RESUME

Personal information:
• First and last name: Mehdi Mafi
• Cell phone: +1-305-979-3006, E-mail: mafi.em@gmail.com
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/MehdiMafi

Academic background:
Aug. 2015 – Dec. 2019: Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
o University: Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Aug. 2015 – Dec. 2019: Master of science in Computer Engineering (Master en route to Ph.D.)
o University: Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA
Jan. 2010 – Mar. 2012: Master of science in Telecommunication - ICT
o University: Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
Research area:
Machine learning, Computer vision, Image processing, Data science & Statistics

Selected Work experience:

Nov. 2021 – Current: GitiLink Group Inc., Mountain View, CA
o Position: CTO (Machine learning engineer, Computer vision engineer, data scientist)
o Selected projects: Prototyped, implemented, and advised on machine learning and data science projects, along
with work on social media platforms:
ü Virtual reality application using Unreal-Engine
ü Developed chat bot and virtual assistant (Generative transformers)
ü Developed object detection for autonomous driving using Deep CNN
ü drowsiness detection (Deep CNN)
ü Heart (Cardiovascular) disease prediction (Random forest and logistic regression)
Dec. 2019 – Oct.2021: Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FL
o Position: Postdoctoral Associate (Machine learning engineer, Computer vision engineer, data scientist)
o Selected projects:
ü Collaborated on various research projects involving machine learning and computer vision as well as collaborated on
writing image segmentation proposal
ü Worked on Brain MRI segmentation (white matter and grey matter) – multiclass classification
ü Developed tumor detection on MRIs using Deep CNN classifier
ü Alzheimer’s disease detection (Deep CNN)
Aug. 2015 – Dec. 2019: Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FL
o Position: Graduate Assistant / Graduate Research Fellow (Machine learning engineer, Computer vision engineer,
data scientist)
o Selected projects:
ü Machine Learning and Image Processing for Noise Removal and Robust Edge Detection in the Presence of Mixed
Noise / Ph.D. Dissertation / It has 5 phases: 1) Combination of linear and non-linear filters 2) Combination of wavelet
transform based filters and linear filters 3) Create deep CNN 4) Edge detection and tracking with and without presence
of random noise on natural and medical images 5) Research on different image denoising filters and categorize them
based on their methods - (random noise including Impulse, Gaussian, Speckle, and a combination of them on natural
and medical images)
ü Research under Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF), Ware Foundation, and National Science Foundation
(NSF) support: NSF grants CNS-1532061, CNS-1551221, CNS-1042341, CNS-1429345, CNS 1338922,
CNS-0959985, CNS-1920182, CNS 2018611, HRD- 0833093, HRD-1834620, IIP 1338922, and NIA/NIH
1P30AG066506-01 with the 1Florida ADRC.
ü Research on machine learning applications: Image Denoising, Pattern Recognition (Face Recognition), Classification,
Location and Classification, Object Detection, Segmentation, Anomaly Detection, Recommending Systems, Natural
Language Processing (Language Translation, Image Captioning, Text Classification, Language Modeling, and Speech
Recognition)
ü Worked on spike detection of scalp EEG using Moving Average and PCA
ü Research on algorithms and fundamentals of image and video processing, computer vision, color science, imaging
(medical, hyperspectral), and optical remote sensing in agriculture
Sep. 2011 – Aug. 2015: MAD Communication and Technology Co. Ltd., Tehran, Iran
o Position: Founder, CEO, Vice Chairman of Board of the Directors, Technical Engineer
o Selected projects:
ü Conducted AI courses
ü Research on vision-based Human-Computer Interaction (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality)
ü Researched on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)

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 ü Conducted marketing research using supervised learning methods
Sep. 2012 – Sep. 2015: Azad University of Shahr-e-Rey, Tehran, Iran
o Position: Lecturer and supervision of undergraduate projects
o Courses taught: Machine learning, Digital signal processing

