Vahid Salmani


title and affiliation: Graduate Student of Computer Engineering at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM).
e-mail: salmani [at] ferdowsi [dot] um [dot] ac [dot] ir
personal homepage: http://www.neja.ir/~v.salmani
address: Room 845, Software Simulation and Modeling Lab., Computer Engineering Dept., Ferdowsi Univ. of Mashhad, Iran.

 

Education | Awards & Honors | Teaching | Technical | Publications | Languages | Services | Memberships

Education

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.

M.S. in Computer Engineering - software, (2004 - 2007).

Thesis Title: “Multi-criteria Scheduling of Real-time Tasks on Uniform Multiprocessors”

Advisor: Professor Mahmoud Naghibzadeh

GPA: 18.88 / 20

 

Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.

B.S. in Computer Engineering - software, (2000 - 2004).

Thesis Title: “Design and Implementation of the Decision Making Module for Soccer Simulation Agents”

Advisor: Professor Mahmoud Naghibzadeh

GPA: 14.49 / 20

Awards and Honors

 

·     Graduate Admission with Tuition Fee Waiver and Assistantship, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 2007.

·     Graduate Admission with Fellowship, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, February 2007.

·     9th - 12th place of the RoboCup 2005 3D Soccer Simulation Championship among 33 teams, Osaka, Japan, July 2005.

·     1st place of City Soccer Simulation League, Islamic Azad University, Iran, June 2004.

·     Awarded outstanding B.S. Student, for being accepted into graduate studies program, (awarded only to 7 out of 70 students), Computer Engineering Dept., FUM, 2004.

·     Ranked 110th among about 20,000 computer engineering students in National Entrance Exam for Graduate Studies in Software Engineering Major, Iran, 2004.

·     Winner of the ACM Programming Contest, (the selective competition for participation in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Western Asia, Tehran), FUM, 2002, 2004.

·     1st place of National Soccer Simulation Competition, 5th Conference on Intelligent Systems, Mashhad, Iran, 2003.

 

Teaching Experiences

I have a teaching license from University of Applied Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Subjects taught:

·         Technical English Language

·         Advanced Programming

·         Data Structures and Algorithms

·         Fundamentals of Computer and Programming

·         Systems Analysis and Design

·         Operating Systems

·         Object Oriented Programming

·         Algorithms Design and Analysis

I have experienced teaching in English at Saramad IT Educational Center, accredited partner of NCC Education, UK.

Technical and Research Experiences

* System Administrator – Information Technology Services (ITS) Center, FUM, 2005 - 2007.

Maintenance and enhancement of E-learning system based on ATutor. Developed in Canada, ATutor is an open source web-based learning content management system whose Farsi language package is translated and updated in the ITS Center.

 

* Researcher – Communication and Computer Research Center, FUM, 2005 - 2007.

 

* Leader – Nexus Soccer Simulation Team, FUM, 2004 - 2007.

Qualified for participation in RoboCup Soccer Simulation Championship in Italy 2003, Japan 2005 and USA 2007.

 

Publications

1.      Vahid Salmani, Roya Ensafi, Narges Khatib-Astaneh, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, “A Fuzzy-based Multi-criteria Scheduler for Uniform Multiprocessor Real-time Systems”, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT 2007), December 17 - 20, 2007, Rourkela, India.

2.      Vahid Salmani, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Mohsen Kahani, “Deadline Scheduling with Processor Affinity and Feasibility Check on Uniform Parallel Machines”, the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT 2007), October 16 - 19, 2007, University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan.

3.      Amin Milani Fard, Vahid Salmani, Mohammad Hossein Ansari, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Amir Farzad, Morteza Delgir, Amin Zamiri, Ehsan Saboori, Mehrdad Mozafari, Farid Seifi “Nexus Robosoccer Development Process from 2D Simulated Agents to 3D Humanoid Soccerbots”, the Journal of the National Technical University (Kharkiv Polytechnical Institute), Herald of the NTU (KhPI) Scientific Works, 2007.

4.      Amin Milani Fard, Vahid Salmani, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Sedigheh Khajouie Nejad, Hamed Ahmadi, “Game Theory based Data Mining Technique for Strategy Making of a Soccer Simulation Coach Agent”, the 6th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and its Applications, (ISTA2007), Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), GI-Edition, May 23-25, 2007, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

5.      Vahid Salmani, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Mohsen Kahani, Sedigheh Khajouie Nejad, “Multi-criteria Scheduling of Soft Real-time Tasks on Uniform Multiprocessors Using Fuzzy Inference”, International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences & Software Engineering (SCS2 06), IEEE Sponsored, University of Bridgeport, December 4 - 14, 2006.

