[2008-Present] University of Maryland, College Park, MD, US.
Ph.D. in Computer Science

[2004-2008] Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

[2012]
Ke Zhai, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Nima Asadi.
Mr. LDA: A Flexible Large Scale Topic Modeling Package using Variational Inference in MapReduce.
In the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW2012)
Lyon, France. April 2012. [12% acceptance]

[2011]
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Tamer Elsayed, and Jimmy Lin.
Pseudo Test Collections for Learning Web Search Ranking Functions.
In the proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011)
Beijing, China. July 2011. [19.8% acceptance]

[2011]
Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, and Jimmy Lin.
Cross-Corpus Relevance Projection.
In the proceedings of the 34th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2011)
Beijing, China. July 2011. (poster)

[2010]
Tamer Elsayed, Nima Asadi, Donald Metzler, Lidan Wang, and Jimmy Lin.
UMD and USC/ISI: TREC 2010 Web Track Experiments with Ivory.
Proceedings of the 19th Text REtrieval Conference (TREC2010)
Gaithersburg, Maryland. November 2010.

[May 2011 - August 2011] Twitter Inc., San Francisco, CA, US.
Position: Software Engineering Intern.
Manager: Alek Kolcz and Jimmy Lin