CURRICULUM VITAE

 

SamanSaman Taghavi Zargar

Email: sam_taghavi@ieee.org or sam_taghavi@computer.org or taghavizargar@acm.org

Personal Homepage: http://www.neja.ir/~s.taghavi or http://member.acm.org/~taghavizargar or http://www.samantaghaviz.com

 

Academic Career

Undergraduate Study:

  • BSc, Computer Engineering (Software), Azad University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, September 2004.
    Thesis: “Universal University Content Management Systems”

Graduate Study:

  • MSc, Computer Engineering (Software), Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, July 2007.
    Thesis: “A New Method for Generating Synthetically Traffic Matrices, Applicable for Traffic Engineering Tasks”

 

Awards, Contests won and etc.

·   Summa cum Laude M.Sc. Student, Computer Engineering Department, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, 2007.

·   Awarded outstanding B.Sc. Student, for being accepted into graduate studies program, Computer Engineering Department, Azad University, Mashhad, 2004.

·   Top 1% of the country, (ranked 228th among about 20,000 computer engineering students) in National Entrance Exam for Graduate Studies in Software Engineering Major, Iran, 2004.

·   Top 1% of the country (ranked 3500 among about 350,000 high school students) in Nationwide University Entrance Exam in Engineering/Math/Science, Iran, 1999.

·  Ranked 2nd among over 150 students, Malek Ashtar High school, Mashhad, Iran, 1999.

 

Research interests

  • Security issues in network.
  • Traffic management and measurement, and traffic engineering.
  • Active queue management, congestion control, queuing theory.
  • Real-time and embedded systems.
  • Parallel and distributed computing.
  • Communication issues in parallel, distributed, and grid systems.
  • Intelligent transportation and communication systems.

 

Publications

Journals:

     

      2005

8.    Vahid Salmani, Saman Taghavi Zargar, and Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, “A Modified Maximum Urgency First Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Tasks”, the 7th World Enformatika Conference, Enformatika Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology Vol.9, No.4, November 25-27, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.

  Conference Papers:

    

      2009

7.      Saman Taghavi Zargar, M. Amir Moulavi, Rajkumar Buyya, Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, and James B. D. Joshi, “RRNA: Reliable Soft Real-Time Network Aware Grid Scheduling Algorithm Using Round Trip Time”, to be published in the 12th Communications and Networking Simulation Symposium (CNS'09), March 22-27, 2009, San Diego, CA.

      2008

6.   Saman Taghavi Zargar, and Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee, “Optimizing Network Routing to Minimize Congestion, Using the Conqueror Traffic Based Synthetically Generated Traffic Matrices”, the 5th annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2008), January 10-12, 2008, Las Vegas, NV, USA.

      2007

5.   Saman Taghavi Zargar, and Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee, “A Conqueror Traffic Based Ranking Metrics Heuristic for Assigning Synthetically Generated Traffic Matrices to a Topology”, the 2nd IEEE International Conference on COMmunication System softWAre and middlewaRE (COMSWARE 2007), January 7-12, 2007, Bangalore, India.

      2006

4.    Saman Taghavi Zargar, Amin Milani Fard, Mohammad Hossein Yaghmaee, “Fuzzy Proactive Queue Management Technique”, IEEE INDICON 2006, September 15-17, 2006, New Delhi, India

 

3.    Saman Taghavi Zargar, Vahid Salmani, and Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, “MMUF: An Optimized Scheduling Algorithm for Dynamically Reconfigurable Real-Time Systems”, the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: from Theory to Applications (ICTTA’06), April 24-28, 2006, Damascus, Syria.     

      2005

2.      Vahid Salmani, Saman Taghavi Zargar, and Mahmoud Naghibzadeh, “A Modified Maximum Urgency First Scheduling Algorithm for Real-Time Tasks”, the 7th World Enformatika Conference, Vol.9, November 25-27, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey.

 

 1.    Mahdi Alipour, Saman Taghavi Zargar, Saeed Rahati Ghuchani, and Salman Salmi, “Universal University Content Management Systems”, The 1st Conference on IT, Software & e-city, ELECIT2004(Oct, 2004), Mashhad, Iran.

