Maryam S. Mirian Robotics Lab., ECE Dept.,

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Tel./ Fax +98-21-801****

Email aca3vi@r.postjobfree.com

Homepage: http://maryam.mirian.ir

Born on March 21, 1977

Assistant Professor,

AI and machine learning department,

Current Position:

School of Electrical & Computer Engineering,

Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran.

Education:

Sep. 2004 – Sep. 2010 Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

GPA : 18.22

Thesis: Learning Attention Control in a Multi-modal Perceptual space

Doctoral Thesis Assessment: Excellent

M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Robotics and Machine Intelligence

Sep. 2000 –June 2003 Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

GPA: 18.78 / 20.00

Thesis : “Help Provision, a Mechanism to Improve the Fault-Tolerance

of Distributed Systems”, Grade : 20

B.Sc. in Computer Hardware Engineering

Sep. 1995 – July. 1999 Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

GPA: 15.89 /20.00

High School : Roshangar Complex

Physics & Mathematics Diploma, Roshangar high school, GPA 19.02/20

Sep.1991 – June 1995

Mixture of Experts Learning

Autonomous Robot learning

Learning under Uncertainty

Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning

Knowledge extraction, representation and transfer

[1] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak N. Araabi,

Learning Active Fusion of Multiple Experts' Decisions: An Attention-

based Approach, Neural Computation, MIT Press, Feburary 2011, Vol.

23, No. 2, Pages 558-591.

Selected Publications

[2] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak N. Araabi,

Mohammad M. Ajallooeian, “Learning with which Expert to Consult

Next, Case study: Arrythmia Diagnosis”, International Journal of

Innovative Computing, Information and Control (IJICIC), Volume 7,

Number 1, January 2011, pp. 289–299.

[3] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak N.Araabi,

Roland Siegwart, METAL: Mixture of Experts task and attention

learning, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy systems, Volume 23, Number

4/2012, pages 111-128.

[4] H. Firouzi, M. N. Ahmadabadi, B. N. Araabi, S. Amizadeh, M.

S. Mirian, and R. Siegwart, “Interactive Learning in Continuous

Multimodal Space: A Bayesian Approach to Action-Based Soft

Partitioning and Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental

Development, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 124–138, Jun. 2012.

[5] Maryam S. Mirian, Leila Beig, Mahmood Kharrat, A Unified

Multi-aspect Architecture to Establish Knowledge Network, IEEE

International Symposium on Telecom, IST2010, Tehran, Iran.

[6] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak N. Araabi,

Roland R. Siegwart, Comparing Learning Attention Control In

Perceptual and Decision Space, LNAI 5395, pp. 242 – 256, 2009,

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009.

[7] Maryam S. Mirian, Hadi Firouzi, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi,

Babak N. Araabi, Concurrent learning of Task and attention in the

decision space,IEEE/ASME Conference on Advanced Intelligent

Mechatronics, pp. 1353-1358, Singapore, 14-17 July 2009.

[8] Narges Noori, Majid Nili, Maryam S. Mirian, Babak Araabi,

Speeding up top-down attention control learning by using full

observation knowledge, 2009 IEEE International Symposium on

Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA), 15-18

Dec. 2009, pp: 369 - 374, Daejeon, Korea.

[9] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Hadi Firouzi,

Babak N. Araabi, and Roland R. Siegwart, A Novel Framework for

Learning Attention Control in a multi-dimensional sensory space, IEEE

IROS'08 Workshop on Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning II,

Sep. 2008, Niece, France.

[10] H.Vosughpour, M. Nili, Maryam S. Mirian, Hierarchical

Functional Concept Formation using Reinforcement Learning,

Proceeding of WCECS 2007, ICMLDA

[11] Maryam S. Mirian, Babak N. Araabi, Image Retrieval Using

image Query by means of color Histograms and Number of straight lines

of the image (In FARSI), 3rd Conf on Machine Vision and Image

Processing, pp 30-37, MVIP 2005, Iran, Tehran

[11] M.S. Mirian, M.R. Hejazi, E. Darrudi, Finding Answers

through Heuristic Reasoning Mechanism for an Ontology-based

Question Answering System, The Second workshop on

Information Technology & Its Desciplines, WITID 2004, Kish

Island, Iran.

[12] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, A Distributed

Deterministic Help Scheme to Improve the System Fault

Tolerance, World Automation Congress (WAC’04), 2004, Spain.

