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    Sajjad Pakdamansavoji
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    \begin{tabular}{ c | c | c | c | c}
        \, \href{mailto:sj.pakdaman.edu@gmail.com}{\faEnvelopeO\enspace sj.pakdaman.edu@gmail.com} \, & \,  \href{https://github.com/sajjadpsavoji}{\faGithub\enspace sajjadpsavoji} \, & \,  \href{https://www.linkedin.com/in/sajjad-pakdamansavoji-9672221b6/}{\faLinkedin\enspace Sajjad Pakdamansavoji} \,  & \,  \href{https://sajjadpsavoji.github.io}{\faLink\enspace sajjadpsavoji.github.io} \,  &  \, \faMobile\enspace 647-835-6679 \, \\  
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\SectionTight{SUMMARY}
{\small \textcolor{E3Color}
As an avid scientist with expertise in applied machine learning and software development, I'm experienced in open-source, on-premise LLM prompting and eager to expand my skills through an Amii internship.\medskip
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\SectionTight{EXPERIENCE}
\mycventry{2024--2024\\Jan--Feb}{Technical Advisor, Vector Institute for AI, Toronto, Canada}
    {
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Provide technical expertise on \textbf{LLM adoption} for \textbf{3 SMEs}: Profound Impact Corp, LVS AI Inc, and Giant Step Inc.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Held \textbf{Data Readiness} and \textbf{Model Deployment} workshop for \textbf{40+ technical staff} coming from \textbf{20+ SMEs}.
    }
\mycventry{2023--2023\\May--Dec}{Applied AI Intern, Vector Institute for AI, Toronto, Canada}
    {
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Held \textbf{Fastlane NLP workshop} for \textbf{20+ MLAs}, covering from \textbf{preprocessing} to \textbf{LLM prompting}.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Designed a structure QA generation tool utilizing \textbf{Chain of Thought Prompting} on \textbf{Llama2} and \textbf{GPT4}.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Developed a novel maximized-learning platform called \textbf{"Booklet"} leveraging \textbf{CI/CD}, \textbf{Jupyter}, and \textbf{Google Cloud}.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Updated \textbf{Forecasting Bootcamp} for \textbf{data refinement}, \textbf{model adjustments}, and \textbf{training optimizations}.
    }
\mycventry{2021--2023\\Spet--May}{ML Engineer, TransPlan, Toronto, Canada}
    {
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Contributed to a \textbf{ML integrated software} which executes \textbf{multi-target multi-source object forecasting}.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Presented \textbf{proof-of-concept} and \textbf{prototypes} supporting its applicability in \textbf{real-world setups}.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Designed a \textbf{graphical user-interface} using \textbf{OpenGL} and \textbf{PyQt5} for \textbf{human-in-the-loop} feedback.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Localized and classified objects using online \textbf{trajectory forecasting} and machine learning approaches.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Reduced overall trajectory estimation error from \textbf{20\%} to \textbf{3\%}.
    }
% \mycventry{2020--2021\\Sept--July}{Research Intern, Machine Learning Lab, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran}
%     {
%         {\scriptsize $\bullet$}  Implemented a \textbf{novel supervised training} of \textbf{neural networks} for feature representation in \textbf{public dataset} CFAR100\\
%         {\scriptsize $\bullet$}  \textbf{Optimized} codes for faster evaluation and testing of feature separation in layers of \textbf{convolutional neural networks}\\
%         {\scriptsize $\bullet$}  Formulated proofs on how the novel approach \textbf{generalizes} to previous methods for \textbf{classification} and \textbf{regression} 
%         % supervisor: \href{https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/~akalhor}{Ahmad Kalhor}, Assoc.Prof.  
%     }
\mycventry{2019--2020\\Sept--Sept}{Research Intern, Computer Networks Lab, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran}
    {
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Extracted, transformed, processed and analyzed \textbf{messy network data} form internet into an easy-to-use \textbf{dataset}.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Deployed \textbf{deep learning} based packet inspection (DPI) to \textbf{classify} and filter internet traffic into \textbf{100 categories}.\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Succeeded in \textbf{forecasting} category traffic-load for a private ISP by \textbf{recurrent neural networks(LSTMs)}.
        % supervisor: \href{https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/~vmansouri}{Vahid Shahmansouri}, Asst.Prof.  
    }
    \mycventry{2019--2019\\July--Sept}{ML Intern, AVIR Company, Tehran, Iran}
    {
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Established a \textbf{multi-modal ML baseline} to translate Iranian \textbf{Sign Language (ISL) translation} from video to text\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Extracted joint feature from hand and face key-points, trained \textbf{sequence-to-sequence} models for translation\\
        {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Increased product accuracy from \textbf{82\%} to \textbf{90\%} on alphabet-level and from \textbf{60\%} to \textbf{65\%} on world-level translation
    }



