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    My Name is Reza Shiftehfar. I am a PhD student and Research Assistant in Computer Science department Of Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I joined UIUC in August 2007 and so far have received two additional Masters in Computer Science and Construction Management from UIUC while working on my PhD. During these years and as part of my thesis, I have worked with several professors in Computer Science and Civil Engineering departments of University of Illions, including: Prof. Frank Boukamp, Prof. Karrie G. Karahalios, and Prof. Feniosky Pena-Mora. Currently I am doing my PhD reseach under supervision of Prof. Gul Agha . Here below you can find my biography:

Reza Shiftehfar

ACADEMIC EDUCATION


   
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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          PhD in Computer Science
    Advisor: Prof. Gul Agha
    In progress

          Research Area: A Wireless Sensor Network is a system consisting of hundreds or even thousands of wireless nodes providing a continuous and reliable monitoring infrastructure. Wireless Sensor networks applications ranges from structural health monitoring to target tracking and environmental monitoring. I am currently working on Memory Management and Garbage Collection techniques in ActorNet, a mobile agent platform for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Current memory management and garbage collection techniques used within larger systems cannot directly be used in WSN due to many limitations of sensor nodes, including energy limitations, slower processors, lower communication bandwidth and ,most importantly, very limited memory space.

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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          MCS in Computer Science
    Advisors: Prof. Karrie G. Karahalios and Prof. Feniosky Pena-Mora
    January 2009- Ausgust 2010

          Research Area: Excessive man-made GreenHouse Gases (GHG) are altering the process in which sun's heat is naturally kept in the atmosphere and immediate actions needed to be taken to reduce the amount of these GHG emissions. on the other hand, Mobile computing systems are becomming ubiquitous. My research focused on using these mobile devices, such as Cellphones and PDAs, to bring social awareness toward excessive man-made GreenHouse Gas emissions. I developed system for tracking products' GreenHouse Gas emissions resulted from their transportation using Android-based cell phones and used visualization techniques to visualize it in real time. some early results of the system can be viewed at here .

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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          MSc in Civil Engineering-Construction Management
    Advisor: Prof. Frank Boukamp
    September 2007- May 2009

          Dissertation: A Framework for Leveraging Random RFID Clouds for On-site Location Sensing

    Abstract:With the increased interest in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the construction industry and related research efforts, future construction sites can be expected to carry an abundance of RFID tags. These RFID tags at site have the potential to be leveraged for indoor location tracking, thereby replacing expensive infrastructure required by current indoor location tracking systems. This thesis studies the problem of location tracking of a mobile RFID reader on a construction site based on the available RFID tags. The proposed algorithm uses initial recorded data to predict the location of a mobile reader based on the availability of RFID tags in the area and the received signal strength of each tag. The study then evaluates the performance of the proposed system in both computer simulation and real case studies in different types of constructions ranging from office buildings to typical residential structures. Different possible scenarios including failure or removal of several tags, addition of new tags and finally displacement of some of the existing tags are considered during the test cases. The results indicate that the system is not only able to identify the location of the mobile reader but also is adaptive to the mentioned possible alterations in the configuration and location of tags within an RFID tag cloud.
  • International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology(IIEES) combined program with Science & Research Branch of Azad Univeristy
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          M.Sc. in Civil Engineering- Earthquake Engineering
    Advisor: Prof. Abdoreza S. Moghadam
    September 2002- September 2006

          Dissertation: "Near-failur Behavior of Fixed Jacket-type Offshore Platforms"
  • Sharif University of Technology
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          B.Sc. in Civil Engineering
    September 1997- September 2002

  • Alborz High School: Diploma, Math & Physics Concentrations, September 1993-September 1997


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    Reza Shiftehfar

    HONORS & AWARDS


       

       

  • Silver (2010) and Bronze (2009) Award in Sustainable E-Waste Design Competition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Sponsored and Judged by Dell, Microsoft, Motorola, and Wal-Mart), 2009 & 2010

  • Global Innovation Tournament Award, Technology Entrepreneur Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008

  • Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) Chicago Chapter Award for Achievements as a graduate student, 2008, 2009 and 2010 awards

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    CERTIFICATES


       

       

  • Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-Core Processors Certificate, Virtual schoo of computational science and engineering, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Urbana, Illinois, August 6, 2010 2010

  • Multicore Programming Certificate, Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) summer school, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 22-26, 2009

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    Reza Shiftehfar

    MEDIA COVERAGE


       

       

  • Discovery Channel, Tech News – Electronic Waste Produces Algae for Biofuel , 05.02.2010

  • News Bureaus of Illinois, “Student team score high in International E-waste Design Competition” , by Sharita Forrest, 06.08.2010

  • Daily Illini, The independent Student Newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871, volume 138, Issue 138, 04.17.2009,

