CV

EDUCATION

PhD in Bioinformatics - University of British Columbia 2021 - Present

Supervised by Dr. Inanc Birol
Member of the Bioinformatics Technology Lab at BC Cancer’s Genome Sciences Centre

MSc in Computer Engineering (AI) - University of Isfahan 2019 - 2021

Supervised by Dr. Hossein Karshenas
Thesis: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Training Intelligent Agents in Natural Language Environments
GPA: 18.42/20

BSc in Computer Engineering (Software) - University of Isfahan 2015 - 2019

Supervised by Dr. Afsaneh Fatemi
Thesis: Predicting Persian Twitter Users’ MBTI Personality Using Text Mining Methods
GPA: 18.25/20
Received CEng Faculty’s Distinguished Student Award
Participated in ICPC West Asia Regionals (2016, 2017 ranked 16th)
Participated in Robocup IranOpen 2D Soccer Simulation League 2017
Participated in National Computer Engineering Olympiad Finals

EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant - Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre 2021 - Present

Teaching Assistant - University of Isfahan 2016 - 2020

Courses: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithm Design, Data Structures and Algorithms, Advanced Programming, Computer Fundamentals, Discrete Mathematics, Technical English

ACM Students Chapter Member - University of Isfahan 2017 - 2019

Coached teams selected for ICPC West Asia Regionals 2020
Problem creator for University of Isfahan’s annual high-school students’ programming contest
Technical committee member for University of Isfahan’s AI challenges
Python course instructor
Presenter at University of Isfahan’s research week 2020 on NLP

PUBLICATIONS

btllib: A C++ library with Python interface for efficient genomic sequence processing 2022
Nikolić, V., Kazemi, P., Coombe, L., Wong, J., Afshinfard, A., Chu, J., Warren, R. L., & Birol, I. (2022). btllib: A C++ library with Python interface for efficient genomic sequence processing. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(79), 4720. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04720

ntHash2: recursive spaced seed hashing for nucleotide sequences 2022
Kazemi, P., Wong, J., Nikolić, V., Mohamadi, H., Warren, R., & Birol, I. (2022). ntHash2: recursive spaced seed hashing for nucleotide sequences. Bioinformatics.

Fuzzy Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation 2021
Kazemi, P., & Karshenas, H. (2022). Fuzzy Word Sense Induction and Disambiguation. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 30(9), 3918-3927.

SELECTED PROJECTS

University of Isfahan’s Alumni Social Website - Backend Developer (Django)

SKILLS & INTERESTS

Programming Langauges: Python, C++, Java
Deep Learning: Keras, PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers
Others: Linux, LaTeX, Git
Keywords: Bioinformatics, De novo Genome Assembly, Natural Language Processing, Software Engineering, Machine Learning

LANGUAGES

Persian - Native
Mother Tongue

English - Fluent
TOEFL iBT Score: 117/120 (R: 30, L: 29, S: 30, W: 28)

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