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Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili Web Intelligence Laboratory Computer Engineering Department Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran office : 404, Khodrow Building, Phone :(+098) (21) 6164113

[ Mahak (Persian Test Collection) Page][ Persianblog (Weblog Dataset) Page ]

[ Persian User Manuals]

Educations

• 2004-2006 : M.S. in Software Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (see my transcript: MST)
• 1999-2004 : B.S. in Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (see my transcript: BST1, BST2)
• 1998-1999 : College Diploma: Exceptional Talents High School, Sanandaj, Iran
• 1995-1998 : high School Diploma: Exceptional Talents High School, Sanandaj, Iran

Honors

• 2006 : Ranked 2^nd  in "Cumulative GPA" among all software engineering MS. students in Sharif University of Technology.
• 2006 : Selected as a talented student by Sharif University of Technology administration for conference registration, travel, and accommodation Support
• 2004 : Ranked 16^th  in "National Entrance Exam for M.Sc. Studies" in Software Engineering major, among more than 8'000 B.Sc. students.
• 2004 : Ranked 26^th  in "National Entrance Exam for M.Sc. Studies" in Artificial Intelligence major, among more than 8'000 B.Sc. students.
• 1999 : Ranked 321^st in "National Entrance Exam for B.Sc. Studies" among more than 300'000 high school students.
• 1998 : Ranked 1^st in "Entrance Exam for College Studies" in Kurdistan  Province.
• 1997 : Semifinalist of National mathematics Olympiad.
• 1997 : Semifinalist of National physics Olympiad.
• 1997 : Semifinalist of National chemistry Olympiad.
• 1995 : Qualified in "National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET)" entrance examination

Research Interests

• Information Retrieval 
• Web Information Retrieval
• Semantic Web Information Retrieval
• Recommender Systems
• Question Answering Systems
• Natural Language Processing
• Computational Linguistics
• Statistical Natural Language Processing
• Data Mining
  • Web Mining
  • Dimension Reduction
• Machine Learning
  • Learning Automata
  • Markov Decision Process
  • Multiagent Learning
•  Social Network Analysis
  • Weblogging Ecosystem
  • Hyperlink Analysis

Publications

• Conference Papers:

• 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.

• E. Behrangi, H. Ghasem-Zadeh, K. Sheykh Esmaili and B. Minaei-Bidgoli, "A Geographical Question Answering System".  In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on  Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST2007, Indexed by ISI) , Barcelona, Spain, March  2007.

• K. Sheykh Esmaili and  H. Beigy, "Finding Shortest Paths in Stochastic Graphs Using Learning Automata",  In Proceedings of 12th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2007), Tehran, Iran, February 2007.

• K. Sheykh Esmaili, H. Abolhassani and Zeinab Abbassi, "BlogDisc: A System for Automatic Discovery and Accumulation of Persian Blogs". In Proceedings of CIS2E 06 The International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (Published by Springer), Bridgeport, USA, December  2006.

• K. Sheykh Esmaili and  H. Abolhassani, "A Categorization Scheme for Semantic Web Search Engines", In proceedings of 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-06), Sharjah, UAE, March 2006.
• Y. Ganji Saffar, K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Ghodsi and H. Abolhassani, "Parallel Online Ranking of Web Pages", In proceedings of 4th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-06), Sharjah, UAE, March 2006. 
• K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Neshati and  H. Abolhassani, "Improving IR System Performance Using Intelligent Query Expansion",  11th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2006), Jan. 2006, Tehran, Iran

• Conference Posters:

• A. Rahimi, H. Abolhassani and K. Sheykh Esmaili,  "Authorship Attribution in Persian Scripts Using Neural Networks", In 12th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2007), Tehran, Iran, February 2007.
• M. Mohammadi Nasiri, K. Sheykh Esmaili and H. Abolhassani, "A Statistical Stemmer for Farsi Language", 11th International CSI Computer Conference (CSICC'2006), Tehran, Iran, January 2006.

