Parham Zilouchian

I am Parham Zilouchian, currently serving as a Research Assistant at the University of Tehran's Department of ECE, after having accomplished my M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the same institution. My academic journey began at the University of Kashan, where I concluded my B.Sc. in Computer Software Engineering from Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. My main research interests are Machine Learning, Deep Neural Networks, Computer Vision, GANs, Data Analysis, and Bio-Inspired Computing. Right now I'm working on Developing of a Neural Network and Deep Learning approach for video compression, as my Master thesis.

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Education EDUCATION

University of Tehran

Computer Engineering - Computer Architecture
Thesis: Designing Generative Models for Developing Deep Learning Applications in Video Compression.
1st Supervisor: Dr. Mehdi Modarressi
2nd Supervisor: Dr. MohamadAmin Sadeghi
Lab Webpage: utnoc.ir

Current GPA: 19.18/20 (3.88/4)

Sep. 2019 - Feb. 2023

University of Kashan

Computer Engineering - Software Engineering
Thesis: Deep learning based on support vector machine (SVM)

GPA (last 2 years): 18.25/20 (3.96/4)
Cumulative GPA: 17.69/20 (3.81/4)

Sep. 2015 - Sep. 2019

Dr. Ali Khayatzade High School

Total High Quality School (TQS)
Diploma Degree

Mathematics and Physics

GPA: 19.44/20 (4/4)

Sep. 2011 - Jun 2015

Experience Research Experience

Research Assistant in Computational Modeling and Machine Learning Lab

Supervised by: Dr. Mehdi Modarressi

Working on developing a video compression application using Deep Learning techniques.

Working on Generative Adresarial Networks acceleration in order to use them in a bionic eye signal transfering system.

Focusing on improving GANs in order to have lower power consumption and higher accuracy.

2020 - Present

Research Assistant in NETWORK ON CHIP LABORATORY

Supervised by: Dr. Mehdi Modarressi

Working on developing a video compression application using Deep Learning techniques.

Working on Generative Adresarial Networks acceleration in order to use them in a bionic eye signal transfering system.

Focusing on improving GANs in order to have lower power consumption and higher accuracy.

2020 - Present



teaching Teaching Experiences


• Chief Teaching Assistant, University of Tehran

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (TAI)

This course is under the supervision of Dr. Mohammad Amin Sadeghi & Dr. Mostafa Tavassolipour.
I was responsible for creating video and learning materials for this course.
I was responsible for grading Quizes, Projects and Exams.
I am responsible for designing Project number 4 about Database usage in Data Analytics.

Feb. 2023 - July 2023

• Teaching Assistant, University of Tehran

Data Analysis (DA)

This course is under the supervision of Dr. Mohammad Amin Sadeghi.
I am responsible for creating video and learning materials for this course. (you could find some of my videos on my Youtube Channel.)
I am responsible for grading Quizes, Projects and Exams.
I am responsible for designing Project number 4 about Database usage in Data Analytics.

Sep. 2021 - Feb. 2022

• Teaching Assistant, University of Tehran

Fault Tolerant (FT)

This course was under the supervision of Dr. Saeed Safari.
I am responsible for designing and grading homework, projects and exams.

Sep. 2021 - Now

• Teaching Assistant, University of Tehran

Network on Chip (NOC)

This course was under the supervision of Dr. Mehdi Modarressi.
I am responsible for designing and grading homework, projects and exams.

Sep. 2021 - Now

• Teaching Assistant, University of Kashan

Discrete Mathematics (DM)

This course was under the supervision of Dr. Hossein Ebrahimpour-Komleh.
I am responsible for designing and grading homework, projects and exams.

I am also responsible for holding classes.

Sep. 2021 - Now

• Teaching Assistant, University of Kashan

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

This course was under the supervision of Dr. Hossein Ebrahimpour-Komleh.
I am responsible for designing and grading homework, projects and exams.

Sep. 2021 - Now

• Teaching Assistant, University of Kashan

Computational Intelligence (CI)

This course was under the supervision of Dr. Javad Salimi.
I am responsible for designing and grading homework, projects and exams.

Sep. 2021 - Now

• Lab Instructor, University of Kashan

Matlab Lab

This course was under the supervision of Dr. Hossein Ebrahimpour-Komleh.
I am responsible for designing and grading homework, projects and exams.

Sep. 2021 - Now

• Teaching Assistant, University of Tehran

Chip Multi Processor (CMP)

This course was under the supervision of Dr. Mehdi Modarressi.
I am responsible for designing and grading homework, projects and exams.

