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Pooya Karimian

#701 - 5050 Halifax St.
Burnaby, BC V5B 2N5

Phone: 778-317-4392
URL: http://pooyak.com/
Email: me_(at)_pooyak.com

Education

Technical Skills

Programming Languages: C/C++, Perl, Python, Java.

Web Development: (X)HTML / CSS / JavaScript, Perl / PHP, XUL / Mozilla platform.

Linux / UNIX: Shell scripts, GNU tools, OS/Kernel, Network programming, Concurrent computing.

Administration: Linux, Windows, IP Networks, Internet-based services, MySQL databases.

Software Management: SubVersion, CVS.

Internationalization: Unicode, Bi-directional text, Localization.

Academic: Matlab, Prolog, LISP.

Control and Electronics: Robotics and AI, Embedded systems, Communication, Verilog HDL.

Professional Experiences

Senior Software Developer - Web Developer
Worio
2008-2009

  • Worio: developing the web frontend for a tag-based search and recommendation engine.

Software Developer
Sxip Identity
2007-2008

  • Sxipper: A Firefox add-on for managing user's identity information easily and in a secure way. Sxipper has several features including managing passwords, filling forms, and providing OpenID.

System Developer
Ghasedak Systems
2001-2004

  • Netbill: A multi ISP accounting and professional billing solution. Netbill is able to tolerate high load and large number of users and offers separate levels of resellers. Customizable at each level and is offered as a Linux-based appliance. Uses RADIUS AAA protocol, consisting of forking daemon, templatable web based interface and backend accounting database.
  • Developing dynamic sites such as e-Shops and web portals mostly on Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl platform.

Web Application Developer
Iranian Fuel Conservation Organization (Formerly IEEO)
2003-2004

  • Suppliers: A web-based application for managing and searching over resources and supplier companies.
  • CNG Stations: A web-based application used by Compressed Natural GAS stations to report daily reports of resources and usage data. Extensive data mining and graphical reports and features. This application is now being used nation-wide by all CNG stations.

Web Application Developer
AICTC, Sharif University of Technology
2001-2003

  • Automated News Portal: Content fetching and analysis from Internet news sources.
  • PDM: A domain monitoring and expiration alerting system.
  • Cabinet: Intranet file server and file search engine.

Software Developer
Olefin Group, Chemical Engineering Dept., Tarbiat Modarres University
2002-2003

  • Implementation of user interfaces for three chemical process simulators used to simulate chemical reactions in three major Iran petrochemical plants.
  • Developing a database for scanning, categorizing and searching research papers.

Web Application Developer
PeykAsa Group
2003

Administrator
Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology
1999-2003

  • Servers: Samba file server and file search. Simple CMS for handling web pages, web mail, course pages and user homepages.
  • Workstations: Authentication and remote management of Windows machines used by near 1000 users on a Linux server using Samba-TNG as backend.

Research Experiences

Researcher
Autonomy Lab., Simon Fraser University (Supervised by Dr. R.T. Vaughan)
2004-2006

  • ChatterBox: A self-maintaining swarm of minimalist robots with audio communication.
  • Sounds Good: Simulation and Evaluation of Audio Communication for Multi-Robot Exploration.
  • Player/Stage: Open-Source and Free Software tools for robot control and simulation. Different features including an audio propagation simulator was implemented for this package. Developed on SourceForge.
  • M.Sc. Thesis: Audio Communication for Multi-Robot Systems.

Research Assistant
Vision and Media Lab., Simon Fraser University (Supervised by Dr. G. Mori)
2005

  • Human Activity Recognition: Building systems that can find human figures in either still images or video sequences, and determine what action they are performing.

Research Assistant
Robotics and Automation Lab., Sharif University of Technology
2001-2003

  • Developing the vision system of Roboshark, a pool player robot (As part a of M.E. Alian M.Sc. Thesis. Supervised by Dr. S. Bagheri Shouraki and Dr. M. T. Manzuri).
  • Member of Sharif CESR research group working on a small sized soccer playing robots team. Our research focused on different aspects of robotics: Image Processing and Machine Vision, Multi Object Tracking for fast moving objects, Path Planning, Pattern Matching, Simulation and Prediction, Noise Filtering, Multi Agent Systems, Network Communication, Decision Making, Neural Networks (Supervised by Dr. M. T. Manzuri).
  • Participated in Robocup 2001, Seattle and Robocup 2002, Fokouka, Japan as a member of Sharif CESR team.
  • Member of SharifII (ParsAI) research group working on a robot soccer simulation team. Our research focused on: Multi Agent Systems, Planning, Machine Learning, and Behavior Based Robot Simulation.

Contestant
First Sharif FPGA Design Contest
2002

  • Design and Implementation of a Game Device: a game specific processor and graphics engine. Simulated and synthesized in Verilog HDL and implemented on an Altera FPGA.
  • Awarded best technical report for design of "Standalone Gaming Machine".

Teaching Experiences

  • Teaching Assistant: Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Web Information Systems
  • Lecturer: Computer lab. Linux, HTML and Web courses
  • Presenter: "Sounds Good" paper in IROS 2006 China, "PHP and MySQL" and "GNU/Linux" in First and Second Iranian Linux Users Gatherings

Publications

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