User:Darrudi

Ehsan Darrudi (born 22 January, 1980) is a Software Engineering graduate in Tehran, Iran.

Full Name
Ehsan Darrudi

Birth
Jan 1980 – Darrud, Iran

Language Proficiency

 * Persian (Farsi): Native
 * English:
 * TOEFL Score: 620 (PBT), Test Date: Oct 15, 2005.
 * GRE General Score: V=390, Q=800, A=2.0, Test Date: Oct 22, 2005

Contact
Ehsan Darrudi Sandooge Hemayat Az Pajooheshgarane Keshvar No. 4/1 – 5th Street – Kargare Shomali Tehran – IRAN Tel: (+98) 21 88003971 (internal: 137) Fax: (+98) 21 88003981 Darrudi@insf.org

Educational Background

 * M.Sc. in Software Engineering, ECE Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
 * B.Sc. in Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University, Mashad, Iran.

Research Background

 * Summer 2003 – March 2005: Research Assistant, Iran Telecom Research Center, Info Society Group, Tehran, Iran. A Member of Project: TeLQAS Question Answering System
 * January 2005 – June 2005: Teaching Assistant for Intelligent Information Retrieval, ECE Dept., Tehran University, Iran. Lecturer: Dr. Farhad Oroumchian University of Wollongong– Dubai Campus, Dubai, UAE (distant lecturer).
 * 2003 - 2004: Assistant and manager of a group of guidance-school students participated in Iran National Karazmi Young Festival. Project: Communication Apparatus for Deaf People (composed of a Speech-to-Text software and a wrist watch vibrator hardware)

Work Experience

 * January 2005 – Present: IT Manager, Iran National Science Foundation (www.insf.org).
 * Summer 2003 – March 2005: Research Assistant, Iran Telecom. Research Center, Info Society Group, Tehran, Iran. A Member of Project: TeLQAS Question Answering System
 * 1999 - 2001: Member of Moon Computer Software Group, Mashad, Iran. Project: Persian Nastealigh Calligrapher. The final software was sold to Azad Islamic University and Ferdowsi University.
 * 1999 - 2000: Analyzer & Programmer, Mechanical Engineering Group, Ferdowsi University, Mashad, Iran. Project:	Mathematical Optimizer Software, research project funded by Ferdowsi University, supervisor: Dr. Ablobashari.

Research Publications

 * Masood Ghayoomi, Ehsan Darrudi: A POS-Based Word Prediction System for the Persian Language. In Proceeding of GoTAL 2008 and in Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence; Vol. 5221 pp. 138-147, 2008.
 * E. Darrudi, F. Oroumchian, M. Rahgozar, M.S. Mirian, K. Neshatian, B.R. Ofoghi, "TeLQAS: a Realization of Humanlike Inferences for Knowledge-based Question Answering Systems, " submitted to the Journal of Computational Linguistics, July 2005.
 * M. Hejzai, M.S. Mirian, K. Neshatian, B.R. Ofoghi, E. Darrudi, "Ontology-based Question Answering System for Telecommunications with Document Extraction & Classification Abilities," (in Persian) to appear in CSI Journal of Computer Science & Engineering, Jan 2005.
 * E. Darrudi, M. Rahgozar, F. Oroumchian, “Human Plausible Reasoning for Question Answering Systems,” In proceeding of Advances in Intelligent Systems - Theory and Applications (AISTA), Luxembourg, November 2004.
 * E. Darrudi, F. Oroumchian, B.R. Ofoghi, “Knowledge-Based Question Answering with Human Plausible Reasoning,” In proceeding of 5th international Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC), Nottingham, England, December 2004.
 * F. Taghiyare, E. Darrudi, F. Oroumchian, N. Angoshtari, “Compression of Persian Text for Web-Based Applications, Without Explicit Decompression,” WSEAS Trans. on COMPUTERS, Greece, October 2003.
 * E. Darrudi, M.R. Hejazi, M. Kharrat, “An Ontology-Based Intelligent Tutoring System,” WSEAS Trans. on INFORMATION SCIENCE and APPLICATIONS, Greece, July 2004.
 * M.S. Mirian, M.R. Hejazi, E. Darrudi, "Finding Answers through a Heuristic Reasoning Mechanism For an Ontology-based Question Answering System", The 2nd International Workshop on Information Technology & its Disciplines (WITID 2004), Kish, Iran, Feb 2004.
 * E. Darrudi, M.R. Hejazi, F. Oroumchian, "Assessment of a Modern Farsi Corpus", The 2nd International Workshop on Information Technology & its Disciplines (WITID 2004), Island, Iran, Feb 2004.
 * F. Oroumchian, E. Darrudi, F. Taghiyare, N. Angoshtari, "Experiments with Persian Text Compression and Entropy for Web-Based Applications", 13th International World Wide Web Conference, New York City, 17-22 May 2004.
 * E. Darrudi, Implementation of Human Plausible Reasoning for the inference engine of TeLQAS (in Persian), Technical Report 83-11, Text Mining Group, Iran Telecom Research Center, Tehran, Iran, 2004.
 * E. Darrudi, Integration of the HPR-enabled reasoning engine with the release version of TeLQAS (in Persian), Technical Report 83-19, Text Mining Group, Iran Telecom Research Center, Tehran, Iran, 2005.

Computer Skills

 * Programming Languages: .NET C#, C++ Builder, Visual C++ 6
 * Databases: MySQL
 * Dynamic Web Design: PHP-MySQL-Apache

Honours

 * First grade student among BSc students in software engineering graduated from Ferdowsi University in Spring 2001 (Summa Cum Laud) and second-grade student among all BSc students graduated from the engineering faculty that year (Ferdowsi University is the biggest and the most important university in Eastern Iran).
 * Third place in the Track & Field contests held by Iran Telecom Research Center in 2003.

My Wikiprojects

 * Iran National Science Foundation
 * Hamshahri Corpus