

Shayan
Karimi
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Control & Robotic Specialization) & AI Researcher

01 EDUCATION
2016 - 2020
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Control)
Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran
Thesis: Solving the Robot Path Planning Problem with Deep Q Network Algorithm (19.75 / 20)
GPA: 16.12/20.00 (3.24/4.00)
2015
Diploma in Mathematics
GPA: 19.94/20.00 (4.00/4.00)
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Stochastic Processes (I): 18.8
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Probability & Statistics: 17
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Mathematics (II): 19.33
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Electric Circuits (II): 17.25
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Modern Control: 17.44
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Instrumentation:18.8
Selected Courses
Research Interests
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Reinforcement Learning
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Game Theory
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Artificial Intelligence
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Control and Robotics
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Computational Intelligence
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Machine Learning
02 Experiences
Work and Academic experiences
2019-2020
Working as researcher at the Institute For Research In Fundamental Sciences (IPM)
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Internship project : modeling self-stabilization algorithm on a different structure with game theory concepts.
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Present project : working on a new developed algorithm for solving an Art Gallery Problem (AGP) with Theoretical Computer Science group.
2019- March 2021
Machine Learning Algorithm Developer at ParsPooyesh Fanavar
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Responsible for developing stable softwares related to Reinforcement Learning concepts in a collaboration with a software engineering team. My current project is related to design optimized algorithms for detecting optimal paths in maps.
2021
Working as research Intern for Shenasa AI Group
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I am responsible for research about face-anti spoofing techniques which are essential for authentication systems. We are now in the first phase of this internship and as a result we are reading new techniques and ideas from recent published papers for designing better and more effective algorithm for this problem.
2016-2020
Doing successful projects in different courses
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Bachelor Project (AlphaRoute):
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In this project I have designed dqn algorithm for the purpose of robot path finding in Grid environment and I also used optimization methods according to latest papers for dqn algorithm for Faster convergence and less computation and this project is now submitted as research paper to a scientific journal.
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Machine Learning
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Implementing two different kinds of neural networks for distinguishing handwriting numbers in a paper which were captured by laptop’s camera
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Optimizing both mentioned neural networks in order to improve their precision.
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Modern Control
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Simulating a teleoperation robotic system(Phantom Omni Robot) with Matlab Simulink.
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Controlling force and position of this robot with PID controller and designing other control based elements.
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Modeling the system with Robotic Operation System(ROS).
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Digital Control
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Designing of a controller for determining the speed and location of UGV robot in the Raspberry pi hardware
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Designing a web based user interface by using Arduino and NodeMCU
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The summary of this project is reported in the Research Gate.
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Instrumentation
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Designing couple of important aspects of Smart Cars based on Arduino that each one of them is capable of collecting information from near environment and transferring these information interactive web page with ThingsBoard platform.
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We also use communication protocols for transferring information between two Smart Cars.
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The summary of this project is reported in the Research Gate.
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PUBLICATIONS
Accepted
Ehsan Futuhi, Shayan Karimi, “Applying Nested Monte-Carlo Tree Search in Large Scale Kakuro Puzzles” , 7th of ICOAI, Amsterdam, Netherland. Will publish in International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing (IJMLC).
2020-Published
Ehsan Futuhi, Shayan Karimi, “Solving Nurikabe with Monte-carlo Tree Search” , 5th of ICCIA, Beijing, China.(And I presented this work orally ).
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The Leader of the AlphaForset Project ● I have made a open source research project which is about designing multi agent deep reinforcement learning algorithm for fire prevention in large forests. This project is at its initial levels and I am working on simulating my method on simulation softwares.
Amirkabir University Innovation Center
2020
Shayan Karimi, Ehsan Futuhi , “Analyzing Twitter text messages related to Covid-19”, Published in ResearchGate.
“On Distributed Algorithms for Minimum Dominating Set Problem” submitted to 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2021)(pre-print is available in Arxiv)
2020-Submitted
PRESENTATIONS
July 2019
9th of IPM-HPC Workshop on Multi-core Systems and GPU Programming. Tehran, Iran.
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Learning how to do programming in parallel by using CUDA and OpenMP
August 2020
4th of IPM Advanced School on Computing:Artificial Intelligence, Tehran, Iran.
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participating in several lectures conducted by renowned experts about current challenges in AI and also Machine Learning
March 2020
Sharif AI challenge ,Sharif University of Technology, Iran
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Designing a bot and competing in an online multiplayer game, which developed by faculties of Sharif University
03 SKILLS
Computer and Programming Sofwares
Python
Comfortable
TensorFlow
Comfortable
Java
Comfortable
++C/C
Comfortable
Matlab
Comfortable
Proteus
Comfortable
ROS
Familiar
ThingsBoard
Familiar
JavaScript
Familiar
HTML/CSS
Familiar
Hardwares
AVR/ARM
Comfortable
Arduino
Comfortable
NodeMCU
Comfortable
Raspberry Pi
Familiar
Online Courses
Robotic Summer School
Practical Machine Learning Workshop
Reinforcement Learning Workshop
Introduction to Machine Vision and Image Processing Course
[AI School at Part Specialized College of Artificial Intelligence
Honors and Awards
2016-2020
Full Scholarship Award
Amirkabir university of Technology
Awarded for being in the top 700 of National Public Universities Exam
taken in 2016.
2015
National Scientific Olympiad in the Mathematics/ Physics / Computer fields
Being in the top selective students at the first stage
Extracurricular Activities
Language Proficiency
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Playing Chess
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Swimming
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Strategic computer gaming
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Solving numerical and logical puzzle
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Persian: Native
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English: IELTS 7( Listening : 7 - Reading : 8 - Writing : 6 - Speaking : 7.5)
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GRE
95%
ILLUSTRATOR
02 References
Dr. Mohammad Bagher Menhaj
(My B.Sc. final project Supervisor)
Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Amikabir University of Technology
Email: menhaj@aut.ac.ir
Dr. Iman Sharifi
Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
Amirkabir University of Technology
Email: imansharifi@aut.ac.ir
Homepage : https://isharifi.ir/site/