Education
| 2023 - Current | 
            Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering  | 
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| 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  | 
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| 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  | 
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| Nov. 2016 - Nov. 2017 | 
            Quality Control (QC) Engineer at Donar Industrial Group, Tabriz, Iran monitoring operations outputs based on guidelines  | 
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| June 2015 - Sept. 2015 | 
            Research and Develop (R&D) Intern at Donar Industrial Group, Tabriz, Iran worked on collision simulation  | 
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| 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)  | 
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| Programming Skills | 
             Object-Oriented Programming, Simulation, Web Development, Testing, and Version Management  | 
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| Familiar Python Libraries | 
             NumPy, NetworkX, SciPy, scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Django, PyQt  | 
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| 3D Design Software | 
             ANSYS Discovery, Rhino, Blender  | 
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| 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 |