M.S. Computer Science

Sep 2024 - Dec 2025

University of California, Riverside (UCR)

GPA: 3.66

Relevant Coursework (selected): Advanced Software Testing, Big Data Analytics (Spark), Data Mining/ML, Operating Systems (XV6), Compilers/LLVM, Computer Security & Cryptography, Computational Biology

Selected Graduate Projects: Pixel-only video watermarking (cryptographic verification), XV6 file system extensions (large files + symlinks), Android static analysis tooling

B.S. Computer Engineering

Sep 2018 - Feb 2023

Urmia University

GPA: 3.22

Entrance: Admitted through the National Entrance Exam, ranking in the top 6.5% of all test-takers

Honors: Dean’s List (6 semesters)

Graduate Student Researcher Award (UCR)

2024

Selected for fully funded research position

Merit-Based Tuition Waiver Scholarship

2024

Constructor Institute, Switzerland

Merit-Based Global Silver Excellence Scholarship

2024

University of Salford, United Kingdom

Copy Multiple Files Content - JetBrains IDE Plugin + VS Code Extension

Jul 2025 - Aug 2025

Kotlin, IntelliJ Platform SDK (PSI/VFS), TypeScript

• Engineered recursive traversal, deduplication, binary-file skipping, and safe reading of live editor buffers for large repos (tested up to 25k+ files)
• Shipped multimode export (compact + token-efficient format), compressing prompt payload to ~30% while preserving structure
• Reached 500+ downloads in less than 3 months through iterative release improvements and documentation

Android Static Analysis Plugin - Execution Path Enumeration (CCFGs)

Feb 2025 - Mar 2025

Java, IntelliJ PSI

• Built Android Studio plugin to enumerate executable control-flow paths across loops/conditionals/exceptions and inter-class calls via PSI traversal
• Added recursion/loop safeguards (depth limiting + visited tracking), cutting analysis time by 65% on cyclic method graphs

Megatron: Efficient Training of Billion-Parameter Transformers - Graduate Seminar (UCR)

May 2025

ISAAC: CNN Accelerator with In-Situ Analog Arithmetic - Graduate Seminar (UCR)

May 2025

Trustworthy AI: What 600K attacks reveal about LLM vulnerabilities - Graduate Seminar (UCR)

Nov 2025

FlashNest (Google Play) - Android Engineer / Android Developer

Jul 2023 - Jan 2026

Riverside, CA

Built and shipped an Android learning app for creating and studying flashcards with AI-assisted tutoring.

• Architected an offline-first Android app using MVVM + Clean Architecture (UI/domain/data layers), accelerating feature delivery by 30% and reducing cross-feature coupling by 35%
• Designed a reusable Jetpack Compose component system (Material 3, theming, state hoisting), cutting UI regressions by 40% and improving key screen load time by 25%
• Built local persistence with Room (schema migrations + indexing) and resilient background jobs via WorkManager, enabling fully offline study and lowering sync-related defects by 60%
• Hardened networking with Retrofit + OkHttp (timeouts, retries, caching, interceptors), decreasing failed requests by 35% in poor connectivity conditions
• Integrated on-device sentence-transformers embeddings for semantic features (similarity/related concepts), achieving ~60ms median inference latency per query on mid-range devices
• Optimized embedding + search pipeline (batching, caching, lightweight indexing), shrinking peak memory by 25% and improving median response time by 45%
• Re-architected state management and pagination using Kotlin Coroutines/Flow and Paging 3, lowering stale-UI and double-load edge cases by 50% and improving scroll smoothness by 20%
• Instrumented crash reporting/analytics to prioritize fixes, lowering crash rate by 55% and sustaining 99.6% crash-free sessions among test users
• Automated CI with GitHub Actions (build + unit tests + lint), decreasing regressions by 45% and cutting release verification time by 40%
• Improved startup performance with baseline profile + lazy initialization, shrinking cold start time by 20%
• Managed release workflows (versioning, ProGuard/R8, Play Console staged rollouts), maintaining stable rollouts with rollback-ready monitoring
• Authored developer + user documentation (setup, troubleshooting, release notes), shortening onboarding/support time by 50%

University of California, Riverside - Teaching Assistant

Sep 2025 - Dec 2025

Riverside, CA

• Facilitated weekly discussion sections and coordinated grading/rubrics/feedback for 120+ students, maintaining consistent evaluation across groups
• Designed assignment specs, rubrics, and exemplars to align with learning objectives, increasing group activity collaboration by 18% and bringing down regrade requests by 30%
• Lectured 100+ students in an 80-minute guest session, increased next week’s attendance by 10%, and group activity score by 12%
• Streamlined grading workflow (templates + tracking + QA passes), cutting turnaround time from 10 days to 7 days (~30% faster)

University of California, Riverside - Graduate Student Researcher

Sep 2024 - Mar 2025

Riverside, CA

• Built Python ETL pipelines (validation + normalization) over multi-source datasets totaling 5M+ rows, saving 70% manual preprocessing time
• Applied ML trend analysis and synthesized outcomes into 12 stakeholder-ready research deliverables used in ongoing project decisions
• Redesigned research website information architecture and navigation, improving content discoverability and lowering bounce rate by 35%
• Automated repeatable reporting (plots + tables) for research updates, decreasing weekly reporting effort by 50%

Karaj Municipality - Software Engineer (Remote Internship)

Jun 2022 - Sep 2022

Karaj, Iran

• Upgraded the website’s front-end and optimized backend performance by 30% through code refinement and testing
• Developed a self-hosted email service on Ubuntu using MailU and Docker, lowering costs by more than 70%

Walk4Less (Kharazmi University) - Android Developer

Jun 2021 - Aug 2022

Tehran, Iran

• Engineered an Android application and a custom-designed API powered by AI techniques to optimize pick-up and drop-off locations, reducing ride-hailing costs by up to 20%