CV

Information Technology Consultant

ITFORCE, Singapore

Consultant on software engineering projects.

Senior Research Engineer

AGENCY FOR SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH (A*STAR), Singapore

Developed a machine-learning-based approach to design a sleep quality assessment tool for McLaren.

Graduate Teaching Assistant & Graduate Research Assistant

The Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Assisted in multiple undergraduate courses in Data Structures & Algorithms, Database Systems, and Introduction to Computer Science.

Graduate Research Assistant

Innovation Lab, University of Waterloo

Developed a platform that searches documents with text and mathematical content using a pen-based interface.

Visiting Researcher

The Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Served as a co-investigator on the math retrieval project, devising effective queries from texts containing mathematical formulas and content.

Postdoctoral Researcher

The Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Research focused on data intelligence and data lakes.

BENG

Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran

Software Engineering

• Undergrad Research Advisor: Prof. Mohsen Sharifi

MENG

Science and Research Branch, Azad University, Iran

Software Engineering

• Masters Thesis: Application of Textual Corpus in Ontology Matching
• Thesis Advisor: Prof. Amir Masoud Rahmani

PhD

The Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Computer Science

• PhD Thesis: Update-Aware Information Extraction
• Thesis Advisor: Prof. Frank William Tompa
• Committee Members: Prof. Doan, Prof. Ilyas, Prof. Kerschbaum, Prof. Gurfinkel

Graduate Student Research Dissemination Award

University of Waterloo

Encourages graduate students to present their own research at academic conferences.

Graduate Studies Conference Funding

University of Waterloo

Supports graduate students participating in academic travel and international experiences.

Doctoral Thesis Completion Award

University of Waterloo

Assists highly qualified doctoral students in completing their thesis writing and defense.

Student Travel Grants

ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext and the Web

For students traveling to attend SIGWEB Sponsored Conferences.

Math Domestic Graduate Student Award

University of Waterloo

Supports domestic graduate students in the Faculty of Mathematics engaged in research-based programs.

Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women

University of Waterloo

Provides outstanding full-time female doctoral students with an entrance scholarship.

Mathematics Graduate Experience Award

University of Waterloo

Provides financial support for full-time graduate students who acquire experience as a Teaching Assistant.

Update-Aware Information Extraction

The Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Doctoral Thesis

Application of Textual Corpus in Ontology Matching

Science and Research Branch, Azad University

Masters Thesis

Predictable and Consistent Information Extraction

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019

A Framework for Extracted View Maintenance

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2020

Computer-Assisted Cohort Identification in Practice

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH) 3, 2

Autonomously Computable Information Extraction

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 16, 10

Updatable Extracted Views for Improving Unstructured Data Quality

ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ)

In preparation for publication.

Differential Maintenance Engine (DME)

• Sole designer and developer.
• Conducted experiments published in the VLDB journal.

Updatable Views Verifier (U2V)

• Sole designer and developer.

Iterative Query Refinement System (IQRef)

• Sole designer and developer.
• Published in ACM HEALTH journal.

Math-Aware Search Engine

• Implemented features of the search engine, conducted study of proximity signals, created proximity re-ranking run.