% \SectionTight{LEADERSHIP}
% \mycventry{2022--2023\\Jun--Jan}{Head of Logistics and Operation, Toronto Health Datathon}{
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Responsible for organizing the datathon sponsored by UofT, Vector, and Google\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Designing the main venue, registration platforms and communicating with the participants
%     }
% \mycventry{2022--2023\\Jun--Jan}{Committee Member, CUPE Toronto District Council}{
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Representing CUPE local 3903 in council as an organization focused on Toronto employees\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Providing deliverables and updates in the council meetings based on local branch activities
%     }
        
%         \faltcventry{2022--2023}{VP External, Iranian Graduate Student Association at YU (IGSAYU)}
%         \faltcventry{2021--2022}{Student Represantative, Vector Institute in AI}
        
%         \mycventry{2018--2019\\Jul--Sep}{Vice Chair, IEEE University of Tehran Student Branch}{
%             {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Oversaw subcommittees in the student branch, facilitating collaboration withing different sectors\\
%             {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Organized, planned, and held in-person/online events and venues focused on IEEE services
%         }

    
    % \mycventry{Feb'20--Jun'20}{Teaching assistant for Pattern Recognition \textbf{(graduate-level course)}}{Held hands-on session, designed 2 homeworks and marked them, designed 3 quizzes and marked them, graded their final project, suggested questions for midterm and final exam}
% \mycventry{Feb'20--Jun'20\\\textbf{\footnotesize graduate course}}{Pattern Recognition, University of Tehran}
% {
%     - held hands-on session, designed 2 homeworks and 3 quizzes
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/~dehaqani}{\underline{Mohammadreza Abolghasemi}, Asst.Prof,  University of Tehran}
% }
% \mycventry{Feb'20--Feb'21\\\textbf{\footnotesize graduate course}}{Digital Signal Processing (3 semesters), University of Tehran}
% {
%     - designed 4 CAs, one analytical assignment and organized other TAs
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Yqzkf3UAAAAJ}{\underline{Hadi Amiri}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}\\
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VspDmN8AAAAJ&hl=en}{\underline{Majid Badieirostami}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}\\
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=atXIykYAAAAJ&hl=en}{\underline{Mohammadali Akhaee}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }
% \mycventry{Feb'20--Jun'20}{Teaching assistant for Digital Signal Processing}{Desinged 2 computer assignments and a homework}
% \mycventry{Sep'19--Feb'21}{TA, Communication Systems I (3 semesters), University of Tehran}
% {
%     \emph{Obligation:} designed 4 homeworks all of which include implementation part and 4 CAs, assessed students
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fCts8c0AAAAJ&hl=en}{\underline{Maryam Sabaghian}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}\\
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Yqzkf3UAAAAJ}{\underline{Hadi Amiri}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }

% \mycventry{Feb'20--Jun'20}{Teaching assistant for Communication Systems I}{Desined a computer assignment, assesed their performance via interview sessions}
% \mycventry{Sep'19--Feb'20}{Teaching assistant for Communication Systems I}{Desined 3 computer assignments, assesed their programming skills individually}

% \mycventry{Feb'19--Feb'20}{Engineering Probability and Statistics (2 semesters), University of Tehran}
% {
%     - designed homeworks and computer assignments, held Q\&A session
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/~dehaqani}{\underline{Mohammadreza Abolghasemi}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }
% \mycventry{Feb'19--Jun'19}{Teaching assistant for Engineering Probability and Statistics}{Designed homeworks, held Q\&A session, marked their homeworks}
% \mycventry{Feb'19--Jun'19}{TA, Electronics I}
% {
%     \emph{Obligation:} marked student's homeworks, mentored them in the problem-solving procedure\\
%     \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=T7fVw08AAAAJ}{\underline{Mohammadreza Kolahdooz}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }







