Education / Awards...

M.Sc, Computer Science,                                                  Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2017

University of Alberta                                                                     

Thesis: Real-time Recognition of Shadow from Deep Edge Detection, by ConvNet, [PDF]
GPA: 3.9/4

B.Sc, Computer Science,                                                   Sep. 2011 - Jul. 2015

University of Tehran                                                                      
Thesis: Feature Extraction for Persian Digits Recognition by LSTM
GPA: 3.8/4

Honors & Awards:

• 4th place in Asia ACM-ICPC Competitive Programming Contest, 2013, [Certification]
• Semi-finalist in National Olympiad of Informatics, 2010
• 2nd place in Amazon AWS DeepRacer League, 2019
  Deep reinforcement learning competition 
• IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robots and System (IROS) Best paper award Award, 2018
• M.Sc. Full Scholarship, University of Alberta, 2015 - 2017
• Among top 3 students in the Department of Computing Science, 2011 - 2015
  Bachelor degree, University of Tehran
• M.Sc. Full Scholarship, University of Tehran,  2015 - 2018
  Recognized as a special talent, and granted to study M.Sc without taking the entrance exam
• Possess 2nd ranked belt in Kung Fu (To'a)