warehouse for Ministry of Refah.
• Autumn 2008- Summer 2009: TA Pasargad co, Data Warehouse Design and Implementation, In this Project I designed and Implement the Iranian Data Warehouse for Markaz e Amar e Iran.
• Autumn 2008- summer 2009: TA Pasargad co, Researcher, in this Project we should test and evaluate a web page filtering System.
• I have also had a bunch of experience on home scale projects J

Teaching Experience

• Semantic Web, Sharif University of Technology, Teacher Assistant,  Spring 2010

• Operating System, Sharif University of Technology, Teacher Assistant,  Fall 2009
• Data Base System, Sistan & Balouchestan University, Instructor, Spring 2007- Fall 2008
• Operating System, Sistan & Balouchestan University, Instructor, Spring 2007
• Data Mining {MS Course} (Fall 2006)
• Modern Information Retrieval (Spring 2006)

Research Assistanships

• RA with Dr. Abolhassani as a PhD Student
• Developing A Focused Crawler for Azad University, Karaj Branch.
• Comparing Performance of Recommendation Techniques in the Blogsphere.
• Constructing A Toolbox for Farsi Information Retrieval

• Comparing Performance of Recommendation Techniques in the Blogsphere , Under supervision of Dr. Abolhassani, Sharif Univeristy of Techonlogy, Spring 2006.

PhD Courses

• Machine Learning : I Love this Course- Fall 2009

• Text Books:
• 1) "Machine Learning", Tom M. Mitchell, McGraw Hill, 1997
• 2) "Reinforcement Learning - An Introduction", Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto, MIT Press, 1998.
• 3) I am going the lovely book: Statistical Elements of machine Learning

• Stochastic Process: One of The most interesting courses I passed- Fall 2008 à 18.6/20

• Text Books:
• 1) A. Papoulis and S. Pillai, Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes, 4th Edition, McGraw Hill, 2002.

• Neural Networks: à17.4/20

• Natural Language Processing à18.5/20

• Text Book:

o    1) Natural Language Processing, Manning

• Formal Method: This course introduced me nice mathematical formulation à20/20

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MS Courses

• Parallel Processing =>
• Data Mining à 19.9/20
• Decision Support Systems à 19/20
• Semantic Web à19.3/20

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