 

Principal Teaching Experiments

Lecturer at Islamic Azad University, spring 2008, Mashhad, Iran

-    Computer Networks

-    Fundamentals of Computer and Programming

Lecturer at Khorasan Advanced Training Center, fall 2006 – spring 2007, Mashhad, Iran

-    Computer Networks & Internet engineering

-    Operating Systems

Lecturer at Khorasan Industrial and Scientific Advanced Training Center, fall 2005 – spring 2007 Mashhad, Iran

      - Computer Networks

      - Fundamentals of Computer and Programming

      - Fundamentals of Information Technology

      - Advanced Programming

      - Operating Systems

      - Network Security

Lecturer at Jahad University, spring 2006 – spring 2007, Mashhad, Iran

      - Computer Networks & Internet engineering

             - Network Security

      Lecturer at Islamic Azad University, Sama, fall 2006 – spring 2007, Mashhad, Iran

            - Operating Systems

     Lecturer at Khorasan Trade Training Center, fall 2006 – spring 2007, Mashhad, Iran

        - Network Security

Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran

    - Teacher's Assistant - Logic Circuit, winter 2004

    - Teacher's Assistant - Compiler Design, winter 2004

    - Teacher's Assistant - Formal Languages and Machines Theory, winter 2004 and spring 2005.

 

Principal Technical and Research Experiments

·         Adonis Co., Mashhad, Iran, Network & Computer Administrator, 2002-2008.

·         Nesbi Seifi Co., Mashhad, Iran, Network & Computer Administrator, 2004-2008.

·         Other Ceram Co., Mashhad, Iran, Administrative Manager, 2002-2008.

·         Other Computer Co., Mashhad, Iran, System & Network Administrator, 2002-2008.

·         Communication and Computer Research Center, FUM, Mashhad, Iran, Researcher, 2005-2007.

 

Services

·    Reviewer of the International Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, 2008. 

·    Technical team member (One of the 23 Judges) of the second edition of IEEEXtreme Xtreme2, 8-9 March 2008, IEEEXtreme 24 hour programming challenge.   

·    Reviewer of the third conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT 07), 27-29 November 2007, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.   

·    Data security & encryption track assistant of the third conference on Information and Knowledge Technology (IKT 07), 27-29 November 2007, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran.

 

Committees and Membership

2006 – Now – IEEE Graduate member.

2006 – Now – Member of IEEE Computer Society.

2006 – Now – Member of IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc).

2006 – Now – ACM Student member.

2006 – Now – Member of International Association of Engineers (IAENG).

2005 – 2006, Member of Nexus Soccer Simulation Team, Computer Department, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran.

2005 – Now – Senior Member of Young Iranian Elites Association.

2005 – 2007, Member of Communication and Computer Research Center, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran.

2002 – 2004, Member of Computer Association, Azad University, Mashhad, Iran.

 

Professional Skills

1.      Analyze, Design, and Troubleshoot Network.

2.      Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming, Fuzzy Systems.

3.      Programming Languages such as (C++, C#.net, Delphi, Pascal).

4.      Operating Systems (Microsoft Windows: All Versions - Linux: RedHat, SuSE, and slakware distribution).

5.      Network Simulator (NS2), MATLAB.

6.      MCSE (Microsoft Certificate Systems Engineer) Including: Windows Application Development, Windows Advanced Server 2000, Active Directory, and Network Infrastructure. From ITC Co. 2001-2003.

7.      MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) Including: Windows XP Professional, Solution Architecture, Designing and Implementing Databases with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. Self-Study and some work experiences 2004-2007

8.      Security +, A+, Self-Study and work experiences, 2003-2007.

9.      CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Administrator), Self-Study and work experiences, 2002 -2004.

Languages

·         Farsi (Mother tongue)

·         English (Excellent)

·         Spanish (Elementary)

·         Arabic (Intermediate)

References

·         Available Upon Request

Hobbies

Computer games, Driving, Horse riding, Swimming, and Hunting.

                                                                                             

Last updated: October 19, 2008