I am passionate about studying and thinking about
how and why people think, feel, behave, and interact
in the real world.
I am a PhD graduate in computational cognitive science at Institute for Cognitive & Brain Sciences (ICBS) at Shahid Beheshti University (SBU) in Tehran, Iran. I'm currently working on game theoretic methods in cognitive science that focuses on cognitive mechanisms involved in prediction of cooperative behavior in social situations.
Based on my educational background, my approach is multi-disciplinary and I'll try to synthesize different aspects of nature investigations, such as computational, experimental and philosophical in my researches. As a researcher in cognitive science, I'm interested in learning from a broad range of fields, with a special focuses on Social Cognition, NeuroPhilosophy, NeuroEthics, NeuroAesthetics, NeuroEconomics, Human-Computer Interaction, and especially Human Reasoning and Human Consciousness.
Furthermore, I've always involved myself in the market and business. Over the years, I've experienced various activities in different companies, from FPGA programming to preparing technical documentation for broadcasting systems, as well as leading e-commerce and digital marketing teams in startup companies. I'm also currently supervising digital marketing teams, and working as business development manager in a full service marketing and advertising agency.
Thesis: Structural Model of Cognitive Mechanisms involved in Prediction of Cooperative Behavior in Social Situations; Based on Theory of Mind and Game Theory
Thesis: The Problem of Induction; A Bayesian Approach to Inductive Reasoning
Seminar I: Relativity and Geometry; Philosophical Aspects of Modern Cosmology
Seminar II: The Possibility of Cooperation; The Cognitive and Philosophical Aspects of Cooperation Behavior
Thesis: Analysis of Radio Telescope Antenna (Big Ear) using S-NEC
Key Responsibilities:
1) Implementing a user research project to developing a Safety Management Software (SMS).
2) Leading a market analysis team to monitor and evaluate competitors.
3) Prioritizing product features and capabilities based on research and stakeholder requirements.
4) Planning and defining scrum sprints based on product backlog and involving with development team in daily activities.
1) Acquiring data from sources and Analyzing data using statistical techniques.
2) Providing reports and interpreting patterns to stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
1) Preparing and reviewing product backlog.
2) Holding scrum meetings and providing feedback to Product Manager.
3) Defining iteration and stories (epics and sub-stories) in collaboration with product manager.
Key Responsibilities:
1) Preparing more than 50 marketing plans for various industries such as banking, health, food, services, and so on.
Key Responsibilities:
1) Modeling the effectiveness of outdoor advertising based on traffic data collected in urban areas.
2) Designing and implementing neuromarketing projects and customer behavior analysis for the food and detergent industries.
Key Responsibilities:
1) Negotiating with effective agencies in marketing and advertising field in order to achieve common goals.
2) Organizing an international conference on outdoor advertising (OOH) and new technologies in collaboration with Tehran Municipality.
3) Launching interactive advertising project in collaboration with Bamland Shopping Mall.
Key Responsibilities:
1) Co-founding and launching 3 startups including Philo (Experience Sharing Platform), ArvinIO (Data Gathering and Questionnaire Platform) and Shemshad (E-Commerce) with more than 50,000 users.
2) Preparing vision, roadmap, business model and other business documents.
3) Managing more than 50 people who worked in different startup teams.
Key Responsibilities:
1) Preparing media plan and marketing strategy for digital marketing campaigns based on campaign goals and KPIs.
2) Collaborating with digital marketing agencies and strategic partners to optimize digital marketing campaigns.
Key Responsibilities:
1) Following up new business opportunities in industry and setting up meetings with funders.
2) Negotiating with Chinese and Dubai business partners to import goods (especially Xiaomi products).
Key Responsibilities:
1) Managing R&D team for the development of hardware and software products in machine vision and robotics.
2) Managing the ANPR project (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) with the participation of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran.
Key Responsibilities:
1) Designing, developing, coding, testing, debugging, and implementing software of embedded devices and systems.
Key Responsibilities:
1) Providing user guide, white paper and, instructions for technical processes and procedures.
Title: Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience
Reference: Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience – Izhikevich
Title: Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics
Reference: Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics – Albert
Title: Philosophy of Quantum Information
Reference: Philosophy of Quantum Information and Entanglement – Bokulich
Title: Social Epistemology
Reference: Social Epistemology - Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar, and Duncan Pritchard
Title: Cognitive Psychology
Reference:Philosophy and the Neurosciences: A Reader - William Bechtel
Cognitive Game Theory Group
Supervisor: Prof. Madjid Eshaghi Gordji
Laboratory of Brain–Computer Interface (BCI)
Supervisor: Prof. Reza Ghaderi
An EEG-Based Motor Imagery Brain Computer Interface
Laboratory of Brain Signals and Images Analysis
Supervisor: Prof. Gholamreza Jafari
Screening of Autism Based on Task-Free fMRI Using Wavelet Transform Method
Supervisor: Prof. Hamidreza Pouretemad
Tree of Knowledge of Cognitive Science
Epistemology and Philosophy of Cognitive Science, UI, Isfahan, Iran
Problem of Induction and Bayesian Approach, UI, Isfahan, Iran
Philosophy of Quantum Information, UI, Isfahan, Iran
Digital Image and Video Processing, Xrobox Robotic Group, Tehran, Iran.
Radio Cosmology and Radio Astronomy Data Analysis, ZNU, Zanjan, Iran.
Member of Iranian Society for Cognitive Science and Technology
Member of Iranian Association for Popularization of Science (IAPS)
Member of Scientific Society of Philosophy (University of Isfahan)
Member of Iranian Association of Social Psychology
3 day workshop on fMRI data analysis (IPM 2018)
2 day workshop on Principles of Neural Coding (IPM 2017)
6th Summer School in Analytic Philosophy: Internalism and Externalism: Content, Cognition and Norm (IPM 2016)
5th Summer School in Analytic Philosophy: Topics in Philosophy of Mind (IPM 2015)