Resume

Michigan State University - PhD in Structural Engineering

Thesis: Implementation of NMR Spectroscopy and Relaxometry towards Detection and Evaluation of Concrete Deterioration.

Michigan State University - MS in Pavement and Transportation

Thesis: Impact of Design Inputs for Overlay Design in Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide.

University of Tehran - BS in Civil Engineering

Project: Numerical analysis of repaired reinforced concrete numerically under monotonic loading and bonded concrete overlay under restrained shrinkage for two large customers using Finite Element Method

Classifying Damage Type in Concrete Structures

Identifying and classifying damage types and severity of deterioration mechanism in transportation infrastructure using machine learning

Quick Predictions of Pavement Performance

Ranking design input variables for national pavement design software suite (ASHTOWare Pavement ME) and quick predictions of pavement performance using neural network

Analyzing Students Completion Rate in the United States

3800 degree-granting institution in the United States are analyzed to understand the graduation rate within varius demographics

Data Scientist

Developed end-to-end scalable machine learning models for equity investing and trading; employing linear regression and time series analysis, yielding 35%+ return on investment

Derived actionable insights by munging large financial data sets with minimal support

Interacted regularly with portfolio manager and clients to meet the clients’ broad range of investment needs

Data Science Fellow

Collected, cleaned, analyzed, and modeled 3GB of data to predict college graduation rates in the US with 5% accuracy using Random Forest

Mastered skills in Python, SQL, data analysis, data visualization, hypothesis testing, and machine learning

530+ hours of hands-on curriculum, with 1:1 industry expert

Associate Professor of Engineering

Taught MATLAB for programming and numerical analysis and computer-aided drafting among others.

Coached student for H2O Hackathon and SkillsUSA

Reviewed college revenues and expenditures, proposed budget adjustments, saving $2 million in 2018-19 fiscal year

Research & Developement Scientist

Spearheaded a $1 million project 10% under budget, contributed to 4 $1 million projects

Published a patent, generated 100+ technical reports, gave presentations to public & private clients regularly

Research Engineer

Created a predictive model to forecast pavement long-term performance with 95% accuracy using ANN

Published 16 journal & conference papers

Certified Data Scientist by The Data Incubator

Machine Learning - Stanford University

Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp - Udemy

Tableau 10 – A-Z: Hands-On Tableau Training for Data Science - Udemy

The Data Scientist’s Toolbox - Johns Hopkins University

R Programming - Johns Hopkins University

Getting and Cleaning Data - Johns Hopkins University

SQL – MySQL for Data Analytics and Business Intelligence - Udemy

Data Manipulation in Python - Udemy

GitHub Ultimate: Master Git and GitHub - Udemy