• Workshop Papers:

• K. Sheykh Esmaili, H. Abolhassani, M. Neshati, and B. Bagheri Hariri, "MOSSE: A Multi Ontological Semantic Search Engine", Accepted for publishing in Proceedings of ASWC2006 Workshop on Web Search Technology, Beijing, China, September 2006.
• 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.
• B. Bagheri Hariri, H. Sayyadi, H. Abolhassani, and  K. Sheykh Esmaili, "Combining Ontology Alignment Metrics Using the Data Mining Techniques", Accepted for publishing in Proceeding of 2006 International Workshop on Context and Ontologies (C&O '2006), August 2006, Trento, Italy.
• K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Jamali, M. Neshati, and  H. Abolhassani,  "Experiments on Persian Weblogs", Accepted in WWW2006 Workshop on Weblogging Ecosystem, Edinburgh, Scotland, Apr. 2006.

• Technical Reports:

• K. Sheykh Esmaili and A. Rostami, "List of Persian Stopwords", Technical Report No. 2006-03, Semantic Web Research Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, June 2006 (in Persian)
• K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Jamali and  M. Neshati, "Identification of main communities in Persianblog", Technical Report No. 2006-02, Semantic Web Research Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, May 2006. (in Persian)
• K. Sheykh Esmaili and Hassan Sayyadi  "Developing a Semantic Web Enabled Search Engine for Sharif University", Technical Report No. 2006-01, Semantic Web Research Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, March 2006 (in Persian)
• K. Sheykh Esmaili, "Migrating From Database to Knowledgebase for Computer Network  Vulnerabilities", Technical Report No. 2005-01, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Tehran, January 2005, (in Persian)

• Theses:

• K. Sheykh Esmaili, "Information Retrieval in Semantic Web Documents", Semantic Web Research Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, M.S. thesis, First Report, January 2006.
• K. Sheykh Esmaili, "Implementation of Khazaneh's DSS", Computer Department, Sharif University of Technology, B.Sc. thesis, October 2004.

Co-Authors of my papers:  Babak Bagheri Hariri,  Ehsan Behrangi,  Hassan Abolhassani, Hassan Sayyadi, Jafar Habibi, Mahmood Neshati,  Mohammad Ghodsi  Mohsen Jamali, Mojtaba Mohammadi Nasiri and  Yasser. Ganji Saffar.  

• Constructing A Toolbox for Farsi Information Retrieval
• Developing A Web Based Question Answering System
• Knowledge Discovery in Semantic Web
• Developing a Semantic Web for Sharif University of Technology

Selected Co-Supervised BS Theses

• Automatically Gathering and Extracting Data From Web on Pre-Specified Topics (By M. H. Rohban and M. R. Ebrahimi)
• Designing a Domain-Specific Meta Search Engine (By H. Firoozi)
• Toward Order Based Measures for Information Retrieval Evaluation (By R. Zandifar)
• Neural Network Based Authorship Attribution in Persian Scripts (By A. Rahimi)
• Developing a Crawler for Semantic Web (By H. Sayyadi)
• A Google Based Spatial Question Answering System (By E. Behrangi)
• Developing a Sample Anti-Spam Filtering System (By A. Zohdi)
• Designing an Intelligent FAQ (By M. Neshati)
• A Statistical Stemmer for Persian Language (By M. M. Nasiri)
• Automatic Discovery of Persian Weblogs (By Z. Abbassi)
• Automatically Constructing a Persian Thesaurus (By M. Ghaderian)

Work Experiences

• I have been a part-time employee  in Pardazeshgar Software Engineering Co. for nearly three years. My main organizational roles were: Analyst, Designer, and Tester.
• Followings are projects that I have involved:
  • Sibkhad: which is a country wide enterprise system for processing medical documents. This web application renders the incoming documents by its rule engine.
  • Ejlas: which is a web application for automation of medical science universities head master's conference. In each conference some statements are approved and to perform these statements some tasks would be created, manager can supervise experts by feedbacks they send.

English Proficiency

• TOEFL
  •  PBT: 597
  • TWE: 3                                               
• GRE
  • Verbal: 370
  • Quantitative: 800
  • Analytical Writing: 3
• On August 2006, I attended in ECAI2006 held in Trento (Italy) and presented my paper.