Seminar on Jxta Technology

							Mohsen Jamali        (Last Updated: July 2011)                  Curriculum Vitae

Contact         Data Mining Research Laboratory                       phone: (+1)(778) 782-5371
Information     School of Computing Science                           email: mohsen jamali@sfu.ca
                Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada                   http://www.sfu.ca/∼sja25/


Research           • Data Mining
Interests              – Recommendation Systems
                            ∗   Recommendation Models in Social Networks
                            ∗   Trust-based Recommendation
                            ∗   Model-based Collaboration Filtering
                            ∗   Factor Models for Recommendation
                            ∗   Link Prediction
                       – Social Network Analysis
                            ∗ Web Graph Mining
                            ∗ Link Structure Mining
                            ∗ Generative Models for Social Networks
                   • Information Retrieval and Search Engines
                   • Information Extraction
                   • Semantic Web.


Education
                Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
                  Ph.D Computing Science, since Fall 2007. Expected graduation date: Dec 2012
                  Advisor: Prof. Martin Ester

                Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
                  M.S. Software Engineering. May 2007
                  Advisor: Professor. Hassan Abolhassani

                Sharif University of technology, Tehran, Iran
                  B.S., Computer Engineering with a specialty in Software Engineering, September 2005

                  PhD Thesis: Recommendation in Social Networks. Under Supervision of Prof. Ester (Ongoing).
Theses
                  MS Thesis: Mining Persian Blogs’ Social Network. Under Supervision of Prof. Abolhassani
                  (May 2006-June 2007).
                  BS Thesis: Optimization of Message Propagation in Peer to Peer Networks at JXTA Framework.
                  Under Supervision of Prof. Habibi (2005).


Professional       • PC member for ACM Recsys 2011.
Activities         • Reviewer for conferences: KDD 2009, KDD 2010, RecSys 2010.
                   • Reviewer for Journals: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems, UMUAI, IJECE.
Publications
               M. Jamali, T. Huang, and M. Ester, ”A Generalized Stochastic Block Model for Recommendation
               in Social Rating Networks”, to Appear in ACM Conference in Recommender Systems (RecSys’11)
               , Chicago, IL, USA, October 2011.

               M. A. Tayebi, M. Jamali, U. Glasser, M. Ester and R. Frank, ”CrimeWalker: A Recommenda-
               tion Model for Suspect Investigation”, to Appear in ACM Conference in Recommender Systems
               (RecSys’11) , Chicago, IL, USA, October 2011.

               M. Jamali and M. Ester, ”A Transitivity Aware Matrix Factorization Model for Recommendation in
               Social Networks”, in the 22nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’11),
               Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.

               M. Jamali, G. Haffari, and M. Ester, ”Modeling the Temporal Dynamics of Social Rating Networks
               using Bidirectional Effects of Social Relations and Rating Patterns”, in WWW 2011, Hyderabad,
               India, March 2011.

               M. Jamali and M. Ester, ”A Matrix Factorization Technique with Trust Propagation for Recom-
               mendation in Social Networks”, in 4th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys’10),
               Barcelona, Spain, September 2010 (Winner of the Best Paper Award).

               M. Jamali and M. Ester, ”Modeling and Comparing the Influence of Neighbors on the Behavior
               of Users in Social and Similarity Networks”, to appear in ICDM 2010 SIASP Workshop, Sydney,
               Australia, December 2010.

               M. Jamali and M. Ester, ”TrustWalker : A Random Walk Model for Combining Trust-based and
               Item-based Recommendation”, in Proc. of 15th SIGKDD conference (KDD09), Paris, France, July
               2009.

               M. Jamali and M. Ester, ”Using a Trust Network to Improve Top-N Recommendation for Cold Start
               Users”, in ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys’09), New York, USA, October 2009.

               S. Moghaddam, M. Jamali ,M. Ester, and J. Habibi, ”FeedbackTrust: Using Feedback Effects in
               Trust-based Recommendation Systems”, in ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys’09),
               New York, USA, October 2009.

               M. Jamali and H. Abolhassani, ”Different Aspects of Social Network Analysis”, in Proc. of the 2006
               IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-06), Hong Kong, December
               2006.

               M. Jamali, H. Sayyadi, B. B. Hariri, H. Abolhassani, ”A Method for Focused Crawling Using
               Combination of Link Structure and Content Similarity”, in Proc. of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM
               International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-06), Hong Kong, December 2006.

               K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Jamali, M. Neshati, H. Abolhassani, ”Experiments on Persian Weblogs”, in
               Proceedings of WWW2006 Workshop on Weblogging Ecosystem, Edinburgh, Scotland, Apr. 2006.

               K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Neshati, M. Jamali, H. Abolhassani, J. Habibi, ”Comparing Performance of
               Recommendation Techniques in the Blogsphere”, in Proceedings of ECAI2006 Workshop on Rec-
               ommender Systems, Trento, Italy, August 2006.

               M. Jamali and H. Abolhassani, ”Popularity and Focality in Weblogs’ Social Network”, in 12th
               International CSI Computer Conference, Tehran, Iran, February 2007

               M. Jamali and H. Abolhassani, ”Using Self Organizing Map to Infer Communities in Weblogs’ Social
               Network”, in Euoropean Conference on Data Mining (IADIS 2007), Lisbon Portugal, July 2007.