[13] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabad, "Application of

Task Redistribution in Non-Homogenous Multi-agent Systems to

Improve Fault Tolerance", 9th Annual Conference of Computer

Soceity of Iran, CSICC2004 (in FARSI)

[14] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabad, "A Multi-agent

Perspective to Fault Clearance", 8th Annual Conference of

Computer Soceity of Iran, CSICC2003 (in FARSI)

[15] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Babak Nadjar

Araabi, “A Fault Tolerant Multi-Agent System with Non-

Deterministic Decision-Making for Task Allocation”, Accepted in

ERSA'03, June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

[16] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Zainalabedin

Navabi, " A New Task Redistribution Method for Fault Clearing

in Multi-agent Systems", Proc. of IEEE International Conference

on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vol. 2, October 6-9, 2002,

Hammamet, Tunisia

[17] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Zainalabedin

Navabi, "Evaluating Task Redistribution Methods for Fault

Clearing in Multi-Agent Systems", ERSA'02, pp219-225, Las

Vegas, USA, May 2002

[18] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Zainalabedin

Navabi, "Agent's Role Reconfiguration Based on Decision-

Making for Distributed Fault Recovery in Multi Agent Systems",

AIM'02, Workshop of EURASIA-ICT 2002, pp 289-293, Shiraz,

Iran, Oct. 2002.

[19] Maryam S. Mirian, Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Zainalabedin

Navabi, "A Decision-Making based Approach for Fault-Handling

in Multi-Agent Systems”, ICONIP’02, Vol.4, pp 1905-1910,

Singapore, Nov. 2002.

[20] Mahmoudreza Hejazi, Maryam S. Mirian, Kourosh

Neshatian, Azam Jalali, and Bahadorreza Ofoghi, A

Telecommunication Literature Question/Answering System

Benefits from a Text Categorization Mechanism, International

Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering

(IKE2003), July 2003, USA.

Ranked 1st among 10 M.Sc. Students in Robotics and AI in ECE

Dept., Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran, 2003

Ranked 6th among 60 students in undergraduate level in

Hardware Engineering in ECE Dept., Faculty of Engineering,

Honors

University of Tehran, Iran, 1999

Ranked 535th among more than 300,000 applicants in National

Universities Entrance Exam in Iran), 1995

Working Experience

March 2001 – Oct2011 In: Iran Telecom. Research Center

Position Title: Faculty Member in Knowledge Management Research

Group

In: Nirou Research Institute, Network Control Group

April 1999 – March

Position Title: Research Assistant,

2000

Project: Distributed Control System

Teaching Experience

“Statistical Pattern Recognition” and “Artificial Intelligence” ” in

Fall Semester, 2012

University, Tehran, Iran ECE Dept., Faculty of Engineering, University

of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

“An Introduction to Intelligent systems” and “Decision support

Spring semester, 2012

systems” in University, Tehran, Iran ECE Dept., Faculty of Engineering,

University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

“Artificial Intelligence” in:

Fall Semester, 2010

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty, Shahid Beheshti

University

University, Tehran, Iran ECE Dept., Faculty of Engineering, University

Fall Semester, 2005

of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Teaching Assistance for Verilog and VHDL System Design, ECE Dept.,

Spring, Fall Semester

2000 – 2002 Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran,Tehran, Iran

Selected Researches and 2010- Present: Knowledge Network in ICT Organizations: The

Conceptual Model

Projects in ITRC

2008-2009: Designing the Ontology of e-Content in an e-

enterprise

2007-2008: Extending KHAN Framework for Organizational

Learning

2005: Developing a content-based Image Retrieval with regard

to Color and Shape, as the term project of Image Processing

course

2002-2005: Developing a Question Answering System named

TeLQAS1 with major focus on NLP, Query Processing, Text

Summarization and Categorization and Crawling from the web

2005, Using DNA Computing in DNA Security Applications, as

the term project of Network Security course

2005, Developing an Sport Video Classification system, as the

term project for Multimedia Systems course

Other Projects 2004, Proposing a New Task Assignment Strategy based on

Personal Motivation Theory, as the term project of Distributed

(Term Projects at the

AI and System Identification courses

University of Tehran)

2000, Developing a new fuzzy cache replacement algorithm, as

the term project of Fuzzy systems course

2000, Design and Implementation of the vision module of a

mobile robot2 designed for a Robot Contest.

Majid Nili Ahmadabadi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor and Head of Robotics and Machine Intelligence Group

School of Electrical and Computer Eng.

University of Tehran

PO Box 14395/515

Tehran, Iran

Email: aca3vi@r.postjobfree.com

Web: http://robotics.ut.ac.ir/People/MajidNili.aspx

References Babak N. Araabi, PhD

Associate Professor and Head of Control Systems Division

School of Electrical and Computer Eng.

University of Tehran

PO Box 14395/515

Tehran, Iran

Tel: +98-21-886*-****

Fax: +98-21-886*-****

Email: aca3vi@r.postjobfree.com

Web: http://eng.ut.ac.ir/ece/araabi/

1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeLQAS

2

The robot had 3 major responsibilities: 1) gathering red boxes and recognizing the

letters written on them, 2) gathering yellow tennis balls from all over the field, 3) picking

up some cans in specific positions of the field. Then the robot had to empty each group of

objects in a specific goal.

Mohammad Khansari, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies and

Director of IT and Cyber Space Center, University of Tehran, Iran

Tel: +98-21-611*-****, +98-21-664*-****

Fax: +982*-****-****

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