Skills:
• Programming languages: Python, JavaScript, MATLAB, C ++, R
• Framework and libraries: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, spaCy, and OpenCV (cv2), PyCaret (AutoML),
Python Ray (Distributed computing), Vizard (Virtual reality), MatConvNet
• Markup languages: HTML, CSS
• UI frameworks: React Native, React
• Cloud services: AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
• Data Management tools (Analysis & Visualization, Metadata, , Data base, Data pipeline (ETL), Data Lake, Data
Warehouse): Tableau, Microsoft Azure, , MongoDB, AWS Glue, Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift
• Computer graphic: Rendering Techniques, Unreal Engine
• MLOps:, Docker, Kubernetes
• Parallel Computing: Multi-node GPU training, CUDA
• Navigation: SLAM (Pose graph optimization)
• Other: healthcare (AI)
• Various supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods and algorithms : Linear regression, logistic
regression, Support vector machine (SVM), Artificial Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and different
CNN architectures (AlexNet, VGG, U-Net, GoogleLeNet, ResNet, MobileNet, DarkNet and more), Deep Learning,
Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) and LSTM and Transformers (BERT, GPT) and Large Language Model (LLM),
Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), Gradient Boosting, Random Forest, Decision Tree, K-nearest Neighbor, Naive
Bayes, K-Means Clustering, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Independent Component Analysis (ICA), Recommender
systems, Anomaly detection, Reinforcement learning, fine-tuning, Convex optimization, and more.

Selected Publications:
• Selected Books
o Introduction to Network Engineering, Published by Taymaz, ISBN: 978-600-6776-14-9, 2012 (in Persian)
o Introduction to C ++ Programming Language, Published by Taymaz, ISBN: 978-600-6776-13-2, 2012 (in
Persian)
• Selected Papers
o Journals
o Mehdi Mafi, Hoda Rajaei, Mercedes Cabrerizo, Malek Adjouadi, “A Robust Edge Detection Approach in the
Presence of High Impulse Intensity through Switching Adaptive Median and Fixed Weighted Mean Filtering,”
IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, vol. 27, issue. 11, Nov. 2018, pp. 5475-5490.
o Vahid Samavatian, Armin Masoumian, Mehdi Mafi, Mostafa Lakzaei, Davood Ghaderi, “Influence of
Directional Random Vibration on the Fatigue Life of Solder Joints in a Power Module,” IEEE Transactions on
Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, vol. 9, issue 2, Feb. 2019, pp. 262-268.
o Mehdi Mafi, Solale Tabarestani, Mercedes Cabrerizo, Armando Barreto, Malek Adjouadi, “Denoising of
Ultrasound Images Affected by Combined Speckle and Gaussian Noise,” IET Image Processing Journal, vol.
12, issue. 12, Dec. 2018, pp. 2346-2351.
o Mehdi Mafi, Harold Martin, Jean Andrian, Armando Barreto, Mercedes Cabrerizo, Malek Adjouadi, “A
Comprehensive Survey on Impulse and Gaussian Denoising Filters for Digital Images,” Signal Processing, vol.
157, Apr. 2019, pp. 236-260.
o Mehdi Mafi, Walter Izquierdo, Harold Martin, Mercedes Cabrerizo, Malek Adjouadi, “Deep Convolutional
Neural Network for Mixed Random Impulse and Gaussian Noise Reduction in Digital Images,” has been
provisionally accepted in IET Image Processing Journal.
o Mehdi Mafi, Walter Izquierdo, Mercedes Cabrerizo, Armando Barreto, Jean Andrian, Naphtali David Rishe and
Malek Adjouadi “A survey on Mixed Impulse and Gaussian denoising filters,” has been accepted with minor
revision in IET Image Processing Journal.
o Conferences
o Mehdi Mafi, Walter Izquierdo, Malek Adjouadi, “High Impulse Noise Intensity Removal in Natural Images
Using Convolutional Neural Network,” IEEE Computing and Communication Workshop and Conferences
(CCWC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jan. 2020.
o Mehdi Mafi, Harold Martin, Malek Adjouadi, “High Impulse Noise Intensity Removal in MRI Images”, IEEE
Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium (SPMB17),” Philadelphia, PA, USA, Dec. 2017.
o Mehdi Mafi, “Integration of Mesh WLAN and WiMAX Networks Applied in Telemedicine services to Transfer
Fixed and Mobile User`s Data,” Second Conference on Telemedicine, Tehran, Iran, Jun. 2014.

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 Volunteer experience:
• Reviewer
o IEEE Transaction on Image processing
o IEEE Transaction on neural Networks and Learning systems
o Elsevier journals
o IET Image processing
o IET Computer vision
o Springer International Journal of Computer Vision
o International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Volunteer experience:
• IEEE

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