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In the Name of God

"Learn to become still... Place your attention on what you wish to experience"
"Happy feelings will attract more happy circumstances"
"Universe will re-arrange itself accordingly"
"Treat yourself the way you want to be treated by others"
"Choose your thoughts carefully .. you are a masterpiece of your life"
"All that we are is a result of what we have thought"
"If you turn it over to the universe, you will be surprised and dazzled by what is delivered ...this is where magic and miracles happen"
"VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins"
"The universe will correspond to the nature of your song"

References

Dr. Ahmad Khonsari
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. in Computer Science , University of Glasgow
Now at University of Tehran

relations:
  • My BS project advisor
  • Computer Networks grade: 19.5<Spring 2007>
  • TA of Computer Networks<Fall 2007>

Dr. Dan Cosley
Assistant Professor
PhD. of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Now at Cornell University

relations:

  • Co-Research on Trust inference in social networks & Information Visualization

Dr. Masoud Rahgozar
Assistant Professor
PhD. of Computer Science, Paris VI University
Now at University of Tehran

relations:

  • Research Assistant in a large-scale knowledge management project<Summer 2007>
  • Database Lab course grade : 20 <Spring 2007>

Dr. Marjan Sirjani
Assistant Professor
PhD. of Software Engineering, Sharif University, Tehran
Now at University of Tehran

relations:

  • TA of System Analysis and Design<Spring 2007>
  • System Analysis and Design grade : 18.5<Spring 2006>

University of Tehran

Motto: "Rest not a moment from learning"

Established: 1934

The University of Tehran, also known as Tehran University and UT, is the oldest and largest university of Iran. It is referred to (nicknamed) as "The mother university of Iran". It is is among the most prestigious in Iran, and among the first options of applicants in the annual nationwide entrance exam for top Iranian universities.

Many professors and students of University of Tehran have won the prestigious national and international awards. But perhaps the most notable of these is the Nobel Prize awarded to Dr. Shirin Ebadi in 2003. Also the founder of modern Fuzzy Logic, Lotfi Zadeh, is from University of Tehran.

 

 

 

 

 

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 Mona Haraty

B.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering (with specialization in IT)

University of Tehran(Iran)

haraty<at>gmail<dot>com

 

Courses:

Major GPA

17.83 /20

3.94 /4

GPA

17.19 /20

3.63 /4

*Highest GPA among the students of IT branch

Refereed Papers:

Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty, Dan Cosley:
GePuTTIS: General Purpose Transitive Trust Inference System For Social Networks, To appear in proceeding of AAAI Spring Symposium 2008 - Social Information Processing (U.S.A., California)

Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty:
Improving Accuracy of Tagging Systems Using Tag Qualifiers and Tagraph Vocabulary System, Proceeding of 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research 2007 (Greece), & to appear in "Advances in Metadata and Semantics research" (Post-Proceeding)

Research Interest

  • Human Computer Interaction
    • Human Information Interaction
      • Social Information Processing and Recommender systems
      • Information Visualization, Management
      • Human Centered Multimedia (HCM)
    • Artificial Intelligence in HCI
      • Intelligent User Interfaces
      • Bio-inspired Computing
    • Computer-Mediated Communication
      • Web Based Communities and Social Networks
      • Computer Supported Collaborative Design
      • Communication Design

Graduate Courses:

  • Intelligent Information Retrieval
  • Biologically inspired Computing (voluntarily attended)
  • Data Mining (as TA, voluntarily attended)

 

 

 

Educational History

2004-2007

Computer science with specialization in Information Technology

Major GPA

17.83 /20

3.94 /4

 Details

GPA

17.19 /20

3.63 /4

Graduate Courses:

  • Intelligent Information Retrieval (grade:18)
  • Biologically inspired Computing (voluntarily attended)
  • Data Mining (as TA)

2003-2004

Mechanical Engineering

1999-2003

Farzanegan High School*

1996-1999

Farzanegan Guidance School*

*(A very selective school which accepts only top students in the city annually), a branch of NODET (National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents)

Note: I was very interested in Physics during high school, therefore, I decided to study Mechanical Engineering as a practical and advanced variant of physics. After finding out that Physics of Mechanical Engineering is way different from what I wanted from the Physics and due to getting familiar with and attracted to Computer Engineering and its interesting  courses and areas of research during my relationship with my husband, who was studying Computer Engineering in the University of Tehran, I decided to change my field of study to Computer Engineering .

Now I'm so happy that I am studying Computer Engineering. It's a very beautiful field and I recommend it to every one who loves Physics! and thank God for all the events of my life.