Feb. 2021 - Aug. 2021

• Programming Teacher, Dr. Ali Khayatzade High School

Java Programming Language

This course was under my own supervision.
I am responsible for teching Java Programming language to high school students and also designing and grading home works and exams.

2017 - 2018

• Teaching Assistant, University of Kashan

Algorithm Design (AD)

This course was under the supervision of Dr. Javad Salimi.
I am responsible for designing and grading homework, projects and exams.

2017

• Teaching Assistant, University of Kashan

Advanced Programming (AP)

This course was under the supervision of Ahmand Yoosofan.
I am responsible for designing and grading homework, projects and exams.

2016




workshop ATTENDED WORKSHOPS


Scale Transform X - 2022

Operationalizing AI at Scale

In 2022, Scale TransformX mainly focused on using AI in the industry and discussed the latest achievements by some researchers and managers in top tech companies like Google.

The discussion which fascinated me the most was a meeting with Eric Schmidt (Former Google CEO) and Alexandr Wang CEO & Founder @ Scale AI. They believe that we are sort of in the midst of an AI renaissance based on the broad use of technology by people and also utilizing basically cutting-edge AI in record time. They gave Stable Diffusion and Dall-E-2 as an example of this for image generation models. They argued that from a business perspective, we are about to see the next era of explosion of productivity and use cases. They also have said that data today is the fundamental blocker of many companies to getting into AI's future. Eric also argued a very interesting fact that generative design is going to have a lot of implications. He argues that the next revolution would be about generating things that are not physically possible. The most obvious ones are basically deep fakes of people who are no longer with us where we can almost talk to them. And these kinds of things, when they happen, which are coming pretty fast, people are going to notice because these are kind of things that we cannot do. And there are going to be ideas at that scale that are going to affect people every day. They also talked about ethics in AI and how AI can be used by bad actors to harm society and even individuals.

Oct. 2022

Scale Transform X - 2021

Driving AI from Experimentation to Reality

It was a two-day virtual conference focused on bringing together a community of leaders, visionaries, practitioners, and researchers across industries. And the topics that had discussed were concentrating on getting the research and academic works about Artificial Intelligence and related issues into actual use and reality. The most exciting lecture for me was the lecture of Prof. Fei-Fei Li, which was about the evolution that our planet has been through till now and how we could use this evolution in our new research areas, especially in the field of AI.

And also lecture of Prof. Andrew Ng was very exciting, he discussed that how we can use Deep Learning and Machine Learning techniques for Big Data and also Data Analytics.

Sep. 2021

FIFTH IPM ADVANCED SCHOOL ON COMPUTING & ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

The Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM) affiliated with the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, was founded in 1989 under the name of Institute for Studies in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics. In the Third Advanced School of Computing, experts working on computer architecture were invited to give lectures on various aspects of this influential and evolving branch of computer science. Prof. Oğuz Ergin from TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Prof. Onur Multu from ETH Zurich, Prof. Ozcan Ozturk from Bilkent University, and Prof. Smruti Ranjan Saranji from IIT Delhi were invited to have a talk on memory systems, coherence and consistency, on-chip-network, temperature and power management, and architecture for emerging workloads.

Sep. 2021

2nd International Computer Games Conference; Opportunities & Challenges

Game Theory / Artificial Intelligence / Start-Ups

This workshop was held in the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM).
It covered coherence and consistency, OpenMP, and CUDA programming.

2019




projects Academic Projects

• Developing fractal trees & jungle,

Bio-Inspired Computing

Development Tools: Python, JavaScript, Three.js, Matplotlib, Python turtle.

Developing an application to draw several types of fractal trees and jungle using L‑Systems.

Bio-Inspired Computing Course by Dr. Masoud Asadpour.

2021

• Developing a Genetic Algorithm application fro ZOE problem,

Bio-Inspired Computing

Development Tools: Python, NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas.

Developing a genetic algorithm based problem solver to solve ZOE problem.

Bio-Inspired Computing Course by Dr. Masoud Asadpour.

2021

• Particle Swarm Optimization,

Bio-Inspired Computing

Development Tools: Python, NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas.

Developing a classifier using Particle Swarm Algorithm and K‑Means.

Bio-Inspired Computing Course by Dr. Masoud Asadpour.

2021

• Ant Colony Optimization for Vehicle Routing Problem,

Bio-Inspired Computing

Development Tools: Python, scikit‑learn, NumPy, Matplotlib, Pandas.

