Arash Jalal Zadeh Fard - Department of Computer Science ...

<strong>Arash</strong> <strong>Jalal</strong> <strong>Zadeh</strong> <strong>Fard</strong><br />

415 GSRC, <strong>Computer</strong> <strong>Science</strong>, UGA, Athens GA, 30602-7404 • 1 (706) 254-9023 • arash@uga.edu • http://cs.uga.edu/~ar<br />

Summary <strong>of</strong> Qualifications<br />

� +5 years <strong>of</strong> experience in administration <strong>of</strong> <strong>Computer</strong> Networks and Cluster Systems<br />

� Proven skills in designing and implementing <strong>Computer</strong> Programs in C and Java<br />

� Good knowledge <strong>of</strong> designing, installing and using database systems<br />

� Good knowledge <strong>of</strong> S<strong>of</strong>tware Engineering and UML design<br />

� Implemented some projects using Matlab and R programming environment<br />

Education<br />

PhD program in <strong>Computer</strong> <strong>Science</strong>, Expected 2014<br />

The University <strong>of</strong> Georgia, Athens, GA<br />

Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> in Electronic Engineering, 2000<br />

Amirkabir University <strong>of</strong> Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran<br />

Thesis: Parallel Processing System Using Pentium <strong>Computer</strong>s<br />

Bachelor <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> in Electronic Engineering, 1994<br />

Iran University <strong>of</strong> <strong>Science</strong> and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran<br />

Thesis: Design and implementing a Printer Buffer using 8031 microcontroller<br />

Skills<br />

� Programming languages: C, C++, Java<br />

� Operational s<strong>of</strong>tware: Matlab, R, MPI library, Weka (machine learning), Netica (Bayesian Network), Protégé and Jena-API<br />

(Ontology)<br />

� Relational DBMS: mySQL<br />

Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Experience<br />

LSDIS Lab, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Computer</strong> <strong>Science</strong>, The University <strong>of</strong> Georgia Athens, GA, USA<br />

Researcher August 2011 – Present<br />

� Joined to LSDIS (Large Scale Distributed Information Systems) lab to do some research related to Big Data<br />

� Research on distributed algorithms for Graph Pattern Matching on very large graphs<br />

� Working with Hadoop and GPS (Graph Processing System)<br />

� Studies about Semantic Web<br />

Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC), The University <strong>of</strong> Georgia Athens, GA, USA<br />

Research Assistant January 2012 – Present<br />

� Working with a team <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essionals to develop an API for some ontologies in biochemistry.<br />

� Design and implementation <strong>of</strong> algorithms for researchers in biochemistry, like structural search in a Glyco-Tree.<br />

Drake Lab, Odum School <strong>of</strong> Ecology, The University <strong>of</strong> Georgia Athens, GA, USA<br />

Cluster Administrator and Researcher May 2009 – December 2011<br />

� Administration <strong>of</strong> a Cluster System which has 176 processing elements and utilizes Torque job manager<br />

� Scientific programming in Matlab and R environments, or using MPI library in C language mainly for running on the existent<br />

Cluster System<br />

� Research project on classification <strong>of</strong> invasive weeds in the North America using Machine Learning techniques<br />

THINC Lab, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Computer</strong> <strong>Science</strong>, The University <strong>of</strong> Georgia Athens, GA, USA<br />

Researcher July 2010 – August 2011<br />

� Studies on Decision Making Under Uncertainty for single-agent and multi-agent systems.<br />

� Developed MAID-Solver v1.0 program which implements MAID (Multi Agent Influence Diagram) algorithm.<br />

� Written in Java; Netica’s API is used for Bayesian Networks. Gambit program is used as the computing engine <strong>of</strong> the package to<br />

find equilibrium <strong>of</strong> a multi-agent game. It is released on the wiki-page <strong>of</strong> THINC Lab under Affero GNU public license v3.0.

