no. 67, 15th St. Saadatabad, Tehran, Iran

Phone +98 912 209 9957 Email s.valizadeh@ece.ut.ac.ir

 

Sima Valizadeh

 

 

Education

 

2006 - 2009

University of Tehran

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Control)

n     Total GPA: 18.08/20.0

Tehran, Iran

 

 

 

2001 - 2005

Sharif University of Technology

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Communication)

n     Total GPA: 16.30/20.0

Tehran, Iran

 

 

 

2000 - 2001

Farzanegan Pre-university Institute

Pre-university Certificate

n     Under the supervision of NODET (National Organization for Developing Exceptional Talents)

n     Total GPA: 19.62/20.0

Qazvin, Iran

 

 

 

1997 - 2000

Farzanegan High-school

High-school Diploma

n     Under the supervision of NODET (National Organization for Developing Exceptional Talents)

n     Total GPA: 19.77/20.0

Qazvin, Iran

 

 

honors

2006

Accepted in the Center of Excellence for Control and Intelligent Processing, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Tehran, Iran

2006

Ranked 17th in nation-wide entrance exam for graduate education in Iranian universities among nearly 10,000 BSc EE students

2001

Accepted in Sharif University of Technology, the most prestigious Iranian university in the field of engineering

2001

Ranked 41th in nation-wide entrance exam for Iranian universities among more than 400,000 examinees

1999

Accepted in the first stage of National Mathematics Olympiad

1989-2001

Top student during my 12 years education

Professional Experiences and Projects

2008

M.Sc. Project, Distributed Leak Monitoring in Fuel Transportation Pipelines using Multi-sensor Data Fusion Techniques, under the supervision of Prof. Behzad Moshiri

Spring 2008

"A New Numerical Optimization Algorithm Inspired From Opportunistic Behavior" as a main project for Social, Cognitive and Behavioral Systems course, Prof. Lucas

Fall 2007

Research and simulation on three classification tools based on Support Vector Machines: GEPSVM, LPSVM and MNPSVM and their comparison as a main project for Pattern Recognition course, Dr. Araabi

Fall 2007

A comprehensive research on nonlinear observers, Dr. Rajayi

Spring 2007

Research and simulation on two input selection methods: mutual information and gamma test and their comparison as a main project for System Identification course, Dr. Araabi

Spring 2007

Research and simulation of an LQR based MIMO PID controller synthesis method for unconstrained Lagrangian mechanical systems as a main project for MIMO Control course, Dr. Rajayi

Spring 2007

Research and simulation on Approximate Dynamic Programming based approach to process control as a main project for Optimal Control course, dr Yazdanpanah

Fall 2006

"A Particle-Swarm-Based Approach for Optimum Design of BELBIC Controller in an AVR System" as a main project for Biocomputing course, Prof. Lucas

Summer 2005

B.Sc. Project, Sinusoidal speech modeling and its simulation, under the supervision of Dr. Babayizadeh

Spring 2005

Research and simulation on eXplicit congestion Control Protocol for high bandwidth delay product Networks as a main project for Data Networks course, Dr. Pakravan

Spring 2005

Research and simulation on plotting arrayed antenna AF as a main project for Antenna course, Dr Akbari

Spring 2005

Research and simulaiton on multisection coupled line couplers with MicroOffice as a main project for Microwave course, Dr. Banaei

publications

 

S. Valizadeh, B. Moshiri, K. Salahshoor, Multiphase Pipeline Leak Detection Based on Fuzzy Classification, in Proceedings of the Second Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization 2009, Bali, Indonesia, vol. 1159, pp. 72-80 [view abstract]

 

S. Valizadeh, B. Moshiri, K. Salahshoor, Leak Detection in Transportation Pipelines Using Feature Extraction and KNN Classification, in Proceedings of Pipelines 2009: Infrastructure s Hidden Assets, San Diego, CA, pp. 580-589 [view abstract]

 

S. Valizadeh, M. R. Jamali, C. Lucas, A Particle-swarm-based Approach for Optimum Design of BELBIC Controller in AVR System, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems 2008, Seoul, Korea, pp. 2679-2684 [view abstract]

Society and Committee Membership

2002

Member of the Social Affairs Committee in the Nationwide Workshop on Dynamic Systems Simulation (SIMULINK), School of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

2001-2005

Member of Extracurricular Student Group of Electrical Engineering Department (Resana), Sharif University of Technology

English Tests

 

TOEFL iBT: 101/120 (Reading: 28/30, Listening: 23/30, Speaking: 26/30, Writing: 24/30)

 

GRE General Test: Quantitative Reasoning: 800/800, Verbal: 350/800, Analytical Writing: 3.5/6

Computer Skills

 

Modeling Communications and Control Systems using MATLAB and SIMULINK

Modeling Electronic Circuits using SPICE

Communication Networks Modeling using Network Simulator

Simulation in Microwave office design environment

Process Modeling with HYSYS and Flow Simulation with OLGA

Object Oriented Programming and Windows Programming

System Programming in Microprocessor based minimum system and programming micro-controllers

Program design using PASCAL, C++ and ASSEMBLY

Extracurricular Activities

 

Playing Harmonica

Literature and poetry

Cycling, Swimming and Inline Skating

Advanced Courses

 

Pattern Recognition

Estimation and System Identification

Optimal Control

Multivariate Control

Digital and Nonlinear Control

Advanced Instrumentation

Bio-inspired Computing

Stochastic Processes

Data Networks

Digital Signal Processing

Research Interests

 

Computer Vision

Video Processing

Medical Image Processing

Robotics

Digital Signal Processing

Pattern Recognition

Data Fusion

Intelligent Control

References

 

Prof. Behzad Moshiri (moshiri@ut.ac.ir)

PhD, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK

Professor at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

My M.Sc. research supervisor

Research: Sensor / Data Fusion, Advanced Instrumentation Design

 

Prof. Caro Lucas (lucas@ipm.ir)

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Professor at the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Research: Prediction, Emotional Control

 

Dr. Karim Salahshoor (salahshoor@put.ac.ir)

PhD, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology

Professor at the University of Petroleum Technology, Tehran, Iran

My M.Sc. research co-advisor

Research: Distributed Monitoring, Fault Detection