  • BIOMASS Magazine, “Algae gworth device made from computer parts” , by Lisa Gibson, 05.20.2010

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    PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS


       

       

  • “Visualization of Green House Emission”, Computer Science Graduate Expo, Poster presentation, April 2010, Champaign, Illinois
  • “Application of Visualization for Construction Emission Monitoring”, Innovation for Reshaping Construction Practice, Construction Research Congress 2010, May 8-11, 2010, Alberta, Canada
  • “Construction Equipment Emission Monitoring System - Opportunities, Benefits & Challenges”, 6th International Conference on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC), State College, Pennsylvania, June 9-11, 2010
  • “Construction Emission Monitoring System”, The international conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (icccbe), Nottingham, UK, June 30- July 2, 2010.
  • “Construction Emission Monitoring for Intelligent & Integrated Sustainable Construction (I2SC)”, Construction Industry Institute (CII) annual conference, Reno, Nevada, July 28-30, 2009
  • “A Framework for Managing Emissions during Construction”, International Conference and Workshop on Sustainable Green Building Design And Construction, Cairo, Egypt, March 9th -12th 2009
  • “Semantic Relationships between On-site RFID tags – Opportunities, Benefits and Challenges”, Proceeding of CIB-W78, International Conference on Information Technology in Construction, July 2008, Chile
  • “Semantic RFID Network for Information Management on Construction Sites”, ASCE Construction Research Council (CRC) Poster Session, Chicago, 2008

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    Reza Shiftehfar

    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


       
  • Namvaran consulting Engineering & Manageing Company
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          September 2000- August 2007
          Building Information Modelling (BIM):
  • 4D modeling of the Ammonia & Urea complex project
  • 4D modeling of the offshore platforms

    • Software Development:
  • Weight Control System (WCP software) for the purpose of weight control engineering and design of the offshore projects
  • Efficiency and Productivity system (E&P web-based system) for improvement of the engineering and drafting Performance Index (PI)
  • Document Managing System (DMS web-based system)
  • Subcontractor’s work management system for control of the engineering services offered by the subcontractors
  • Civil, Structural & Architectural (CSA) department's web
  • Matrix Structural Analysis of Offshore Structures (MSAOS) for the purpose of analyzing offshore jacket structures

    • Design & Construction:
  • Detail design and construction supervision of Karun pulp and paper plant project
  • Design of Ramsar, Noor, Neka & GhaleJigh gas compressor stations project
  • Design of Gol-E-Gohar iron ore expansion project
  • Integrity, conceptual and basic design of offshore platform project in Foroozan-Esfandiar oil field development
  • ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditing
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    Reza Shiftehfar

    COMPUTER SKILLS


       
    Programming Languages:
  • Object Oriented Languages
        Java (also VTK & Processing), C++, Turbo Pascal
  • Functional Programming
        OCAML
  • Others
        C, Visual Basic, Assembly(MIPS) , Fortran, SQL

    • Project Control software:
        Microsoft Project, Primavera Project Planner for the enterprise (P3e), Expedition

    BIM/CAD/CAM/GIS:
  • Bocad3d ( 3D modeling program for the preparation of the engineering and fabrication drawings of steel structures and the workshop management)
  • Tekla Structures ( 3D modeling program to produce engineering and fabrication drawings)
  • PDMS (3d modeling software for plant designing)
  • AutoCAD

    • Structural analyzing and design:
  • SACS (Structural Aided Computer Software, Offshore Designing program)
  • SAP (General purpose structural and earthquake analyzing software)
  • Etabs (Residential structural designing program)
  • Safe (Slabs & foundation designing program)
  • Ansys (General purpose finite element analyzing program)
  • Staad Pro (General Purpose structural and earthquake analyzing software)
  • Mat3D & Foundation3D (Foundation design program)

    • Web designing:
  • HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP

    • Other software:
        MS-Office Software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), Matlab, Mathcad, Adobe family (Photoshop, Premiere), Mathematica

    Reza Shiftehfar

    TEACHING EXPERIENCE


       
    Academic Training Courses:
    - Teaching Assistant and Lab Instructor for CS101, Introduction to Computing for Engineers and Physical Scientists, University of Illinois, 2010 - Static course for the candidates of the M.Sc. entrance exam
    - Solid Mechanic course for the candidates of the M.Sc. entrance exam
    CAD/CAM Traiging Course:
    - The elementary and advanced courses on Building Information Modelling
    - Macro programming course for civil Engineers

    Engineering Software Training Courses:
    - A complete course on SAP2000 software
    - An advanced course on SACS software ( a structural software for the analysis and design of offshore structures)

     
             
     

    © 2010 Reza Shiftehfar, University of Illinois, Last updated on August 2010