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High Performance Computing Research Center, Amirkabir University <strong>of</strong> Technology Tehran, Iran<br />

Researcher June 2000 – December 2008<br />

� Studied different aspects <strong>of</strong> Cluster Computing such as Parallel I/O and Workload Management.<br />

� Integrating some Linux-Cluster systems from scratch.<br />

� Developing some scientific parallel programs using MPI library in C and C++.<br />

Mahab Ghodss Consulting Engineers Company Tehran, Iran<br />

Network Administrator September 2000 – December 2008<br />

� Installed, configured and maintained <strong>Computer</strong> Network Devices such as switches, routers, and wireless access-points, and<br />

Network Services such as Windows Active Directory, DHCP, and DNS<br />

� Managed a LAN with more than 1000 nodes, distributed among various buildings<br />

� Contributed to the Management Information System <strong>of</strong> the company<br />

Honor<br />

2nd Winner-Applied Research, for applied research on Cluster Computing, The 21st Khwarizmi International Award, Iran, Feb. 2008.<br />

Publication<br />

� <strong>Arash</strong> <strong>Fard</strong>, Amir Abdolrashidi, Lakshmish Ramaswamy, John A. Miller, “Towards Efficient Query Processing on Massive<br />

Time-Evolving Graphs”, International Workshop on Collaborative Big Data (C-Big 2012) In conjunction with CollaborateCom<br />

2012, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, October 2012.<br />

� M. Movafegh, J. Jabbari, A. <strong>Jalal</strong> <strong>Zadeh</strong> <strong>Fard</strong>, A. Farahani, F. Keshavarz, P. Mobarak Farkhondeh, B. Yadegari, “Implementation<br />

<strong>of</strong> an electronic Portal for projects and its effect on Project Management and Knowledge Management”, presented in the 6th<br />

International Industrial Engineering Conference, Tehran, Iran, February 2009.<br />

� M. Movafegh, A. <strong>Jalal</strong> <strong>Zadeh</strong> <strong>Fard</strong>, A. Farahani, F. Keshavarz, P. Mobarak Farkhondeh, B. Yadegari, “Implementing an<br />

Information System for allocation <strong>of</strong> project resources in Mahab-Ghodss Company”, presented in the 6th International<br />

Management Conference, Tehran, Iran, December 2008.<br />

� M. Movafegh, P. Mobarak Farkhondeh, A. <strong>Jalal</strong> <strong>Zadeh</strong> <strong>Fard</strong>, F. Keshavarz, A. Farahani, B. Yadegari, “Key factors in the<br />

successful implementation <strong>of</strong> an integrated Management Information System in an organization”, presented in the 1st Conference<br />

on Information Technology Project Management, Tehran, Iran, June 2008.<br />

� <strong>Arash</strong> <strong>Jalal</strong>zadeh <strong>Fard</strong>, Peyman Mobarak Farkhondeh, Bahman Javadi, S. Ahmad Motamedi, “Design and Implementation <strong>of</strong> a<br />

Commodity Cluster to Speedup Processing on Satellite Images”, 2nd IEEE-GCC 2004 Conference, Manama, Kingdom <strong>of</strong><br />

Bahrain, November 2004.<br />

� <strong>Arash</strong> <strong>Jalal</strong>zadeh <strong>Fard</strong>, Bahman Javadi, S. Ahmad Motamedi, “Cluster-based Parallel Processing System with Flexible<br />

Topology”, 9th Annual CSI <strong>Computer</strong> Conference (CSICC 2004), Sharif University <strong>of</strong> Technology, Tehran, Iran, February 2004.<br />

� <strong>Arash</strong> <strong>Jalal</strong>zadeh <strong>Fard</strong>, Bahman Javadi, S. Ahmad Motamedi, “Parallel Processing System with Pentium Processors”, 3rd<br />

Iranian Student Conference on <strong>Computer</strong> <strong>Science</strong> and Engineering, Amirkabir University <strong>of</strong> Technology, May 2000.