\SectionTight{PROJECTS}
% \mycventry{October'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/analog_modulatio_am_dsb_ssb}{Analog Communication Simulator}}{Implemented transmitter and receiver for several analog modulations such as AM, DSB, LSSB, USSB, PM and FM}
% \mycventry{August'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/sdn_routing}{Shortest-Path Routing in Software Defined Networks}}{Implemented Dijkstra algorithm using Ryu controller and Mininet}
% \mycventry{July'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/gnutella_p2p}{Gnutella}}{From scratch implementation of a peer-to-peer network scheme inspired by Gnutella}
% \mycventry{June'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/tcp-congestion-control-in-ns2}{TCP Congestion Control}}{Illustrated congestion control mechanism using NS2}
% \mycventry{May'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/FTP_Server}{File Transfer Protocol Server}}{From scratch Object Oriented based implementation of a FTP server}
% \mycventry{Dec'21}{\href{}{Fake Face Generation Based on Celebrity Faces}}{
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Comparison of the performance of \textbf{Deep Generative Models} on face generation based on the public dataset CelebA\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Trained models include \textbf{GANs}\{DCGAN, ACGAN, CGAN\}, \textbf{Normalizing Flow} \{RealNVP\}, \textbf{Auto Encoders}\{VAE\}\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Ranked models based on Inception Score (top \textbf{IS$\approx$113.9}) and  Frećhet Inception Distance (top \textbf{FID$\approx$8.2})
% }
% \mycventry{Sept'23}{\href{}{Forecasting Bootcamp Refinement}}{
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Tackled \textbf{M5-forecasting challenge} with hyper-param tunning of \textbf{Prophet}, \textbf{Neural Prophet}, and \textbf{ARIMA}.\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Experimented with \textbf{NBEATS}, \textbf{NHITS}, and \textbf{DeepAR} on hourly electricity consumption of \textbf{321 users} in 2012-2014.\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Experimented with \textbf{Autoformer} and \textbf{NHITS} on hourly road occupancy data of \textbf{862 sensors} in Bay-Area freeways.
% }
\mycventry{May'23}{\href{}{Sentence Generation with Transformers(BERT)}}{
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Parsing, removing stop-words, \textbf{preprocessing} of sentences on large public \textbf{dataset of 196,640 books} in plain text\\
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Studied effect of network \textbf{hyper parameters} including embedding, hidden layer size, num layers, and learning rate\\
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Efficient implementation of masking to support \textbf{variable sentence length} during \textbf{training and evaluation on GPUs}\\
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} The top model had the lowest \textbf{perplexity(PP)=3.4} while its rivals perplexity ranged form \textbf{5} to \textbf{10}
}
\mycventry{Nov'22}{\href{}{Sentiment Analysis of tweets using Transformers(XLNet)}}{
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Tokenization, stemming, lemmatisation and preprocessing on public \textbf{Sentiment140} containing \textbf{1.6 million tweets}\\
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Fine tuned \textbf{large language models} from \textbf{Hugging Face} such as \textbf{BERT} and \textbf{XLNet} to extract word embeddings\\
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Achieved \textbf{95\%} recognition recall with \textbf{BERT} and \textbf{88\%} recall with \textbf{XLNet}.
}
\mycventry{Jun'22}{\href{}{Multi-Camera Object Trajectory Forecasting}}{
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Data cleaning, transformation, and camera calibration on \textbf{large private dataset} for an \textbf{industry partner}(Transplan)\\
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Fine-tuned \textbf{deep learning} based \textbf{re-ID}, multiple \textbf{object detection}, and \textbf{tracking models} on private dataset\\
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Implemented an \textbf{open-source} software to annotate and \textbf{visualize} resulting object trajectories on the ground plane\\
    % {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Estimated camera extrinsic in intrinsic to reproject bbox centers on the intersection ground plane\\
    % {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Optimized a novel dynamic programming 2D curve matching algorithm to estimate trajectory similarity\\
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Efficient \textbf{distributed training and inference} of deep learning object-trackers on \textbf{multiple GPUs} on the server\\
    {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Improved \textbf{MOT CLEAR metric} by \textbf{2\%} and enhanced trajectory classification accuracy from \textbf{80\%} to \textbf{97\%}
}

