Behzad Vahedi

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Education

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Master of Science Geography (Geographical Information Science) Gpa: 3.97/4 2015 K.N.Toosi University of Technology

Master of Science Geographical Information Systems Engineering (GIS) Gpa: 18.40/20 2012 K.N.Toosi University of Technology

Bachelor of Science Geomatics Engineering Gpa: 16.41/20 Skills

GIS ArcGIS (Desktop ans Server), QGIS, Oracle Spatial. Programming Java, Python, Haskell, MATLAB

(Spatial) Data Science Tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, NumPy, Scipy, and ArcPy Web Mapping Leaflet, MapBox, GeoServer

Honors and Awards

Mar. 2018 Finalist in SAP and ESRI Geospatial Hackathon 2016 - 2018 Five times recipient of Jack and Laura Dangermond travel scholarship Feb. 2013 Best paper award in the “21st National Geomatics Conference”, NCC 2012 Merit based admission to graduate program in GIS Engineering 2008 Ranked top 1% in the National University Entrance Exam, Iran Professional Experience

Current - Center for Spatial Studies, UC Santa Barbara Sep 2015 Graduate Research Assistant

Spatial Question Answering - NLP on spatial queries

Big spatial data modelling and analysis

Designing core computations for spatial computing

Algebraic specification and functional implementation of spatial core concepts 2012 - 2013 Naghshara Consulting Engineers, Tehran, Iran GIS Developer and Engineer

Designing Data model and database structure for National Oil Pipelines

Design and implementation of spatial databases

Publications

2019 GIS as a Spatial Question-Answering System

Vahedi, B., Hervey, T., & Mai, G.

[under review]

2016 Exploring the Notion of Spatial Lenses

Allen, C., Hervey, T., Lafia, S., Phillips, D. W., Vahedi, B., & Kuhn, W. in: International Conference on Geographic Information Science (pp. 259-274). Springer International Publishing

2016 Question-based spatial computing, A case study Vahedi, B., Kuhn, W., & Ballatore, A.

Geospatial Data in a Changing World (pp. 37-50). Springer International Publishing. 2016 Assessing the Attribute Accuracy of Volunteered Geographic Information Vahedi, B., & Alesheikh, A. A.

Journal of Geomatics Science and Technology, 5(3), 49-64. 2014 Quantitative Assessment of Pragmatic Quality of VGI Using Fuzzy Linguistic Quantifiers Vahedi, B., Alesheikh, A. A., & Honarparvar, S.

Journal of Geomatics Science and Technology, 3(4), 65-76. Projects

Spatial Question Ongoing Research,

Answering Natural Language Processing of spatial queries on GQA dataset using deep learning. Applying machine reasoning to decompose questions into (spatial) operations and a RNN to answer them.

Technology stack: Python, TensorFlow

GauchoSafe STKO Lab, University of California Santa Barbara Summer 2017 An android app to report user location and information in case of danger. Generates a heatmap of the reported locations.

Technology stack: Android, HTML, CSS, PHP, Leaflet.js OSM Quality Ass. Masters Thesis

2014-2015 Evaluated positional and attribute accuracy and completeness of OpenStreetMap data via an automatic data matching algorithm.

Technology stack: Oracle Spatial, JOSM, ArcGIS

Earthquake Explorer A Java app that visualizes USGS live GeoJSON earthquake feed. Users Winter 2015 can view earthquake events and query them spatially, temporally, and thematically.

Technology stack: Java, GeoJSON, JOSM

Indoor positioning A Location Estimation and Navigation project that uses WiFi signal Winter 2014 strength to estimate the location of users using a K-nearest neighbor method. Users are navigated towards their destination using visual and audio guides.

Technology stack: C#

Teaching Experience

University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Geography Fall 2019 Introduction to GIScience (GEOG 176A) Prof. Werner Kuhn Fall 2018 Introduction to GIScience (GEOG 176A) Prof. Werner Kuhn Summer 2018 Introduction to GIScience (GEOG 176A) Instructor: Rui Zhu Fall 2017 Maps and Spatial Reasoning (GEOG W12) Prof. Keith Clarke Fall 2016 Introduction to GIScience (GEOG 176A) Prof. Werner Kuhn

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