               Y.G. Saffar, H. Abolhassani, M. Neshati, and M. Jamali, ”A Similarity Measure for OWL-S An-
               notated Web Services”, in Proc. of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web
              Intelligence (WI-06), Hong Kong, December 2006.

              M. Jamali and H. Abolhassani, ”A Survey on Social Network Analysis”, Journal of Management
              and Information, 1(1), Iran, March 2007


Technical
              M. Jamali , ”Applying Data Mining Algorithms for Intrusion Detection in Computer Networks”,
Reports
              Technical Report No, 2006-03, Web Intelligence Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran,
              Iran, November 2006.

              M. Jamali , ”Learning to Solve Stochastic Shortest Path Problems”, Technical Report No. 2006-02,
              Web Intelligence Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, July 2006

              K. Sheykh Esmaili, M. Jamali, M. Neshati, ”Identification of main communities in Persianblog”,
              Technical Report No. 2006-01, Web Intelligence Laboratory, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran,
              Iran, May 2006.


Academical       • Attending ACM SIGKDD 2009 in Paris, France
Activities       • Attending the ICDM/WI/IAT 2006 conference and presenting 3 papers in WI’06
                 • Founder of WIC Research Center in Tehran, Iran


Honors and       • 2010 : Best Paper Award at 2010 ACM Recommender Systems conf.
Awards           • 2010 : SFU Graduate Fellowship
                 • 2008 : SFU Graduate Fellowship
                 • 2007 : SFU Graduate Entrance Scholarship
                 • 2006 : IEEE Student Traveling Award in WI06/IAT06 (December).
                 • 2005 : Ranked 23th in ”National Entrance Exam for M.Sc. Studies” in Software
                   Engineering major, among more than 8’000 B.Sc. students.
                 • 2004 : Ranked 17th in ”National Entrance Exam for M.Sc. Studies” in Hardware
                   Engineering major, among more than 8’000 B.Sc. students.
                 • 2001 : Ranked 13th in ”National Entrance Exam for B.Sc. Studies” among more
                   than 400’000 high school students.
                 • 2000 : Awarded Bronze medal in the final exam of national Mathematics Olympiad.
                 • 2000 : Semifinalist of National Computer Olympiad.
                 • 2000 : Semifinalist of National Physics Olympiad.
                 • 2000 : Semifinalist of National Chemistry Olympiad.


PhD Courses      • Data Mining → A
                 • Algorithms → A+
                 • Social Network Analysis → A
Teaching           • Software Engineering, Simon Fraser University, Spring 2008.
Assitantship       • Data Structure in Java, Simon Fraser University, Fall 2007.
Experiences        • Data Mining (MS Course), Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2006
                   • Modern Information Retrieval, Sharif University of Technology, Spring 2006
                   • Scientific and Technical Presentation, Sharif University of Technology, Spring 2006
                   • Modern Information Retrieval, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2005
                   • System Analysis and Design, Sharif University of Technology, Fall 2005


Research           • RA with Dr. Ester, Simon Fraser University, Summer 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009
Assistantship      • Developing A Test Bed for Social Network Analysis in Weblogs’ network, Under supervision of
Experiences          Dr. Abolhassani, Sharif University of Technology, Spring 2006.
                   • Comparing Performance of Recommendation Techniques in the Blogsphere , Under supervision
                     of Dr. Abolhassani, Sharif University of Technology, Spring 2006.
                   • Developing A ”Recommendation Service for Weblogs”, Summer 2006 - Fall 2006.
                   • Developing a System for ”Semantic Web Document Extraction (SWDE)” from usual Web Pages,
                     Under supervision of Dr. Abolhassani, Sharif University of Technology. Summer 2006.


Co-Supervised BS   • An RSS Based Search Engine for Persian Weblogs, Vahid Mousavi, Sharif University of Tech-
Theses               nology, Fall 2006



Seminars           • Recommendation in Social Networks, invited speaker, UBC, October 2010
                   • A Matrix Factorization Technique with Trust Propagation for Recommendation in Social
                     Networks in ACM RecSys 2010. Barcelona, Spain.
                   • TrustWalker: A Random Walk Model for Combining Trust-based and Item-based Recommendatio
                     in SIGKDD 2009, Paris,France.
                   • Using a Trust Network to Improve Top-N Recommendation for Cold Start Users in ACM
                     RecSys 2009, New York, USA.
                   • Popularity and Focality in Weblogs’ Social Network, in CSI 2007, Tehran, Iran
                   • Different Aspects of Social Networks, in WI 2006, Dec 2006
                   • A Method for Focused Crawling Using Combination of Link Structure and Content Similarity
                     in WI 2006, Dec 2006
                   • A Similarity Measure for OWL-S Annotated Web Services, in WI 2006, Dec 2006
                   • Unsupervised Learning, Seminar for ”Machine Learning” Course, May 2006.
                   • Colored Petri Nets, Seminar for ”Verification of Reactive Systems” Course, May 2006.
                   • Cross Language Information Retrieval, Presentation for Information Retrieval Course, May
                     2006.
                   • Information Retrieval in Peer to Peer Networks, Presentation for ”Information Retrieval”
                     Course, Fall 2005.


Programming        • Java: Proficient, Expert in J2EE
Languages          • C++: Academic Knowledge
                   • Hands on .Net Framework