% \mycventry{Feb'22}{\href{}{CitiBike(NYC Bike Share) Data Analytics}}{
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Explored, analyzed, and processed over \textbf{10 years of trip data(>100GB)} to suggest expansion strategy\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Modeled Data into dense graphs to provide innovative solutions to \textbf{reduce maintenance cost by 5\%}\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Converted raw data into processed and formatted features to be used for machine learning algorithms
% }

% \mycventry{Nov'20}{\href{}{Natural Scene Synthesis with Deep Generative Models}}{
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Succeeded in building high performance generative models(GANs) to synthesis CIFAR10 dataset\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Compared DC-GAN, CGAN, AC-GAN, real-NVP on generated results and real data\\
%     {\scriptsize $\bullet$} Compared the effect of different cost-functions and optimizers on synthesis quality
% }\smallskip

% \mycventry{July'21}{\href{}{Machine Translation Using Transformers}}{
%     - fine tuned transformer-based models(BERT) for English to Persion translation
%     - 
%     }
% \mycventry{Jul'18--Jul'19}{Vice chair, IEEE UT Student Branch}{- Organized the student branch's different sections and managed the exec team}
% \mycventry{Jul'18--Aug'18}{IoT Academy $4^{th}$ Summer School, University of Tehran Science \& Technology Park}{With subject of "Internet of Things Rapid Prototyping from A to Z"}



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% \cventry{\scriptsize 2018--2020}{\mdseries \textcolor{E2Color}{Certificate in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran}}{ \scriptsize \textcolor{E3Color}{GPA: 18.2/20.00}}{}{}{}\smallskip
% 

% \cventry{2021--2023}{MSc in Computer Science, York University \qquad GPA: 8.66/9}{}
% \cventry{2016--2021}{BSc in Electrical Engineering, University of Tehran \qquad GPA: 3.77/4}{}
% \cventry{2018--2020}{Minor Degree in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran \qquad GPA: 18.2/20}{}
% \mycventry{2012--2016}{Diploma in Mathematics and Physics, NODET Allameh Helli 8 Branch}{National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents \\ GPA: 19.73/20}
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        \cventry{\scriptsize 2021--2023}{\mdseries \textcolor{E2Color}{MSc in Computer Science, York University}}{}{}{}{}
        \cventry{\scriptsize 2016--2021}{\mdseries \textcolor{E2Color}{BSc in Electrical Eng, University of Tehran}}{}{}{}{}
        \SectionTight{TECHNICAL SKILLS}
        {\small
        \cvitem{Languages}{Python{\tiny(advance)}, C++{\tiny(advance)}, C, MATLAB, Bash Script}
        \cvitem{Tools}{Pytorch, Tensorflow, Sklearn, NLTK, HuggingFace}
        % \cvitem{Tools}{Pytorch, Tensorflow, Sklearn, Numpy, NLTK, OpenCV}
        % \cvitem{Tools}{Pandas, HuggingFaces}
        % \cvitem{Softwares}{MATLAB, \LaTeX, Office programs, Quartus, NI Multisim, Codevision, Proteus}
        % \cvitem{Digital Devices}{AVR ATmeg series, Raspberry Pi3, Arduino}
        % \cvitem{OS.s}{Linux, Windows, macOS}
        }
        % \cventry{\scriptsize 2018--2020}{\mdseries \textcolor{E2Color}{Minor in Computer Eng, University of Tehran}}{}{}{}{}
        
        \SectionTight{AWARDS}
        \faltcventry{2022}{VISTA Graduate Scholarship, CVR}
        \faltcventry{2021}{Vector Scholarship in AI, Vector Institute}
        \faltcventry{2021}{Lassonde Entrance Scholarship, York University}
        \faltcventry{2018}{Founders Scholarship, University of Tehran}
        % \faltcventry{2018}{Founders Scholarship, University of Tehran}

