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Ashkan Zarnani, Ph.D. Candidate, M.Sc., B.Eng. Apt. 203, 10609 79 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6E 1S2 Email: [email protected] Tel: +1-780-289-4181 ece.ualberta.ca/~azarnani HIGHLIGHTS • 4+ years of hands on experience in software analysis, design and development using .NET, C++, • • • • SQL Server and RUP. 3+ years of design and development of business intelligence systems experience in several financial, industrial and service organizations including a national bank. Proficiency in C++ and C#, database systems, software engineering processes and lifecycle. Solid knowledge and practical expertise (6 years) in data mining, statistical analysis, machine learning, data warehousing and BI, spatial and time series analysis using R, C++, Matlab, etc. Proven skills in problem solving, critical and innovative thinking, team work, fast learning. EDUCATION Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Engineering Sept 2009 – Present University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB | GPA: 3.9/4 Expected Completion: December 2013 Focus: Intelligent Systems for Weather Forecasting Applications TECHNICAL SKILLS M.Sc., Computer Engineering University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran | GPA: 17.84/20 Focus: Banking Business Intelligence Systems using Data Mining Sept 2004 – Dec 2006 B.Eng., Computer Engineering Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran | GPA: 15.77/20 Sept 2000 – Sept 2004 • • • • • • • Business Intelligence Suite: Microsoft BI (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), MS SharePoint. Data Mining and Statistical Analysis: R, Matlab, Weka, SAS, ArcGIS. Programming: C++, C#, C, Java, Visual C#.NET, Visual C++.NET. Database Systems: SQL Server 2005/2008, Oracle 10g, MySQL, MS Access. Software Engineering: Rational Suite and RUP, UML Modeling, MS Project. Web Development: ASP.NET, HTML, XML, JavaScript. Misc: Shell Scripting, Linux, Windows, MS Office Suite. Research and Teaching Assistant, Facility for Advanced Computational WORK EXPERIENCE Intelligence and Applications (FACIA), University of Alberta Sept 2009 – Present • Design and development of intelligent systems for weather forecast uncertainty modeling. • Application of methods such as SVM, RF, Fuzzy Clustering, Regression, Time Series Modeling, etc. using R, C++, Matlab, etc. • Teaching assistant in several courses: Data Mining, Intelligent Systems Engineering, Database Systems, Software Engineering and Test, Computer Programming, Discrete Structures. Software Analyst and Architect, Tejarat Bank, Iran • Performed requirement analysis and specification for Core Banking Applications. • Surveyed various core banking solutions in the market in terms of specification and technological architecture. • Analyzed and designed a high-level architecture in a team for the To-Be software architecture along with migration road-maps. Mar 2009 – Aug 2009 Ashkan Zarnani T: +1-780-289-4181 / E: [email protected] Business Intelligence Analyst and Developer, System Group Co., Iran Sept 2007 – Feb 2009 • Designed and developed several data warehouses, ETL and OLAP systems using MS BI Suite for three different companies. • Designed and developed a Meta-data Management System using VC#.NET for supporting BI project implementation and deployment. • Designed dashboard reports and enterprise portal systems. Software Development Manager and Analyst, DBRG, University of Tehran, Iran Jan 2007 – Aug 2007 • Analysis and design of a data mining sub-system for a large scale digital library system used in more than 300 organizations nationwide. • Led a team of four software engineers for analysis and design of data mining functionalities including document clustering and classification, document and keyword recommendation, trend analysis etc. Business Intelligence Analyst and Developer (PT), Mellat Bank, Iran • Designed and developed a spatial classification system in C++ for branch revenue forecast using various demographic/urban spatial data. • Designed and developed a user-friendly application using VC#.NET and MS SQL Server for trend discovery and analysis in the banking spatial database using computational intelligence methods. July 2005 – June 2006 Software Developer and Manager (PT), IT Barin Co., Iran • Designed and developed a distributed library management system in VC#.NET and ASP.NET. • Designed and implemented database and data migration systems in MS SQL Server. • Led a team of 3 developers during the last three months of the project. Aug 2004 – Aug 2005 HONORS & AWARDS • Awarded the University of Alberta FS Chia Ph.D. Scholarship (16 awards offered each year), 2009. • Awarded the TAKFA Research Grant, Iran’s Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology, 2005. • Ranked 13th in the nationwide computer science graduate studies entrance exam among more than 11,000 participants, Iran, 2003. • Distinguished as an “Excellent Student” for two consecutive semesters in the B.Sc. program, Ranked 3rd out of 30 students in the overall program, 2002. PUBLICATIONS CONFERENCES • Lead author of 4 peer-reviewed journal articles published in international journals on data science. Two new papers are currently under review. Please