Sahar Asadi

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سلام، خوش آمدید.

Welcome :-)

I am a Ph.D student at the AASS Research Center, Learning Systems Lab, since January 2009. I started my research in AASS on Gas Distribution Modeling and Sensor Planning as part of the DIADEM project. Before, I finished my Master studies in Computer Science from University of Tehran, Iran, in 2008. My main research was on Pattern Finding and Alignment of Biological Network. I received my Bachelor degree from the same university in 2006. During my Bachelor studies, my main research was on Distributed AI.

Research Interests

I'm interested in learning methods for Olfaction problems like Gas Distribution Modeling. My general field of interests are:

• Olfaction and machine learning methods for gas distribution modeling

• Distributed Artificial Intelligence

• Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, especially Biological Networks

Teaching and Supervision Experiments

• Player/Stage lab for Introduction to Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Örebro University, Fall 2009.

• Coach of Mithras RoboCup Soccer Simulation Team, Farzanegan High School (NODET), Tehran, Iran, 2005 – 2006.

• Teacher of a course on the Algorithm Design for Modeling of Problems with Computer, Farzanegan High School (NODET), Tehran, Iran, 2002-2003.

Organizing Experiments

• Exec. Committee member of Soccer Simulation League, RoboCup Federation, 2008 – 2011.

• Organizing Chair, Soccer Simulation 3D Competition, IranOpen'09, Iran, 2009.

• Organizing Chair,Soccer Simulation League, RoboCup'08, China, 2008.

• Technical Committee member, Soccer Simulation League, RoboCup'08, China, 2008.

• Organizing Chair, Soccer Simulation 3D and Mixed Reality Competitions, IranOpen'08, Iran, 2008.

• Organizing Committee member, Soccer Simulation League, RoboCup'07, Atlanta, GA, USA, 2007.

Brief CV

I was born in 1983, Tehran, Iran. My high school and secondary school years passed in Farzanegan which is part of NODET organization where I became interested in experimental physics and complex systems. In 2001, I started my B.Sc. in Computer Science in University of Tehran. There, I joined to the Soccer Simulation 3D team of our university and spent three years on research in the field of Distributed AI methods. After finishing my B.Sc., I went for an internship to AGKI Lab in University of Koblenz, Germany in 2006 working on rescue agent simulation. In the same year, I joined to M.Sc. program in Computer Science in University of Tehran. My research was focused on Computational Biology, including pattern finding and alignment of biological networks.

Since 2007, I was actively involved in the Technical and Organizing committees of Soccer Simulation League in both RoboCup Federation and Iranian National Committee of RoboCup. Now, I am a member of Executive Committee of Soccer Simulation League in RoboCup Federation till 2011.

Awards

• Champion of Soccer Simulation 3D Competitions, USOpen2005, Atlanta, GA, 2005.

• Third Place Winner in Soccer Simulation 3D Competitions, RoboCup2004, Lisbon, Portugal, 2004.

• Second Place Winner in Soccer Simulation 3D Competitions, USOpen2004, New Orleans, LA, 2004.

• Diploma from the Eighth International Competition of First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics for the collaboration in the project “Why Do We See Benham's Colours?”, Poland, 2000.

• Rouzbeh Prize Winner as the best scientific paper in the Seventh Iranian Students Physics Conference, Hammadan, Iran, Summer 1999.

• Rouzbeh Prize Winner as the best scientific paper in the Sixth Iranian Students Physics Conference, Kerman Iran, Summer 1998.

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Z.R.M Kashani, H. Ahrabian, E. Elahi, A. Nowzari-Dalini, E.S. Ansari, and S. Asadi, et. al., Kavosh: a new algorithm for finding network motifs. BMC Bioinformatics, 10:318, 2009.

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

• Achim J. Lilienthal, Sahar Asadi and Matteo Reggente, Estimating Predictive Variance for Statistical Gas Distribution Modelling. AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 1137: Olfaction and Electronic Nose - Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN), 2009, pp. 65-68. [BibTex] [PDF (0.3MB)].

• H.T. Dashti, N. Aghaeepour, and S. Asadi, et. al., Dynamic Positioning based on Voronoi Cells (DPVC). RoboCup 2005: Robot Soccer World Cup IX, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2005, pp. 219-229.

• H.T. Dashti, N. Aghaeepour, and S. Asadi, et. al., UTUtd2005-3D Team Description Paper. CD Proceedings of International RoboCup Symposium, 2005.

• P. Mahmoudian, S. Asadi, et. al., UTUtd2004-3D Team Description Paper. CD Proceedings of International RoboCup Symposium, 2004.

• S. Asadi, Z. Heidari, B. Amini, and T. Aledavoud, Ball behavior on a Turn-Table. 8th Iranian Physics Student Conference, Sabzevar, 2000.

• S. Asadi, B. Amini, et. al., Why do we see BENHAM's Top colorful?. 7th Iranian Physics Student Conference, Hammadan, 1999.

• S. Asadi, B. Amini, et. al., Measurement of the Restitution Coefficient of Different Matters. 6th Iranian Physics Student Conference, Kerman, 1998.

Theses

• Sahar Asadi, Comparison and Alignment of Biological Networks. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Tehran, 2008.
• Sahar Asadi, Prediction of RNA Secondary Structure using Minimum Free Energy Functions. B.Sc. Thesis, University of Tehran, 2006.

Contact

Sahar Asadi
AASS Research Centre, Dept. of Computer Science, Örebro University,
SE - 70182 Örebro, Sweden
Room: T1214,
Phone: (+46/0) 19 - 30 1355
Fax: (+46/0) 19 - 30 3463
Email: sahar {dot} asadi {at} oru {dot} se