Engineering Electrical

Nazanin Zaker

Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Eng., University of Denver

Phone: 720-***-****, Address: 2431 S. Harlan CT, Lakewood, CO. (80227)

Email: *******.***************@**.***

Summary and Objective

Goal-oriented and proficient problem-solver, with four years of teamwork and leadership experience in academia

and industry seeking a full time position as a Software Engineer.

Education

M.Sc.: Computer Science

GPA: 3.81/4 (Second Rank) via 32 credit hours.

Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran, Sep. 2007 – Feb. 2010.

M.Sc. Thesis title: Steganalysis methods in spatial domain of images.

Supervisors: Prof. S.D. Katebi and Dr. A. Hamzeh

B.Sc.: Computer engineering

GPA: 3.34/4 via 140 credit hours.

Isfahan University of Technology (IUT), Isfahan, Iran, Sep. 2002 – Jan. 2007

B.Sc. Project title: A New Steganalysis Method for LSB Flipping Steganography Based on Local Gradients of

Image Histogram. Project grade: A.

Supervisor: Prof. S.Samavi (Adjunct Professor at McMaster University)

Research Specialties

Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition & Classification, Data Mining and Data Analyzing, Image Processing and

Computer Vision

Programming Languages and skills

Highly experienced in C, C++, Java, Matlab, R

Experienced in working with Open CV, Visual Studio

Professional Experiences

PhD Intern at Cisco Systems – will join for Fall 2014.

Research Intern at Motorola Mobility (A Google Company)

Analyzed the user mobile information, Provided the initial design of User Profiles in respect to mobile application

usage and application crashes, Designed and formulated the scoring function for scoring the application usage

regarding frequency, duration and recency of usages, and Suggested Machine Learning methods for clustering and

classification of users based on their application usage and cell-phone information (Summer 2013).

Graduate Research Assistant

Application of Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition & Classification in face recognition and understanding

(March 2011 – present).

Teaching Experience

Lecturer and Teaching Assistant (TA) for about three years in different universities. Responsibilities included giving

lectures, conducting classes, labs, and problem solving sessions, grading papers and lab reports.

University of Denver, TA for Digital Circuits, Micro Processors, Matlab programming, (Fall 2012 – Spring

2013).

Shiraz University, TA for Computer Architecture, Digital Circuits, (Fall 2008).

Isfahan Univ. of Technology, TA for Advanced Digital Circuits, (Fall 2006).

Isfahan Private University, Lecturer for Web Designing, C++ programming, Introduction to Machine

Automata Theory (Fall 2010).

Academic Experiences

Senior Member of Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Department, University of Denver, (Spring 2011– present).

Senior Member of Software Engineering Lab, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Shiraz

University (SU), (Fall 2008 – 2011).

Researcher at Vision and Image Processing Lab, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Shiraz

University (SU), (Fall 2008 –2009).

Researcher at IUTStego research group at Isfahan University of Tech, (Spring 2005 – Jan 2007).

Reviewer of Iranian Student Conference on Electrical Engineering (ISCEE), (2007 – present).

Engineering Internships

Cisco systems, got an offer for Fall 2014.

Motorola Mobility LLC, Research intern, July-September 2013

Talaye Rayane Co., Programming Section, Designing the Production Line for Nayeen Car Industry, (June –

July 2005).

Godaz Sanat Co., Iran, Designing the Financial System Database (Jan 2007 – Sep 2007).

Publication

Peer Reviewed Journal Papers

N. Zaker, M. H. Mahoor, W. Mattson, D. Messinger, and J. Cohn, “Automated Measurement of The

Intensity of Spontaneous Facial Action Uinits Under Head Poser Variation ”, to be submitted to IEEE

Transaction on Affective Computing.

N. Zaker, A. Hamzeh, “A Novel Steganalysis for TPVD Steganographic Method Based on Differences of

Pixel differences’ Histogram”, Springer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2012.

M. Mahdavi, S. Samavi, N. Zaker, M. Modarres Hashemi, “Steganalysis Method for LSB Replacement

Based on Local Gradient of Image Histogram”, Iranian Journal of Electrical &Electronic Engineering, 2008

Peer Reviewed Conference Paper

N. Zaker, M. H. Mahoor, D. Messinger, and J. Cohn, “Jointly Detecting Infants' Multiple Facial Action

Units Expressed During Spontaneous Face-to-Face communication”, accepted in ICIP 2014.

N. Zaker, A. Dutta, A. Maurer, J. J. Zhang, S. Hanrahan, O. Hebb, N. Kovvali, A. Papandreou-

Suppappola, “Adaptive Learning of Cognitive Tasks for Patients with Parkinson’s Disease Using Signals

from Deep Brain Stimulation”, Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers 2014.

N. Zaker, M. H. Mahoor, W. Mattson, D. Messinger, and J. Cohn, “A study on different classification

methods for automatic measurement of spontaneous facial expressions”, 2013 Conference on Automatic

Face and Gesture Recognition, 2013.

N. Zaker, M. H. Mahoor, Whitney I. Mattson, Daniel S. Messinger, J F. Cohn, “Intensity Measurement of

Spontaneous Facial Actions: Evaluation of Different Image Representations”, IEEE conference on

development and learning and epigenetic, San Diego, USA, 2012.

N. Zaker, S. Samavi, A. Hamzeh, “Improving Security of PVD Steganographic Method”, Proceeding of

IEEE, IFIP International Conference on NTMS, Egypt, pp. 399-402, 2009.

N. Zaker, S.D. Katebi, S. Samavi, “Modification to Pixel Value Differencing Steganographic Method for

Enhanced Security”, 17th Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Tehran, pp. 34-37, 2009.

M. Mahdavi, S. Samavi, N. Zaker, F. Mansori, “A New Steganalysis Method for LSB Flipping

Steganography based on Local Gradients of Image Histogram”, 12th International Computer Conference,

Tehran, 2007.

Memberships

IEEE Student Member, January 2009 – present

Member of Scientific committee of Iranian Student Conference on Electrical Engineering, May 2007 –

Present.

Graduate Courses

Advanced Analysis and Design of Algorithms

Parallel Programming

Expert Systems and knowledge engineering

Advanced Database Systems and Data mining

Evolutionary Computation

Machine Learning

Neural Networks

Advanced Software Engineering

Advanced Mathematics

Advanced Computer Vision

Advanced Pattern Recognition

Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms

Privacy Preserving in Data Mining Algorithms

Sample Projects

Designing user profiles and application scoring out of users mobile information.

Facial expression recognition on the infant dataset.

Devising the head pose estimation algorithms and study its effect in facial expression recognition.

Studying the relation between head pose and eye gaze on infant dataset.

Numerical shape from shading and occluding boundaries.

Perspective distortion rectification, affine rectification, and similarity rectification.

Geometric and stereo camera calibration.

3D object reconstruction using window correlation, Sum of Squared Differences (SSD) and Triangulation

method.

References

Dr. Jun Jason Zhang, Assistant professor, ECE Dept. University of Denver.

Email: ***.*****@**.***

Dr. Shadrokh Samavi, Professor, ECE Dept. Isfahan University of Technology.

Email: ********@**.***.**.**, Homepage: http://www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~samavi/

Dr. Ali Hamzeh, Assistant Professor, CSE Dept, School of Engineering, Shiraz University.

Email: ***@***.*******.**.**, Homepage: http://www.cse.shirazu.ac.ir/~ali/

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