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    % \cvitem{May 2021}{VISTA Graduate Scholarship, Vision: Science to Application}
% \cvitem{Oct 2017}{Ranked $93^{th}$ worldwide in IEEEXtreme 11.0 amongst 2121 teams}
% \cvitem{Nov 2017}{Silver medal in basketball competitions, $16^{th}$ student sport festival, University of Tehran}
% \cvitem{Nov 2016}{Gold medal in basketball competitions, $15^{th}$ student sport festival, University of Tehran}
% \cvitem{Jul 2016}{Ranked 600th in Iranian University Entrance Exam among 162879 participants(top 0.36\%)}
% \cvitem{Nov 2011}{Gold medal in basketball competitions, city of Tehran's inter-secondary school sport festival}

% \mycventry{Nov 2017}{Silver medal in basketball competitions, $16^{th}$ student sport festival, University of Tehran}{}
% \mycventry{Nov 2016}{Gold medal in basketball competitions, $15^{th}$ student sport festival, University of Tehran}{}
% \mycventry{Jul 2016}{Placed among top $0.36 \%$ high school students in Iran National University Entrance Exam}{}
% \mycventry{Nov 2011}{Gold medal in basketball competitions, city of Tehran's inter-secondary school sport festival}{}

% \SectionTight{INTERESTS}
% {\small
% Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Generative Models
% }

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%\section{Masters Thesis}

%\cvitem{Title}{\emph{Technologies and characterization of ferroelectric polymers for biomedical sensors}}
%\cvitem{Supervisors}{Professor Antonino Fiorillo}
%\cvitem{Description}{This thesis is based on the implementation of a temperature sensor.}

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%	WORK EXPERIENCE SECTION
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% \mycventry{April'21}{\href{}{Sentiment Analysis with BERT and XLNet}}{Used transformer-based embedding to detect hate speech}
% \mycventry{Murch'21}{\href{}{Sentence Classification with Ngrams}}{Used perplexity of an interpolated unigram-bigram language model for classification}
% \mycventry{June'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Twitter-Sentiment-Analysis-HMM}{Twitter Sentiment Analysis}}{Used Hidden Markov Model to formulate a classifier on twits}
% \mycventry{September'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Auxiliary-Classifier-GAN}{Auxiliary Classifier Generative Adversarial Network (ACGAN)}}{Implemented an ACGAN using Keras on CIFAR10 dataset}
% \mycventry{August'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Conditional-GAN}{Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN)}}{Implemented a CGAN using Keras on CIFAR10 dataset}
% \mycventry{December'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/nlp_naive_bayes}{Poem Classification}}{Used NLP methods such as bag-of-words to develop a bayes classifier for poetry}
% \mycventry{July'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Deep-Convolutional-GAN}{Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN)}}{Implemented a DCGAN using Keras on CIFAR10 dataset}
% \mycventry{June'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Variational-Auto-Encoder}{Variational Auto Encoder (VAE)}}{Used Kullback-Leibler Divergance cost to tarin a VAE on MNIST dataset}
% \mycventry{June'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Digital_Communication_Lab}{Digital Communication Simulator}}{Implemented transmitter and receiver for several digital modulations such as pam, psk, fsk, etc all of which support differentiation coding and pulse-shape selection}
% \mycventry{May'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Pollution-Predicttion}{Pollution Prediction}}{Implemented several recurrent networks using different cells such as LSTM and GRU}
% \mycventry{May'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/German-Traffic-Sign-Recognition-Benchmark}{German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark}}{Used deep convolutional NNs to classify traffic signs used in germany}
% \mycventry{July'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/DBSCAN-vs-Kmeans}{DBSCAN vs Kmeans}}{A rough comparison between two clustering algorithms and the advantages DBSCAN provides}
% \mycventry{July'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/bbox-clustering}{Boundary Box clustering}}{Performed Kmeans clustering on PASCAL VOC dataset with IOU distance}
% \mycventry{July'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Image-Compression-Kmeans}{Image Compression}}{Used Kmeans clustering to substitute centroids with corresponding pixels}
% \mycventry{April'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Mechanism-Based-Neural-Nerworks}{Mechanism Based Neural Networks}}{Implemented some basic mechanism based NNs like SOM, MaxNet, MexicanHat and Hamming Net}
% \mycventry{April'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Memory-Associative-Networks}{Memory Associative Neural Networks}}{From scratch implementation of Auto-associative, Iterative Auto-associative and Hetro-associative nets}
% \mycventry{Mar'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/SeperationIndex_for_CNN}{Separation Index trends in Fully Convolutional Networks}}{Computed published separation metrics to examine feature flow through layers of CNNs}
% \mycventry{March'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Madeline_MLP}{Many Adaptive Linear Neuron (MADALINE)}}{From scratch implementation of ADALINE and MADALINE}
% \mycventry{February'20}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Character_Classifer_MLP}{Multi Layer Perceptron (MLP)}}{From scratch implementation of MLP to classify written characters}
% \mycventry{September'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/American_Sign_Language}{American Sign Language Translation}}{Combined CNNs and RNNs alongside to develop an alphabet-level language translator}
% \mycventry{August'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Object_Localization}{Localize Fish Instances on the Boat}}{implemented YOLO2 network to localize fishes while specifying their breeds}
% \mycventry{July'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/HumpbackWhale_Identification}{Humpback Whale Identification}}{Used CNNs to develope an identification system based-on whales' tails}
% \mycventry{June'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/speech_identification}{Speech Identification in MEL Spectrum}}{studied the effect of MEL transformation on speech identification with NNs}
% \mycventry{June'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/FaceRecognition}{Face Recognition}}{Used the siamese network alongside with triple-loss cost function on AT\&T dataset}
% \mycventry{October'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/SVM}{Retail Classification}}{A kernelized support vector machine was used to address the problem}
% \mycventry{October'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/PCA_LDA}{Principal component analysis (PCA)}}{From scratch implementation of PCA scheme for dimension reduction}
% \mycventry{October'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/PCA_LDA}{Linear discriminant analysis (LDA)}}{From scratch implementation of LDA scheme for dimension reduction}
% \mycventry{November'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/parzen_window}{Parzen window}}{One of the major non-parametric pdf estimation methods used in a bayes optimal classifier}
% \mycventry{November'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/random_forest}{Random Forest}}{Used boosting and bagging to develope Random Forest model from predefined Decision Tree classifier }
% \mycventry{December'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/minimax}{MiniMax}}{Implemented the minimax adversarial approach for a sample zero-mean game}
% \mycventry{December'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/pacman}{Pacman}}{Used heuristic based agents as the back logic for Pacman game}


