Samira recieved her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS), Florida International University (FIU), Miami, USA, 2019. She has years of research and development experiences in computer science. She received the Master degree in Artificial Intelligence-Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (SUT) in 2012. Her research interests include machine learning, deep learning, data science, and multimedia big data mining. She has published over 30 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

• Data Science
• Multimedia information retrieval
• Machine learning and Data Mining
• Deep learning
• Image/audio/video processing
• Healthcare informatics
• Big Data

Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA				Date: Fall 2014 - 2019
	GPA: 3.93
Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence - Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran				Date: Sep 2010 - Sep 2012
	GPA: 3.61 Dissertation topic: Music Emotion Recognition
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering - Computer Engineering at University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran				Date: Sep 2005 - Jan 2009
	GPA: 3.72

• Overall Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the School of Computing and Information Sciences, FIU
• Best oral paper presentation at FIU GSAW 2017 and 2018
• FIU SGA Graduate Scholarship 2016
• BPDM scholarship and travel grant of ACM SIGKDD 2016 conference
• NSF travel Support to participate in the ICME 2016 Student Program
• 2016 and 2017 CRA Women Grad Cohort Scholarship
• Ranked in the top 1% in the CIS graduate program at FIU, 2014-2016
• Received Graduate Assistantship from Florida International University, since Fall 2014
• Travel grant of Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML 2013)
• Admitted to the MSc Program (ranked 50 out of 25000 participants) in Computer Engineering at Sharif University of Technology, ranked first among Iran universities
• Won 20 medals in gymnastics and Swimming in local and national competitions in Iran

• Vice President of the Computer Science Graduate Student Committee at FIU
• External reviewer of top journals including ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transaction of Multimedia, Transactions on Services Computing, and many conferences.
• Session chair in the IEEE ISM 2016 in California, USA.
• Student volunteer in the ACM SIGKDD 2016 in California, USA
• Student volunteer in the IEEE ISM 2015 in Florida, USA.
• Student volunteer in the Web Information System Engineering (WISE) 2015 conference in Florida, USA.

• CIS 5027 -- Computer Systems Fundamentals -- School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, USA


• Speech Processing/Recognition -- Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran


• Artificial Intelligence Planning -- Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran


• CE40957 -- Neural network and Fuzzy systems - Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology, Iran

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