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ABOUT ME
Unlike other children of my age, I have always dreamt about being a "scientist" one day, whatever "scientist" meant to one back then. Although little I knew of what actually being a scientist mean in real world, the ambition of making this dream happen got me where I am today. I am a third year PhD student in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a focus on simulation optimization in data analysis.
In my free time I often play board games with my friends, read fiction books or spend time with my cat, Joey. I also try to practice yoga regularly and love my daily few minutes of meditaion.
EDUCATION
My Studies
August 2014-July 2018
BSC INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
My senior project was concentrated on time series forecasting of Iran's stock values. I applied various methods such as ARCH and ARIMA in SAS and gained ~%80 accuracy in my predictions.
August 2018- Dec 2020
MASTER OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Obtained in depth knowledge of mathematical programming and stochastic optimization.
August 2018- May 2023
PHD OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Received my minor in Statistics. Have been working with Dr. Sara Shashaani on developing solutions for stochastic combinatorial optimization in data-driven problems.
PUBLICATIONS
published and under review
K. Vahdat and S. Shashaani, “Simulation optimization based feature selection, a study on data-driven optimization with input uncertainty,” inProceedings of the 2020 Winter Simulation Conference. IEEE, 2020, pp. 2149–2160.
L. Mao, K. Vahdat, S. Shashaani, J. Swann, "Personalized Predictions for Unplanned Urinary Tract Infection Hospitalizations with Hierarchical Clustering", 2020 INFORMS Conference on Service Science.
Selected as one of the top finalists in the student paper competition
S. Shashaani, K. Vahdat, "Simulation Optimization Based Feature Selection", 2020 (under review).
MY SKILLS
My handy toolbox
OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Mathematical, Linear and Integer Programming,
Simulation, Stochastic and Combinatorial Optimization,
Meta-heuristic Search Algorithms.
DATA SCIENCE
Predictive Analytics,
Data and Quantitative Analysis,
Deep Learning and Text Analysis,
Forecasting and Time Series Analysis,
Data Mining and Visualization Tools,
Statistical and Machine Learning Algorithms.
PROGRAMMING
Languages: R, Python, SAS, MATLAB, C#, C, SQL
Packages: caret, dplyr, Pandas, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch
Statistical and Visualization Software: JMP, Tableau, Visual Paradigm, Power BI
Colin Powell, former U.S. Defense Secretary
"A dream does not become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work"
