I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo under the supervision of Prof. Alexander Wong. I received my Ph.D. under supervision of Prof. Alexander Wong and Prof. Paul Fieguth. My Bachelor’s degree is in Computer Science and Engineering from Shiraz University in Iran in 2008 and I received my my master degree in Artificial Intelligent in 2011 from same university.

Currently, I am working on efficient deep learning methods for embedded systems with application on autonomous driving cars, traffic monitoring and healthcare. 

My PhD thesis topic was about introducing a “Randomly-connected Non-Local Conditional Random Fields” to address long-range spatial connectivity while maintaining computational complexity. 

My master thesis was focused on A Novel Conditional Random Field Framework For Object Tracking supervised by Prof. Zohreh Azimifar.