B OBAK J ACK M ORTAZAVI
*** ******* ******* #*** 510-***-****
Los Angeles, CA 90024 abpnm7@r.postjobfree.com
O BJECTIVE
Internship in research and development in machine learning and/or hardware development
E DUCATION
University of California Los Angeles; Los Angeles, CA Cumulative GPA 3.791
Intended Degree: Ph.D. Computer Science
University of California Irvine; Irvine, CA GPA 3.972
M .S . Electrical and Computer Engineering June 2009
University of California Berkeley; Berkeley, CA GPA 3.291
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science May 2007
B.A. Applied Mathematics (with Specialization in Computer Science)
Minor Near Eastern Studies (with Specialization in Persian)
PROGRAMMING Java C/C++/C#
LANGUAGES Verilog and VHDL Scheme/Lisp
Matlab Objective-C/Cocoa
Cuda Python
RELEVANT Operating Systems Efficient Algorithms & Intractable Problems
COURSES Computer Architecture & Engineering VLSI Systems Design
Approximation Algorithms Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
Wireless Health Online Algorithms
Fine-Grain Physical Activity Monitoring (UCLA) Fall 2009 - Present
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Research and development of physical activity monitoring system for multi-class
similar movements
Development of online machine learning techniques
End applications of rehabilitation, exergaming, and sports training
Spinal Bridge on Spring 2011 Present
Field Programmable Gate Array (UCLA)
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) implementation of Support Vector Machine
for treatment of paralyzed rats
Fine-Grain Synchronization & Communication Fall 2008 Spring 2009
in Multicore Processors (UCI)
Hardware synchronization primitives for multicore communication
Universal Content Router (Berkeley) Summer 2006 Spring 2007
Multimedia transcoding on an FPGA-based platform
T EACHING E XPERIENCE
Teaching Assistant UCLA CS 152A Introduction to Digital Design Winter 2012
UCLA CS 152B Digital Design Logic Lab Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Summer 2011
UCI EECS 12 Introduction to Programming Winter 2009
UCB CS 3 Introduction to Symbolic Programming Fall 2005-Spring 2007
Course Instructor for Mac OS X software development Fall 2005 Fall 2006
L ANGUAGES
English, Farsi (Persian)
French (Conversational)
P ATENTS
(Pending) UCLA Case 2010-432-1 Sarrafzadeh M., Hagopian H., Mortazavi, J.B., Probabilistic
Algorithm for Proper Kick Detection Filed December 2009 Full Patent Filed January 2011
(Pending) UCLA Case 2012-106 Sarrafzadeh M., Mortazavi, J.B., Li, X., Chu, K., Near-Realistic
Sports Motion and Analysis UCLA Invention Disclosure Submitted September 2011.
C ONFERENCE PUBLICATI ONS
Mortazavi, B., Woodbridge, J., Chu, K.C., Sarrafzadeh, M. (2012) Fine-Grain Activity Classification.
AAAI 2012 (Submitted for review)
Mortazavi, B., Chu, K.C., Li, X., Tai, J., Kotekar, S., Sarrafzadeh, M. (2012) Near-Realistic Motion
Video Games with Enforced Activity. International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN)
(Submitted for review)
Mortazavi, B., Hagopian, H., Woodbridge, J., Yadegar, B., Sarrafzadeh, M. (2011) A Wireless Body-
Wearable Sensor System of Designing Phyiscally Interactive Video Games. Proceedings of the
International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices (BIODEVICES 2011).
J OURNAL P UBLICATIONS
Lee, S.I., Mortazavi, B., Nahapetian, A., Sarrafzadeh, M. (2012) Grip Strength Tracking System with
Remote Healthcare Functionality for Mobility Assessment of Movement Disorders. ACM
Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology Special Issue on Intelligent Systems for Health
Informatics (Submitted for review)
2