6.      Vahid Salmani, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Amirhossein Taherinia, Malihe Bahekmat, Sedigheh Khajouie Nejad, “Efficiency Assessment of Job-level dynamic Scheduling Algorithms on Identical Multiprocessors”, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 12, Volume 5, December 2006.

7.      Vahid Salmani, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Amirali Habibi, Hossein Deldari, “Quantitative Comparison of Job-level Dynamic Scheduling Policies in Parallel Real-time Systems”, IEEE TENCON 2006, Hong Kong, November 2006.

8.      Mehrdad Mozafari, Amin Milani Fard, Vahid Salmani, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, “An Improved Fuzzy Mechanism for 3D Soccer Player Agent's Shoot Skill”, IEEE INDICON 2006, September 15-17, 2006, New Delhi, India.

9.      Vahid Salmani, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Amirhossein Taherinia, Malihe Bahekmat, Sedigheh Khajouie Nejad, “Performance Evaluation of Deadline-based and Laxity-based Scheduling Algorithms in Real-time Multiprocessor Environments”, The 6th WSEAS International Conference on Systems Theory and Scientific Computation (ISTASC'06), August 18-20, 2006, Elounda, Agios Nikolaos, Crete Island, Greece.

10.      Saman Taghavi Zargar, Vahid Salmani, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, “MMUF: An Optimized Scheduling Algorithm for Dynamically Reconfigurable Real-Time Systems”, The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications (ICTTA’06), April 24-28, 2006, Damascus, Syria.

11.      Vahid Salmani, Amin Milani Fard, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, “A Fuzzy Two-Phase Decision Making Approach for Simulated Soccer Agent”, IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems (ICEIS’2006), April 22-23, 2006, Islamabad, Pakistan.

12.      Mojtaba Sabeghi, Hossein Deldari, Vahid Salmani, Malihe Bahekmat, Toktam Taghavi, “A Fuzzy Algorithm for Real-Time Scheduling of Soft Periodic Tasks on Multiprocessor Systems”, IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing, February 25-28, 2006, San Sebastian, Spain.

13.      Vahid Salmani, Saman Taghavi Zargar, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, “A Modified Maximum Urgency First Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Tasks”,  The 7th World Enformatika Conference, November 25-27, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey, also published in Enformatika Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, Vol.9.

14.  Vahid Salmani, Farid Seifi, Hossein Moienzadeh, Amin Milani Fard, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, “Nexus 2005 - 3D Team Description”, RoboCup Soccer simulation team description as part of the qualification materials, International Symposium of RoboCup, July 18-19, 2005, Osaka, Japan.

15.  Vahid Salmani, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, Farid Seifi, Amirhossein Taherinia, “A Two-Phase Mechanism for Agent’s Action Selection in Soccer Simulation”,  The 2nd World Enformatika Conference, (WEC'05), February 25-27, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey, also published in Enformatika Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, Vol.4.

Language Proficiency

·    Farsi (mother tongue)

·    English (fluent)

TOEFL Paper Based Test (August 2006) : 637 / 677

Listening: 60 / 68

Structure: 67 / 68

Reading: 64 / 67

TWE: 4.5 / 6

·    Arabic (basic understanding)

 

Services

·    Reviewer of the 3rd Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT'07), FUM, Iran, November 2007.

·    Parallel Processing & Distributed Systems track chair assistant of the 3rd Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT'07), FUM, Iran, November 2007.

·    Reviewer of International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CIS2E 06), IEEE Sponsored, December 2006.

·    Co-founder and director of Software Simulation and Modeling Laboratory, FUM, 2004.

·    Editor in chief of @tsign Magazine, the only student magazine of Computer Engineering Department, FUM, 2001 - 2002.

 

Memberships

·     IEEE Student member, 2006 - now

·     Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG), 2006 - now

·     Senior Member of Young Iranian Elites Association, 2005 - now

·     ACM Student member, 2004 - now

·     Member of Nexus Soccer Simulation Team, Ferdowsi University, 2002 - 2007

 

last updated: January 27, 2008