Developing an Ant Colony System to solve Vehicle Routing Problem.

Bio-Inspired Computing Course by Dr. Masoud Asadpour.

2021

• Parkinson Disease Classifier,

Machine Learning

Development Tools: Python, scikit‑learn, Pandas, Matplotlib.

Designed multiple classifiers based on more than 700 features. (Use 15 different classifiers: KNN, DNN, etc.) (ACC: 98.3%.).

Machine Learning Course by Prof. Babak Nadjar Araabi, Dr. Mohammadreza Abolghasemi Dehaqani.

2021

Varzesh3 Website Data Analysis,

Machine Learning

Development Tools: Python, Beautiful Soup, Selenium, scikit‑learn, Pandas, Matplotlib, etc.

Extracted information of the website using crowler, Analyse and visualize the extracted data.

Machine Learning Course by Prof. Babak Nadjar Araabi, Dr. Mohammadreza Abolghasemi Dehaqani.

2021

U.S. Car Accidents Analysis Website Data Analysis,

Data Analysis

Development Tools: Python, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Plotly, Seaborn, etc.

Developed application to visualize US Accidents dataset, predicted the most probable time, place for an accient to occure.

Data Analysis Course by Dr. MohamadAmin Sadeghi, Dr. Behnam Bahrak.

2021

• Weather Forecasting Application,

Deep Learning

Development Tools: Python, Pytorch, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn.

Developed using RNN, LSTM (Reached to about 97% of Accuracy).

Deep Learning Course by Dr. Ahmad Kalhor.

2021

• German Traffic Sign Classification,

Deep Learning

Development Tools: Python, Pytorch, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn.

Used CNNs to classify traffic images. (Reached to about 98.5% of Accuracy.).

Deep Learning Course by Dr. Ahmad Kalhor.

2021

• Build different kinds of GANs,

Deep Learning

Development Tools: Python, Pytorch, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn.

Build DCGAN, CGAN, SuperResolution, WGAN, etc.

Deep Learning Course by Dr. Ahmad Kalhor.

2021

• Kashan Holiday(Tourist Website),

Software Engineering

Development Tools: Python, Django, JS, AngularJS, HTML, CSS, etc.

Developed a website for tourist guidance related tasks such as booking & viewing hotels in a city, historical sites, ...

Software Engineering Course by Dr. Javad Salimi.

2018

• TechnoFarsh System Analysis,

System Analysis and Design

Development Tools: Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Visio, Trello, etc.

Design a Software Engineering system and different development phases to develop TechnoFarsh E-Commerce Website.

System Analysis and Design Course by Dr. Javad Salimi.

2017

• Heart Patients Data Mining,

Data Mining

Development Tools: RapidMiner.

Design a Software Engineering system and different development phases to develop TechnoFarsh E-Commerce Website.

Data Mining Course by Dr. Mehdi Vahidipour.

2017

certificate Certificates

NEURAL NETWORKS AND DEEP LEARNING - Certificate

Successfully completed "Convolutional Neural Networks" online course by deeplearning.ai on Coursera

2021

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization - Certificate

Successfully completed "Convolutional Neural Networks" online course by deeplearning.ai on Coursera

2021

Deep Neural Networks with PyTorch - Certificate

Successfully completed "Convolutional Neural Networks" online course by deeplearning.ai on Coursera

2021

Machine Learning - Certificate

Successfully completed "Convolutional Neural Networks" online course by deeplearning.ai on Coursera

2020

certificate Skills

Programming Language


Python(NumPy, Pandas, Pytorch, Keras, Tensorflow, Matplotlib), C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Matlab, SQL (Postgres, MySQL), PHP, VHDL, Verilog, HTML/CSS

Operating Systems (OS)


Mac OS, Microsoft Windows, Linux

Frameworks


Django, React, Node.js, Flask, JUnit, WordPress, Material‑UI, FastAPI

Developer Tools


Git, Apache Hadoop, RapidMiner, Unity, Google Cloud Platform, VS Code, Visual Studio, PyCharm, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Adobe Photoshop, Enterprise Architect, Houdini, Docker

Typesetting Tools


LATEX, Microsoft office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel), Prezi

Developer Tools


Git, Docker, Unity, Google Cloud Platform, VS Code, Visual Studio, PyCharm, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Adobe Photoshop, Houdini

Languages


English: [IELTS: Overall=7.5 (L:8.5, R:7.5, S:6.5, W:7.0)]

Persian (Native)

Arabic (Intermediate)


AWARDS Honors & Awards