Hassan Sayyadi

Computer Science  Department

University of Maryland-College Park

My advisor Louiqa Raschid

Research Interest

• Web Intelligence, Web Mining, and Data Mining, Social Networks
• Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, and Search Engines
• Machine Learning
• Bioinformatics

Educations

• 2007-now, PHD in Computer Science, University of Maryland-College Park, MD, US
• 2005-2007, Ms in Software Engineering, Sharif University Of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• 2001-2005, BS in Software Engineering, Sharif University Of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• 2000-2001, College Diploma, Aboreihan College, Babol, Iran
• 1999-2000, High School Diploma, Alghadir High School, Babol, Iran
• 1997-1999, High School Diploma, Nemone Mardomi High School, Babol, Iran

Publications (in reverse chronological order)

• H. Sayyadi, S. Salehi. and M.Ghodsi, ”Using Similarity Flooding for Extracting Similar Parts of Proteins”,  To Appear in Proceeding of IAENG International Conference on Computer Science (ICCS'07), Hong Kong, 21-23 March, 2007 (Nominated for Best Paper Award).(pdf)
•  H. Sayyadi, S. Salehi and H. Abolhassani. "NeSReC: News meta-Search Result Clustering".  To Appear in Proceeding of CIS²E 06 The International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering, USA, December 4-14, 2006.(pdf)
• H. Sayyadi, S. Salehi and H. Abolhassani. "Survey on News Mining Tasks". To Appear in Proceeding of  CIS²E 06 The International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering, USA, December 4-14, 2006.(pdf)
• M. Jamali, H. Sayyadi, B. Bagheri Hariri and H. Abolhassani, "A Method for Focused Crawling Using Combination of Link Structure and Content Similarity", to Appear in Proceeding of 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-06), Hong Kong, December 2006.(pdf)
• B. Bagheri Hariri, H. Abolhassani and H. Sayyadi,"A Neural-Networks-Based Approach for Ontology Alignment", In proceedings of Joint 3^rd International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 7^thInternational Symposium on advanced Intelligent Systems, Tokyo, Japan, September 2006.(pdf)
• B. Bagheri Hariri, H. Sayyadi, H. Abolhassani and K. Sheykh Esmaili, "Combining Ontology Alignment Metrics Using the Data Mining Techniques", In Proceeding of 2006 International Workshop on Context and Ontologies (C&O '2006), Trento, Italy, August 2006.(pdf)

My Coauthors

Babak Bagheri Hariri,  Hassan Abolhassani, Kyumars Sheykh Esmaili, Mohsen Jamali, Sara Salehi, and Mohammad Ghodsi.

Technical Reports

• H. Sayyadi and A. Sharifi, "Using computational geometry in proteins comparison", Technical Report No. 2006-08,  Sharif University Of technology, Tehran, Iran, August 2006(pdf)
• H. Sayyadi, "Learning to Solve Stochastic Shortest Path Problems", Technical Report No. 2006-02, Semantic Web Research Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, July 2006. (pdf)
• K. Sheykh Esmaili, H. Sayyadi, "Developing a Semantic Web Enabled Search Engine for Sharif University", Technical Report No. 2006-01, Semantic Web Research Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, March 2006 (pdf in Persian)

Theses

• H. Sayyadi, "News Retrieval and Mining", Semantic Web Research Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, M.S. thesis, June 2007
• H. Sayyadi, "Semantic Web Crawler", Semantic Web Research Laboratory, Computer Department, Sharif University of Technology, B.Sc. thesis, October 200

Teaching Assistantships

• Data Mining (Fall 2006), Dr. H. Abolhassani
• Semantic Web (Spring 2006), Dr. H. Abolhassani
• Modern Information Retrieval (Fall 2005), Dr. H. Abolhassani
• Programming Languages (Spring 2005), Dr. Gh. Jaberipour
• Object Oriented Programming in Java (Fall 2004), Dr. R. Khosravi
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2004), Prof. M. Ghodsi
• Data Structures and Algorithms (Fall 2003), Prof. M. Ghodsi

Research Assistantships

• Exploiting Ontology Structure and Patterns of Annotation to Mine Significant Associations between CV Terms
• News Clustering
• News Retrieval
• Ontology Matching
• Developing a Semantic Web for Sharif University of Technology

 Other

Co-Supervised BS Theses:

• News Retrieval System for Persian News, Fall 2006
• News collection with detecting their importance in the corresponding news source, Spring 2007

Graduate Courses:         

• Link Mining by , Lise Getoor
• Computational Challenges of Web 2.0 and Beyond By Louiqa Raschid
• Parallel Algorithms by Clyde P. Kruskal
• Advanced Topics in Information Processing: Sensors and Mobile Data Tracking by Amol Deshpande
• Computer Networks by Neil Spring
• Machine Learning
• Data Mining
• Computational Geomtry(see my research)
• Advanced Software Engineering
• Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems
• Advanced Operating System and Distributed Systems
• Seminar

Useful Links

• The Institute for Logic, Language and ComputationNews and Events
• IEEE Computer Society Conference Calendar
• ACM Events and Conferences
• Citeseer Scientific Literature Digital Library