Course Credit Grade (Scale 20) Reference Authors
Computer Fundamentals 4 19.75 Patt, Patel
Computer Architecture 3 18.2 Patterson, Hennessy
Advanced Programming 3 17.3 Deitel
Internet Engineering 3 17.7 Martin Fowler
Data Structures and Algorithms 3 19.25 CLRS
Software engineering 3 16 Larman
Algorithm Design 3 19.3 CLRS
Artificial Intelligence 3 16.25 Norvig, Russel
Operating Systems 3 17.6 Silberschatz
Electronic Commerce 3 17.5 ?
Systems Analysis and Design 3 18.5 Hoffer
Basic Database Design 3 14.1(1) Elmasry
IT foundations 3 17 Chapters from several books
Intelligent Information Retrieval 3 18 Manning
Computer Networks 3 19.5 Kurose, Ross
Assembly & Machine Language 3 17 Mazidi?
Database Lab 1 20 --
Multimedia Systems 3 current semester Ghanbari
Specialized English 2 18.5 Oxford?
IT foundations Lab     ACM & IEEE journals
Multimedia Lab 1 current semester --

(1)Highest mark in the class = 15.6

 

Work Experience & Projects

  • Working as analyst in feasibility study, feature selection, usecase modeling and prototyping of "Knowledge Discovery" subsystem of a large-scale knowledge management project- <Summer 2007>

    • Noticeable projects:

  • Trust-Network based Tagging System (Based on J2EE using JSF, AJAX, MS-SQL)- <Spring 2007>

    Business-plan of a Geographical Advertisement System (Tablighrafia) -<Fall 2006>

    Implementing a web based Auction System (Based on J2EE using Struts, Hibernate,Log4J)- <Spring 2006>

  • Implementing Real Estate Management Information System (Based on J2EE using Struts, Hibernate,Log4J)- <Spring 2006>

  • Pagination: Implementing an optimized arrangement of advertisements using simulated annealing algorithm as the optimization algorithm- <Fall 2004>

  • Implementing Simplified "Age of Empires" (in Linux Environment using QT)- <Spring 2004>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research, Scientific Talks, Technical Reports

RA Experience:

Working as analyst in feasibility study, feature selection, usecase modeling and prototyping of "Knowledge Discovery", subsystem of a large-scale knowledge management project- <Summer 2007>

Refereed Papers:

Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty, Dan Cosley:
GePuTTIS: General Purpose Transitive Trust Inference System For Social Networks, To appear in proceeding of AAAI Spring Symposium 2008 - Social Information Processing (U.S.A., California)

Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty:
Improving Accuracy of Tagging Systems Using Tag Qualifiers and Tagraph Vocabulary System, Proceeding of 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research 2007 (Greece), & to appear in "Advances in Metadata and Semantics research" (Post-Proceeding)

Ongoing Research Projects:

  • Mona Haraty, Syavash Nobarany, Dan Cosely, Ahmad Khonsari: Facilitating history learning using an adaptive zoomable timeline

  • Mona Haraty, Syavash Nobarany, Mahmoud Reza Hashemi:
    Human-centered viedo compression in H.264

  • Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty, Dan Cosley, Ramtin Khosravi:
    Trust-based personal recommendation manager, integrated with Amazon, & Bibsonomy

  • Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty, Dan Cosley: Collective decision making based on trust relationships

[More Information about ongoing projects]


Scientific Talks:

  • Mona Haraty, Syavash Nobarany: Intoduction to WEKA (a Data Mining Software)<Fall 2007>

  • Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty: Effective oral presentation methods<Fall 2007>

  • Customer Relationship Management:

    • Mona Haraty: Introduction to Data Mining and Recommender Systems<Fall 2006>

  • Mona Haraty, Syavash Nobarany: Project Scheduling, Tracking and Earned value analysis in Software Engineering<Fall 2006>

  • Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty: Risk Management in IT projects <Spring 2006>

Technical Reports:

  • Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty, "Trust Inference Systems, Introducing GePuTTIS", Spring 2007.

  • Mona Haraty, Syavash Nobarany, "Introduction to Data Mining and Recommender Systems", Fall 2006.

  • Syavash Nobarany, Mona Haraty, "Introduction to VoIP and CallCeters", Fall 2006.

  • Mona Haraty, Syavash Nobarany, "Auction Systems : Types, Challenges, Requirements & Payment methods", Spring 2006.

 

Teaching experiencence

  • Teaching Special Topics in Physics ( For student interested in attending in Physics Olympiad) at Farzangan High school(Karaj), 2001

  • Teaching Assistant for the following courses at ECE Department, University of Tehran

  • Data Structures and Algorithms <Fall 2006>

  • Computer Fundamentals <Fall 2006>

  • Systems Analysis and Design <Spring 2007>

  • Data Mining(Graduate course) <Fall 2007>

  • Computer Networks <Fall 2007>

 

 

 

 

 

 

Activity and Diversity

  • Artistic skills
    • Calligraphy
  • Sports
    • Professional basketball player*
    • Good at swimming
    • Playing table tennis
    • Good at handball
  • Other Languages
    • Good at German language

    • *I enjoyed a lot when playing basketball, but unfortunately I don't play now since my knees have been hurt.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

Technical Skills

  • Information Visualization Framework: Piccolo, Prefuse

  • Data Mining software: WEKA

  • Design and Analysis of Software and Web-Based Information Systems

  • Environments: Linux, Windows, MS-DOS

  • Programming Languages and Tools: Proficient in Java, J2EE, C/C++, SQL, XML. Familiar with Pascal

  • Web Design Languages and Environments: HTML, Javascript, CSS, DreamWeaver

  • Frameworks and Web Technologies: Hibernate, Struts, JSF, QT, Log4J, AJAX, WebServices (Axis)

  • Word Processing Tools: LATEX, Microsoft Word (and other MS-Office programs), VIM

  • Other Tools: OPNET simualtor, ModelSim, SmartDraw, MagicDraw