Education:

• Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering), The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Texas, U.S.A.
  Topic: Speaker Modeling and Speech Recognition for Naturalistic Daily Audio Streams
  GPA: 4.0/4.0, Years: 2010 to Present
   

• M.S. (Electrical Engineering), Tehran Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran.
  Topic: Statistical Spoken Language Identification
  GPA: 3.9/4.0, Years: 2006 to 2009
   

• B.S. (Electrical Engineering), Tehran Polytechnic, Tehran, Iran.
  Topic: Hardware Implementation of an Isolated Word Speech Recognition System using DTW
  GPA: 3.4/4.0, Years: 2002 to 2006

Relevant Courses:

• Digital Signal Processing
•  Image Processing
•  Applications of Random Processes
•  Estimation & Filtering Theory
•  Mathematical Analysis on Large Data sets
•  Machine Learning
   

• Speech Recognition
•  Neural Networks
•  Advanced Real Analysis
•  Analysis of Time Series
•  Optimization theory
•  Speech Processing

Research interests:

• Statistical Signal Processing

• Speech and Speaker Recognition (On real massive data)

• Voice Activity Detection

• Language Identification

• Keyword Spotting

• Compressive Sensing