Assistant High School

Majid Yazdani

Idiap Research Institute http://majid.yazdani.me/

Centre du Parc

Rue Marconi 19

CH - 1920 Martigny

Switzerland

majid.yazdani@epfl/idiap.ch

Research Interest and Expertise

Algorithmic and Statistical Machine Learning applied to Large (Social) Network Analysis, Natural Language

Processing, Information Retrieval and System design.

EDUCATION

PhD, Computer Science

EPFL/Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland. 2009 - 2013

Course work: 5.77/6

Thesis :

Similarity Learning Over Large Collaborative Networks [.pdf],

Advisers: Prof.Herve Bourlard and Dr.Andrei Popescu-Belis

Committee: Dr.Samy Bengio, Dr.Jean-Cdric Chappelier, Prof.Andreas Krause

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. 2003- 2008

Thesis :

Website classification using Extended Hidden Markov Model (19.75/20)

Work Experiences

Postdoctoral Researcher, Idiap research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland March 2013- now

Building a matlab toolbox for “Learning on large networked data”

Research Assistant, Idiap research Institute, Martigny, Switzerland 2009- February 2013

Research Assistant : Web Intelligence laboratory, Sharif University of Technology 2007-2008

PUBLICATIONS (Chronological)

Hassan Ghasemzadeh Mohammadi, Pierre-Emmanuel Gaillardon, Majid Yazdani, Giovanni De Micheli.

A Fast TCAD-based Methodology for Variation Analysis of Emerging Nano-Devices. IEEE International

Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, 2013. [.pdf]

Majid Yazdani, Andrei Popescu-Belis. Joint Similarity Learning for Predicting Links in Networks with

Multiple-type Links. Idiap-RR Idiap-Internal-RR-64-2012, Submitted, 2013.[.pdf]

Majid Yazdani, Ronan Collobert, Andrei Popescu-Belis. Similarity Learning for Collective Ranking on

Networks: Application to Link Prediction. Mining and Learning with Graphs, 2013.[.pdf]

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Majid Yazdani and Andrei Popescu-Belis. Computing text semantic relatedness using the contents and

links of a hypertext encyclopedia, will appear in proceedings of IJCAI: 23rd International Joint Conference

of Artificial Intelligence, (2013 pdf]

Majid Yazdani and Andrei Popescu-Belis. Computing text semantic relatedness using the contents and

links of a hypertext encyclopedia, Artificial Intelligence 194 (2013), 176–202.[.pdf]

Majid Yazdani and Andrei Popescu-Belis. Using a wikipedia-based semantic relatedness measure for doc-

ument clustering. In Proceedings of TextGraphs-6: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing,

pages 29–36, Portland, Oregon, 2011. Association for Computational Linguistics.[.pdf]

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Majid Yazdani, Alexandre Nanchen, and Philip N. Garner. A speech-based just-

in-time retrieval system using semantic search. In Proceedings of ACL Systems Demonstrations (the 49th

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies), pages

80–85, 2011.[.pdf]

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Majid Yazdani, Alexandre Nanchen, and Philip N. Garner. A just-in-time

document retrieval system for dialogues or monologues. In Proceedings of SIGDIAL, 2011.[.pdf]

Majid Yazdani and Andrei Popescu-Belis. A random walk framework to compute textual semantic

similarity: A unified model for three benchmark tasks. In Proceedings of ICSC ’10 (the 2010 IEEE Fourth

International Conference on Semantic Computing), pages 424–429, Washington, DC, USA, 2010. [.pdf]

Majid Yazdani, Milad Eftekhar, and Hassan Abolhassani. Tree-based method for classifying websites

using extended hidden markov models. In Proceedings of PAKDD ’09 (the 13th Pacific-Asia Conference on

Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), pages 780–787, 2009. [.pdf]

Teaching Experiences

• Co-Supervised a Master Project on “topic modeling vs. semi-structured knowledge sources”: EPFL,

Switzerland, 2012

• Teaching Assistant : Computer Simulation Fall 2007, Mathematics Department, Sharif University of

technology

COMPUTER AND LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Programming Languages: Proficient in java, MATLAB, R, C, Python, C++, Lua, Prolog, Verilog, Motorolla 68000 assembly language, JSP, PHP, Django

• Simulation & Synthesis Environments: PGen (Parser Generator), Boson Network Designer, FPGA

application software: QUARTUS II, NS2

• Data Base Management system: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB

• Languages : Persian (Mother tongue), English (fluent), Arabic (familiar/reading), French (beginner)

Coursework

• EPFL: Machine Learning, Learning and Geometry, Statistical Sequence Processing, Probabilistic

Graphical models, Computational linguistics, Advanced algorithms, Link Mining and Dynamic Net-

work Analysis

• Sharif University of Technology : Computational Logic, AI Planning, Data Mining, Compiler

Design, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Simulation, Advanced Information retrieval, Probability and

statistics, Algorithm design

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Micellaneous

• Human-Intelligence routing of questions in web: Human acquaintance network forms a small-world

network, which can be used to find the community of experts for any question. BulbMeBack.com is

an on-demand social network forming for each specific question to find the experts by using human

intelligence routing of the questions.

• Online Planning under Uncertainty Trading Algorithm: The online algorithm maximizes the benefit

given the current portfolio and uncertain assumptions about the market. The algorithm has been

running since 2011 on live data and showed promising results.

• One year studying chemistry at last year of high school, resulting in entrance to national Young Scholars

Club and silver medal in national chemistry olympiad.

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