Mahdi Vasighi

Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Information Technology

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), No. 444, Prof. Yousef Sobouti Blvd., Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran


Contact information

vasighi iasbs.ac.ir

vasighi gmail.com

+98 24 3315 3378

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), No. 444, Prof. Yousef Sobouti Blvd., Zanjan 45137-66731, Iran



The International Conference on Contemporary Issues In Data Science

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March 5-8, 2019

Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS)

Curriculum vitae

  • Mahdi Vasighi
    Assistant Professor
    vasighi iasbs.ac.ir

Curriculum vitae

Professional Experiences

Assistant Professor
Feb 2012 - Current
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Post-doc Researcher
Feb 2011 - Feb 2012
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Visiting Researcher
Sep 2009 - Oct 2009
Milano Chemometrics and QSAR Research Group, University of Milano - Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Geust Lecturer
Sep 2016 - Current
Pasteur Institute, Tehran, Iran.

Education

Ph.D. in Chemometrics
May 2010
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

M.Sc. in Analytical Chemistry
2002 - 2005
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

B.Sc. in Pure Chemistry
1998 - 2002
Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran.

Teaching

Artificial Neural Networks
Graduate degree at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Computational Data Mining
Graduate degree at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Bioinformatics
Graduate degree at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Statistical Pattern Recognition
Graduate degree at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Multimedia Systems
Undergraduate degree at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology.
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Multivariate Data Analysis
Ph.D. degree at the Department of Biochemistry
Pasteur Institute, Tehran, Iran.

Research Interests

Bioinformatics
Structural Classification of Proteins, Protein-Protein Interaction, Multivariate Analysis

Artificial Neural Networks
Self Organizing Maps with Dynamic Structure, Radial Basis Function Networks

Information Visualization
Linear and Nonlinear Mapping, Toplogy Preservation, Manifold Learning

Executive Experiences

Local Chair
International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Data Science 2019 (CiDaS 19)
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Scientific Committee Member
3rd International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Computer and Information Sciences 2012 (CICIS 12)
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Organizing Chair
2nd International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Computer and Information Sciences 2011 (CICIS 11)
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Scientific Projects and Collaborations

Nuclear magnetic resonance-based screening of thalassemia and quantification of some hematological parameters using chemometric methods
Project 260 at the Pasteur Institute, Tehran, Iran

Determination the risk of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) using 1H NMR spectra of plasma lipoprotein with the help of pattern recognition techniques
Project 443 at the Pasteur Institute, Tehran, Iran

Attended Conferences and Workshops

International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Data Science (CiDaS)
March 2019
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

16th Iranian Chemometrics Workshop
December 2018
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

International Conference on Mathematics of Fuzziness
April 2016
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

The 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Computer and Information Sciences (CICIS'12)
May 2012
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

The 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Computer and Information Sciences (CICIS'11)
May 2011
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

The 3rd Winter School on Computational Geometry
February 2011
Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.

Supervised MSc Thesis

Dynamic Self-Organizing Maps with Modified Growing Phase for Nonlinear Mapping of Data
Masoud Ebrahimi Atani, MSc in Computer Science, July 2019
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Prediction of Proteins Structural Class using Cyclic Cellular Automata Images
Ebrahim Taghipour, MSc in Computer Science, October 2019
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

A Dynamic Neuro-Fuzzy Approach Based on Growing Self-Organizing Map
Erfan Veisi, MSc in Computer Science, October 2018
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Nonlinear Mapping and Visualization of Data in Abstracted Space by Growing Self-Organizing Maps
Javad Mohammadi, MSc in Computer Science, July 2018
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Pattern Classification using Excitation Map in Growing Self-Organizing Map.
Mahboubeh Talebi, MSc in Computer Science, June 2018
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Advisor: Dr. Davide Ballabio

Prediction of Amino Acid Depth in Proteins using Sequence Information and Machine Learning Approach
Mohammad Abbas Shabihi, MSc in Computer Science, August 2017
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Multiple Growing Self-Organizing Map for Classification of Data
Samira Abbasi, MSc in Computer Science, August 2017
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Structural Classification of Proteins Using Wavelet Transform-based Features
Mohammad Hussein Fathi, MSc in Computer Science, February 2017
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Image Segmentation using Growing Neural Gas and High Level Information
Sana Ahmadi, MSc in Computer Science, May 2016
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Parvin Razzaghi

Identification of RNA-binding sites in proteins by reduced PSSM
Marzyyeh Bahrami, MSc in Computer Science, February 2016
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Advisor: Dr. Hamid Hadi-Alijanvand

Ranking Candidate Disease Genes from Gene Expression by Combining Nonlinear Dimension Reduction and Feature Selection
Narges Ghaderi Najafabadi, MSc in Computer Science, February 2016
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Advisor: Dr. Hamid Hadi-Alijanvand

Superivised Learning Approach for Growing Self-Organizing Maps
Monireh Taghilou, MSc in Computer Science, May 2016
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Structural Classification of Proteins using MOLMAP and Supericised Self-Organizing Maps
Mehri Sajedi, MSc in Computer Science, September 2015
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Applying Modified Tabu Search Algorithm for Protein Folding Problem in HP Model
Zohreh Piroozeh, MSc in Computer Science, August 2015
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Hamid Hadi-Alijanvand

Biomedical Image Analysis using Self-Organizing Map
Leila Jafari, MSc in Computer Science, April 2014
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Application of Self-Organizing Maps in Analysisng and Classification of Breast Cancer Microarray Data
Roghayeh Abolghasemi, MSc in Computer Science, April 2014
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Bahram Sadeghi Bigham

Analysis of Biological Sequences by Self-Organizing Map
Fatemeh Khoshkhoo, MSc in Computer Science, April 2014
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Multiple Biological Sequence Alignment using Tabu Search Algorithm
Muhammad Hussein Nazarzadeh, MSc in Computer Science, April 2014
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.

Exploratory Analysis of Excitation-Emission Fluorescence Data from Colorectal Cancer with Oblique Rotation of Factors and Self Organizing Maps
Mohammad Shahbazy, MSc in Computer Science, September 2013
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran.
Co-supervisor: Dr. Mohsen Kompany-Zareh
Advisor: Dr. Davide Ballabio