About Me
Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at NJIT specializing in machine learning, AI, and optimization. Published in top-tier venues (KDD, IEEE HPEC) with a Best Paper Award.
My Ph.D. advisor is Professor Ioannis Koutis.
I earned my Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, where I actively participated in ACM ICPC contests, honing problem-solving and teamwork skills.
Publications
- Promoting Fairness and Priority in Selecting k-Winners Using IRV
- Approximating Connected Maximum Cuts via Local Search
- Parallel Longest Common Subsequence Analysis in Chapel
- A Branch-and-Price Approach to a Variant of the Cognitive Radio Resource Allocation Problem
To see the full list of my publications, check my Google Scholar account.
Projects
- Parallel Longest Common Subsequence Analysis
- Course Scheduling Program for NJIT
- Jigsaw Puzzle Solver
Achievements
Best Paper Award at WALCOM 2023. Multiple ACM ICPC Honorable Mentions.
Check my ACM/ICPC profile for my competitive programming honors.
Peer Reviews
I have completed over 118 verified peer reviews for leading journals and conferences, including:
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (17 reviews)
- International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science (8 reviews)
- Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (8 reviews)
- Theoretical Computer Science (7 reviews)
- Computers & Industrial Engineering (7 reviews)
- ACM SIGKDD Conference (6 reviews)
- Information and Computation (6 reviews)
- Journal of Scheduling (6 reviews)
- More details available on my Web of Science profile.
Contact
Email: sv96@njit.edu
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