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Data Scientist
University of Rochester• January 2018 - Present
• Simon Business School Department: Conduct textual analysis of subsections of extracted 10-K annual reports to determine investment risks for a broad sample of publicly-listed firms using topic modeling via Python’s nltk and gensim libraries • Rush Rhees Library Research Lab: Develop models for understanding and predicting research performance strength for 23 universities in Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) including using Python and information extracted from Dimensions, SPIN, and SciVal websites Utilize “gensim” library in Python to do topic modeling with the LDA algorithm and better understand research topics and subjects that WUN universities have been recognized for • Center for Integrated Research Computing: Optimize utilization of the Center for Research Computing's high-performance super-computing cluster through the application of data scientist methodology on University of Rochester server data using Python
IT Consultant
University of Rochester• September 2018 - Present
Interface with university constituents and apply technical knowledge to resolve concerns and questions as they relate to IT Center
Researcher
Amirkabir University • February 2017 - April 2018
• Utilized Python and Twitter data stream to help predict 2017 Iran’s Presidential Election based on “Predicting Elections from Social Networks Based on Sub-Event Detection and Sentiment Analysis” paper • Collected data using python “tweepy” library and applied “hazm”, a Farsi NLP tool, on collected data for preprocessing • Tasked to implement hierarchical clustering on the messages collected from Twitter to predict the number of sub-event
Project Operational Support
Vahid Think Futurity• October 2015 - July 2016
• Served as project lead working with technical startups, coordinated meetings, and communicated with management • Improved user experience by designing and developing an Android app, created a weblog that helped connect consultants to clients, created contracts with companies, brainstormed with my consultant team to develop and present branding strategies
Education
University of Rochester
Data Science, MS• August 2018 - December 2019
GPA: 3.87 Academic Projects: • Designing a Recommendation engine implementation for Paychex company using k-modes and AlS algorithms • Utilized SVM, PCA and Keras Neural Network for human activity recognition classification problem • Awarded in LEC Challenge to detect faulty observations for sensors using different classification methods in Python • Implemented Apriori and FP-growth algorithms as data mining project to find most related features (columns) in the given dataset • Applied advanced regression techniques such as Lasso, GBoost, XGBoost, and Kernel Ridge to predict housing prices
Islamic Azad University, Qazvin
Industrial Engineering , BS• September 2011 - September 2015
GPA: 3.96
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