% \mycventry{September'18}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/AP_Drive}{AP Drive}}{A File Hosting Service inspired by Drop Box using C++ with a web based GUI}
% \mycventry{October'18}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/Mafia}{Mafia Game}}{A CLI based game designed according to OO paradigm using C++}
% \mycventry{November'18}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/OnlineStore}{Online Store}}{Object Oriented modeling a virtual store to manage trades and transactions of goods using C++}
% \mycventry{December'18}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/kingdomrush}{Kingdom Rush}}{A tower-defense game implemented by Simple DirectMedia Layer(SDL) graphical library using C++}

% \mycventry{September'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/synchronization_using_mutex_locks}{Synchronization by Mutex Lock}}{An object oriented implementation to synchronize multiple processes}
% \mycventry{October'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/multiprocess_ensemble_learning}{Multiprocess ensemble learning}}{Used multiprocessing to implement ensemble linear classifiers}
% \mycventry{November'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/xv6}{XV6}}{Added several features to the original XV6 operating system designed in MIT, such as paging, reentrance locks, new system-calls and new scheduling schemes}
% \mycventry{December'19}{\href{https://github.com/SajjadPSavoji/client-server_and_P2P_communication-}{Hybrid File Sharing}}{Implemented a file sharing application that supports both client-server and peer-2-peer methods}


