EDUCATION

Master of Science

Shiraz University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Software Engineering, GPA: 94%
Research Thesis: An Empirical Study of Developers Activities in Software Repositories, Score: 94.5%

Bachelor of Science

Shiraz University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Software Engineering, GPA: 77%
Thesis: Introducing a Tracker Application to Help Disabled People, Score: 98.7%

High School Diploma and Pre-University

 National Organization for the Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET)

HONORS AND AWARDS​

  • First in Class, Valedictorian, Valedictorian, the Student with the Highest Academic Standing (GPA), 2016.
  • Received a Bronze Badge in American Epilepsy Society Seizure Prediction Challenge, 2014.
        Team Name: Shiraz University | Kaggler, http://www.kaggle.com/c/seizure-prediction
         Profile: https://www.kaggle.com/aboutme
  • Acceptance in the 16th National Computer Olympiad in Iran , 2007  

WORK EXPERIENCE

Full-Stack Web Developer and Software Engineer in Rayanic Espadana Co., Full‑time (October 2016 ‑ now) and Part‑time (May 2014 ‑ October 2016); Design and development of websites and plugins, including WordPress Theme and Plugin development, in PHP and JS programming languages.

Volunteer Researcher (2016 – now). I mostly work on Empirical Software Engineering. Output: Mohamad Yazdaninia, David Lo, and Ashkan Sami. Characterization and Prediction of Questions without Accepted Answers on Stack Overflow, in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2021)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Software Engineering, Software Tools, Empirical Software Engineering, MSR, Human Aspects in Software Engineering, HCI, NLP, Deep Learning, Data Science, Code Analysis

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

  • Mohamad Yazdaninia, David Lo, and Ashkan Sami. “Characterization and Prediction of Questions without Accepted Answers on Stack Overflow”, in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2021), CORE Ranked A https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC52881.2021.00015
  • “An Empirical Study of Developers’ Activities in Software Repositories”, Master’s Thesis, Shiraz University, Shiraz, 2016
  • “An Effective Solution to Answer Selection in Community Question Answering”, classification of the answers as definitely relevant, potentially useful, and bad, data: SemEval-2015 Task 3, AUC:
    0.72%, 2015.
  • Seizures Prediction using Intracranial EEG Recordings, American Epilepsy Society Seizure
    Prediction Challenge, received a Bronze Badge, AUC: 0.67%, 2014.  

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • Teaching Assistant, Shiraz University, Spring 2016
  • Teaching Assistant, Software Engineering, Shiraz University, Fall 2015
  • Teaching Assistant, Theory Automata & Language, Shiraz University, Spring 2014
  • Teaching Assistant, Discrete Math, Shiraz University, Spring 2012

COMPUTER SKILLS

  • Data Science: AWS (SageMaker, EC2), Scikit-learn, Pandas, Numpy, Matplot, NLTK, SPSS Modeler, Weka, Matlab
  • Programming: Python, PHP, Javascript, Java, T-SQL, CSS, HTML, Scheme, C, Assembly
  • Others: Latex, Linux, WordPress Theme/Plugin Development, SEO, PHP Codeigniter, Gulp ,Git, Photoshop, Composer, REST API, MSSQL, MySQL, Web Server Setup

EXTRA-CURRICULUM ACTIVITIES

Chess.com, Gym