Aslan Noorghasemi



Education


2023 - Current Carnegie Mellon University
 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering
2011 - 2016 Sharif University of Technology
 B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Economic

Honors and Awards


2016 2nd place award in the event on Hyperidea of the Internet of Things (IoT), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. (blog)
2013 3rd place award in the 2nd National Competition of Toy Design and Manufacture, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. (blog)
2011 Bronze medalist at the 5th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), Katowice, Poland. (official results) (blog)
2011 Silver medalist at the Group Competition of 5th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), Katowice, Poland. (official results) (blog)
2010 Gold medalist at the 6th National Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, Young Scholars Club (YSC), Tehran, Iran. (blog)

Industry Experience


March 2022 - July 2023 Part-Time Data Analyst at BNDBS IoT Hosting Company, Tabriz, Iran
 developing APIs for data analysis purposes
Dec. 2018 - Feb. 2022 Research and Develop (R&D) Expert at Donar Industrial Group, Tabriz, Iran
 worked on design optimization, failure simulation, and data analysis
Nov. 2016 - Nov. 2017 Quality Control (QC) Engineer at Donar Industrial Group, Tabriz, Iran
 monitoring operations outputs based on guidelines
June 2015 - Sept. 2015 Research and Develop (R&D) Intern at Donar Industrial Group, Tabriz, Iran
 worked on collision simulation
June 2014 - Aug. 2014 Research and Develop (R&D) Intern at Leader Industrial Group, Tabriz, Iran
 worked on system failure modeling

Selected Courses


Dynamic Network Analysis (Societal Computing, Ph.D.) Optimization (Mechanical Eng., Ph.D.)
Game Theory (Economy, B.Sc.) Econometrics (Economy, B.Sc.)
Time Series (Mathematics, B.Sc.) Product Design and Development (Mechanical Eng., B.Sc.)

Trainings


2021 Advanced Django: Mastering Django and Django Rest Framework Specialization from Coursera
2020 Machine Learning Specialization: (by Andrew Ng) from Coursera

Computer Skills


Programming Languages

Python, C/C++, HTML/CSS, JavaScript; (Github)

Programming Skills

Object-Oriented Programming, Simulation, Web Development, Testing, and Version Management

Familiar Python Libraries

NumPy, NetworkX, SciPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Django, PyQt

3D Design Software

ANSYS Discovery, Rhino, Blender

Other Design Software

LaTeX, Presonus Studio One, Adobe (After Effects, Premiere, Photoshop, Illustrator)

Language


Persian & Azeri native
English advanced  // TOEFL iBT (2021): 108/120 (blog), GRE (2021): V:155/170 Q:164/170 W:4.5/6 (blog)
Spanish beginner  // DELE (2022): Nivel A1, 98/100
German beginner

Hobbies and Interests


Music playing piano and melodica, had a number of courses about film music, particularly interested in mathematical and computational approaches to the music theory
Photography, Videography interested in social documentary and astrophotography (gallery), top artwork in the 7th National Photography Festival of Firoozeh, Tabriz, Iran. (blog)
Sports powerlifting, inline/ice skating, electric skateboarding, mountaineering, hiking and camping
Biology interested in domestic cats and houseplants, attended workshops about mycology and agriculture