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%	Teaching Experience section
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% \section{TEACHING ASSISTANT EXPERIENCES}
% \mycventry{Sep'22--Dec'22}{Design and Analysis of algorithms, York University}
% {
%     - held in-person tutorials and graded assignments 
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hQXlVLsAAAAJ}{\underline{Shahin Kamali}, Assist.Prof, York University}
% }
% \mycventry{Sep'20--Dec'22\\\textbf{\footnotesize graduate course}}{Neural Networks and Deep Learning (4 semesters), University of Tehran}
% {
%     - designed the final project regarding Generative Adversarial Networks
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=m7xdmMgAAAAJ}{\underline{Ahmad Kalhor}, Assoc.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }
% \mycventry{Jan'22--Apr'22\\\textbf{\footnotesize graduate course}}{Data Mining, York University}
% {
%     - graded projects, assignment, and exams
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Habib-Ur-Rehman-14}{\underline{Habib-ur Rehman}, Adjunct Prof, McMaster University}
% }
% \mycventry{Sep'21--Nov'21}{Software Tools, York University}
% {
%     - held hands-on sessions and grading projects
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://ca.linkedin.com/in/huiwang0123}{\underline{Hui Wang}, Reasearch Assoc, York University}
% }
% \mycventry{Sep'20--Feb'21\\\textbf{\footnotesize graduate course}}{Machine Learning (2 semesters), University of Tehran}
% {
%     - held hands-on session, designed assignments
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=FTcata0AAAAJ}{\underline{Babak Nadjar Araabi}, Prof, University of Tehran}
% }
% \mycventry{Feb'20--Jun'20}{Teaching assistant for Pattern Recognition \textbf{(graduate-level course)}}{Held hands-on session, designed 2 homeworks and marked them, designed 3 quizzes and marked them, graded their final project, suggested questions for midterm and final exam}
% \mycventry{Feb'20--Jun'20\\\textbf{\footnotesize graduate course}}{Pattern Recognition, University of Tehran}
% {
%     - held hands-on session, designed 2 homeworks and 3 quizzes
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/~dehaqani}{\underline{Mohammadreza Abolghasemi}, Asst.Prof,  University of Tehran}
% }
% \mycventry{Sep'20--Feb'21}{Intelligent systems, University of Tehran}
% {
%     - designed 6 final projects and marked them, individual assessment
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zqa4EY0AAAAJ&hl=en}{\underline{Reshad Hoseini}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }
% \mycventry{Feb'20--Feb'21\\\textbf{\footnotesize graduate course}}{Digital Signal Processing (3 semesters), University of Tehran}
% {
%     - designed 4 CAs, one analytical assignment and organized other TAs
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Yqzkf3UAAAAJ}{\underline{Hadi Amiri}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}\\
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VspDmN8AAAAJ&hl=en}{\underline{Majid Badieirostami}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}\\
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=atXIykYAAAAJ&hl=en}{\underline{Mohammadali Akhaee}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }
% \mycventry{Feb'20--Jun'20}{Teaching assistant for Digital Signal Processing}{Desinged 2 computer assignments and a homework}
% \mycventry{Sep'19--Feb'21}{TA, Communication Systems I (3 semesters), University of Tehran}
% {
%     \emph{Obligation:} designed 4 homeworks all of which include implementation part and 4 CAs, assessed students
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fCts8c0AAAAJ&hl=en}{\underline{Maryam Sabaghian}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}\\
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Yqzkf3UAAAAJ}{\underline{Hadi Amiri}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }

% \mycventry{Feb'20--Jun'20}{Teaching assistant for Communication Systems I}{Desined a computer assignment, assesed their performance via interview sessions}
% \mycventry{Sep'19--Feb'20}{Teaching assistant for Communication Systems I}{Desined 3 computer assignments, assesed their programming skills individually}

% \mycventry{Feb'19--Feb'20}{Engineering Probability and Statistics (2 semesters), University of Tehran}
% {
%     - designed homeworks and computer assignments, held Q\&A session
%     % \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/~dehaqani}{\underline{Mohammadreza Abolghasemi}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }
% \mycventry{Feb'19--Jun'19}{Teaching assistant for Engineering Probability and Statistics}{Designed homeworks, held Q\&A session, marked their homeworks}
% \mycventry{Feb'19--Jun'19}{TA, Electronics I}
% {
%     \emph{Obligation:} marked student's homeworks, mentored them in the problem-solving procedure\\
%     \emph{Instructor:} \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=T7fVw08AAAAJ}{\underline{Mohammadreza Kolahdooz}, Asst.Prof, University of Tehran}
% }






