User:Shahbaz Youssefi


 * This article is about Shahbaz Youssefi.

Significant Locations
1986-2004: As a child, I was grown up in Mashad, Iran.

1988-1992: I have visited Isfahan, Shiraz, Tehran and Frankfurt around these years (I'm not exactly sure).

1999: I had a trip to Paris, a small town in Germany and a small visit to the Netherlands. It was around my birthday; Aug 28th. I have seen the counter on the Eiffel tower counting down to 0 indicating year 2000. At the time I was there, it was around 125, I don't remember exactly. It was me, my younger brother and my father.

2003: Again with my father and my younger brother, I had a trip to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Although you couldn't find much of the things you couldn't find in Iran and so it was not any good for shopping, but the environment was really great. It was all gardens. In fact, there was no island between boulevards, it was all streets between parks!

2004-2009: I lived in Tehran. I studied software engineering in the University of Tehran. In fact, the meaning of software engineering is a bit different in Iran. It means computer science!

2007: My first trip to a foreign country, alone! During the summer, I came to work (as an intern) in the University of Tokyo, Japan. It was arranged by the IAESTE and so everything was made in a way to maximize culture exchange; living in a host family, events etc.

2009-2010: Studied in WUT, Poland in EMARO, a course in advanced robotics as an Erasmus Mundus program.

2009-current: Countless trips within Europe.

2009: During the Christmas break, I went to Turkey and visited Istanbul, Galipoli, Troy, Ephesus, Antalya and Konya.

2010: During the summer, I went to the United States and visited my friends. I went to Rochester (NY), New York City and Los Angeles. I stayed then with my aunt for a month in Lake Villa, near Chicago.

2010-current: Completed the second year of EMARO program in Genova, Italy and continued there as a PhD student.

2013: Went on a trip to Saigon, south of Vietnam. Best. Food. Ever.

Schools
1992-1994: The first two years of my elementary school was spent in Saliani elementary school. A school in Mashad, not very famous at all.

1994-1997: To study the next three years of elementary school, I moved to Ebtekar. Again, somewhere near where we were living. That school was nothing special either.

1997-2000: I was chosen as an intelligent student along with another 95 in Mashad. I changed school to NODET(SAMPAD) guidance school. It was fun, all the changes, laboratories, additional knowledge and of course other intelligent beings!!

2000-2004: All of us except one were accepted to stay in NODET to study in high school along with an additional 25 people. It was not as good in high school, but still being with smart friends was a good push to make me work harder on math. It was in high school that I started to specifically like discrete mathematics.

2004-2009: I studied in the University of Tehran in software engineering for my B.Sc studies.

2009-2010: I studied in Warsaw University of Technology in EMARO for the first year of my M.Sc studies.

2010-2011: I studied in Università degli Studi di Genova in the second year of EMARO M.Sc program.

2012-current: I am currently studying in Università degli Studi di Genova as a PhD student in Robotics.

Interests
- Traveling and meeting new people

- Mathematical Puzzles

- Dancing Lindy Hop

- Playing the electric guitar

- Hiking

- Swimming

- Playing video games

- Programming specially in C, C++ and OpenGL, with a bit of Haskell if I find the chance.