refer to the Appendix for full listing. • Lead and co-author of 11 peer-reviewed conference papers and presentation in 4 conferences. MEMBERHIPS • ACM SIGKDD (2013-present) • IEEE Computer Society (2006-present) • Informatics Society of Iran (2000-present) VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES • • • • • • Organizing Member, International Fuzzy Systems Association Congress, 2013 Student Mentor, WP Wagner high school, 2012 Paper Reviewer, various journals and conferences, 2008-present Science Fair Judge, Oliver school, 2011 Event Assistant, University of Alberta Iranian Students Association, 2009 Guitar Player, Bu-Ali Sina University Faculty of Engineering music band, 2002 Ashkan Zarnani, Ph.D. Candidate, M.Sc., B.Eng. Apt. 203, 10609 79 Ave, Edmonton, AB T6E 1S2 Email: [email protected] Tel: +1-780-289-4181 ece.ualberta.ca/~azarnani Appendix – List of Publications: A. Zarnani, P. Musilek, 2011, “Clustering Numerical Weather Forecasts to Compute Prediction Intervals”, 10th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology and European Meteorological Society (EMS) Annual Meeting, Berlin, Germany. A. Zarnani, P. Musilek, X. Shi, X. Ke, H. He, R. Greiner, 2011, “Learning to Predict Ice Accretion on Electric Power Lines”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 25(3), 609-617. A. Zarnani, P. Musilek, J. Heckenbergerov, 2012, “Clustering Numerical Weather Forecasts to Obtain Statistical Prediction Intervals”, Meteorological Applications, doi: 10.1002/met.1383. A. Zarnani, P. Musilek, 2012, “Fuzzy Clustering for Statistical Modeling of Forecast Uncertainty”, Soft Computing Models in Industrial and Environmental Applications, 188, 287-296. A. Zarnani, P. Musilek, 2013, “Learning Uncertainty Models from Weather Forecast Performance Databases Using Quantile Regression”, 25th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Baltimore, MD, USA. A. Zarnani, P. Musilek, 2013, “Non-parametric Interval Forecast Models from Fuzzy Clustering of Numerical Weather Predictions”, In Proc. 2013 IFSA World Congress and NAFIPS Annual Meeting, Edmonton, Canada. A. Zarnani, P. Musilek, 2013, “Prediction Interval Modeling of Weather Forecasts Using Quantile Regression and Clustering: A Comparative Study”, Applied Soft Computing, (under review). A. Zarnani, P. Musilek, 2013, “Time Series Modeling of Weather Forecast Error for Objective Uncertainty Analysis and Prediction”, (to be submitted). A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, C. Lucas, & F. Taghiyareh, 2009, “Effective Spatial Clustering Methods for Optimal Facility Establishment”. Intelligent Data Analysis, 13(1), 61-84. A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, C. Lucas, & F. Taghiyareh, 2007, “Spatial Data Mining for Optimized Selection of Facility Locations in Field-based Services”. IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining, Hawaii. April 1-5, 2007, IEEE Press. A . Zarnani and M. Rahgozar . 2006, “Mining Spatial Trends by a Colony of Cooperative Ant Agents“, In Proc. SIAM Data Mining 2006 Workshop on Spatial Data Mining, Apr. 2006, Bethesda, MD. A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, C. Lucas, and A. Memariani, 2006, "AntTrend : Stigmergic Discovery of Spatial Trends". 16th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2006, Bari, Italy, September 27- 29, 2006, LNCS Springer - Verlag. H. Amiri, A. Zarnani, M. Tavallaee, S. Abedinzadeh, M. Rahgozar, F. Oroumchian, 2008, "Investigation of the Lambda Parameter for Language Modeling Based Persian Retrieval". The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS-08), Giza, Egypt. A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, and C. Lucas, 2006, "Efficient Discovery of Knowledge from Large Geo Spatial Databases: An Evolutionary Approach". International Conference on Data Mining, The 2006 World Congress on Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, WORLDCOMP'06, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 26-29, 2006. 1/2 T: +1-780-289-4181 / E: [email protected] Ashkan Zarnani A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, C. Lucas, 2006, “Nature - Inspired Approaches to Mining Trend Patterns in Spatial Databases". 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2006, Burgos, Spain, September 24- 27 2006, LNCS Springer – Verlag. R. AliMohammadzadeh, M. Rahgozar, A. Zarnani, 2006, “A New Model for Discovering XML Association Rules from XML Documents”. In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Mining, (ICKM-06), Prague, Czech Republic, August 25-27, 2006. F. Taghiyareh, A. Zarnani, M. Tavalaee, M. Siadati, 2006, "Business Process Redesign in Software Organizations Based on the Software Quality Management System Standards", The Second National Conference on Information Communication Technology Management (IRICTM-2006), Tehran, Iran. R. AliMohammadzadeh, M. Haghir Chehreghani, A. Zarnani, M. Rahgozar, 2006, "W3-Miner: Mining Weighted Frequent Subtree Patterns in a Collection of Trees", International Conference on Pattern Analysis (ICPA-06), Budapest, Hungary. S. Soltan, A. Zarnani, R. AliMohammadzadeh, M. Rahgozar, 2006, "IFDewey: A New Insert-Friendly Labeling Schema for XML Data", International Conference on Computer Science (ICCS-06), Budapest, Hungary. 2/2