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%	certification and workshops
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% \section{CERTIFICATES}
% {\small
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% \cvitem{January 2022}{\href{https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/XC3RQE34YAXS}{Build Better Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Coursera Credential: XC3RQE34YAXS}}
% \cvitem{January 2022}{\href{https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/J4YEGV3VWSQ3}{Sample-based Learning Methods, Coursera Credential: J4YEGV3VWSQ3}}
% \cvitem{Novermber 2021}{\href{https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/B9M4EX5HRXG3}{Build Basic Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), Coursera Credential: B9M4EX5HRXG3}}
% \cvitem{October 2021}{\href{https://www.coursera.org/account/accomplishments/certificate/DMPL7YR2KURX}{Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning, Coursera Credential: DMPL7YR2KURX}}
% \cvitem{Oct 18 - Oct 20}{Ambassador for IEEEXtreme 12.0, 13.0, and 14.0 Programming Competition}
% \cvitem{January 2020}{Contributed as a Statistical Inference Instructor in IEEEUTSB Data Science Winter School}
% \cvitem{February 2019}{Participated in the international workshop on "signal proccessing" held in Sharif University of Technology}
% \cvitem{April 2019}{Ambassador for IEEEmadC Competition}
% \cvitem{October 2019}{Contibuted as an Ambassador in IEEEXtreme 13.0 Programming Competition}
% \cvitem{August 2018}{Attended IoT Academy $4^{th}$ Summer School}
% \cvitem{October 2018}{Contibuted as an Ambassador in IEEEXtreme 12.0 Programming Competition}
% \cvitem{September 2017}{Attended MATLAB programming course, held by IEEEUTSB}
% \cvitem{May 2017}{Attended AVR Microcontroller course, held by IEEEUTSB}
% \par}

% \section{Volunteering}
% {\small
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% \cvitem{Dec 21 - Dec 22}{Student representative, Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence}
% \cvitem{Apr 19 - Apr 20}{Ambassador for IEEEmadC Competition}
% \cvitem{Oct 18 - Oct 20}{Ambassador for IEEEXtreme Programming Competition (12.0, 13.0, and 14.0)}
% \par}


%\section{Major Courses Undertaken}

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%\cvitem{Computer Science}{ Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Artificial Intelligence, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Theory of Computation, Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Database Management System, Computer Architecture, Discrete Mathematics, Data Structures.
%}

%\cvitem{Mathematics}{ Statistical Methods, Probability, Differential Calculus, Linear Algebra, Matrix Theory, Complex Analysis, Vector Calculus.
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%	COMMUNICATION SKILLS SECTION
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    %\section{Communication Skills}

    %\cvitem{2010}{Oral Presentation at the California Business Conference}
    %\cvitem{2009}{Poster at the Annual Business Conference in Oregon}

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    %	LANGUAGES SECTION
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%     \section{LANGUAGES}

%     \cvitemwithcomment{English}{Professional Profiency {\footnotesize{(IELTS 8.0)}}}{}
% \cvitemwithcomment{Persian/Farsi}{Native}{}
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%	INTERESTS SECTION
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%  \section{REFERENCES}
%     \begin{minipage}[t]{0.33 \textwidth}
%         \footnotesize
%         \href{https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/~akalhor}{\textbf{Ahmad Kalhor}
%         }\\
%         Assoc. Professor\\
%         University of Tehran\\
%         Deep Learning\\
%         \href{mailto:akalhor@ut.ac.ir}{{\tiny \faEnvelopeO} akalhor@ut.ac.ir}
%     \end{minipage}
%     \begin{minipage}[t]{0.33 \textwidth}
%         \footnotesize
%         \href{https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/~reshad.hosseini}{\textbf{reshad hosseini}
%         }\\
%         Asst. Professor\\
%         University of Tehran\\
%         Machine Intelligence and Robotics\\
%         \href{mailto:reshad.hosseini@ut.ac.ir}{{\tiny \faEnvelopeO} reshad.hosseini@ut.ac.ir}
%     \end{minipage}
%     \begin{minipage}[t]{0.33 \textwidth}
%         \footnotesize
%         \href{https://ece.ut.ac.ir/en/~dehaqani}{\textbf{Mohammadreza Abolghasemi}
%         }\\
%         Asst. Professor\\
%         University of Tehran\\ 
%         Machine Intelligence and Robotics\\
%         \href{mailto:dehaqani@ut.ac.ir}{{\tiny \faEnvelopeO} dehaqani@ut.ac.ir}
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