Sepehr Abbasi Zadeh's Home Page - Department of Computer Science

I am a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science department of the University of Toronto. I have the pleasure of being co-supervised by Allan Borodin and Aleksandar Nikolov in the theory group. Before moving to Toronto, I obtained my BSc. major in Computer Engineering and minor in Mathematics at Sharif University of Technology. Please see my CV for more information.

Research interests

Combinatorial Optimization
Randomized Algorithms
Submodularity and its Applications in Machine Learning

Publication

Sepehr Abbasi Zadeh, Allan Borodin, Aleksandar Nikolov. Sublinear-Time Bipartite Matching Estimation via the RANKING Algorithm. In submission.
Sepehr Abbasi Zadeh, Nikhil Bansal, Guru Guruganesh, Aleksandar Nikolov, Roy Schwartz, Mohit Singh. Sticky Brownian Rounding and its Applications to Constraint Satisfaction Problems. SODA 2020. (pdf | codes)
Sepehr Abbasi Zadeh*, Mehrdad Ghadiri*, Vahab Mirrokni, Morteza Zadimoghaddam. Scalable Feature Selection via Distributed Diversity Maximization. AAAI 2017. (pdf | codes)
Sepehr Abbasi Zadeh, Mehrdad Ghadiri. Max-Sum Diversification, Monotone Submodular Functions and Semi-metric Spaces. arXiv 2015. (pdf | arXiv version)

Selected Projects

Bio-Plausible Reinforcement Learning Systems Learn to Play Atari From Human. Computational Neuroscience's course project under the supervision of prof. Richard Zemel. (pdf)

Experience

Research Experience

Research Assistant, Theory Group @ Uinversity of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Research Assistant, Cafebazaar, Tehran, Iran.
Undergraduate Researcher, Sharif Algorithm Lab, Tehran, Iran.
Research Assistant, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore.

Teaching Experience

University of Toronto

Teaching Assistant, Algorithm Design, Analysis and Complexity. Fall 2017.
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Algorithms. Winter 2017.
Teaching Assistant, Data Structures and Analysis. Winter 2017, Summer 2017.
Teaching Assistant, Mathematical Expression and Reasoning for CS. Fall 2016.

Sharif University of Technology

Teaching Assistant, Data Structures and Algorithms (CE). Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014.
Teaching Assistant, Design and Analysis of Algorithms (CE). Spring 2015.
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Cryptography (CS). Fall 2014, Spring 2014.
Teaching Assistant, Probability and its Applications (CS). Spring 2014.
Teaching Assistant, Fundamentals of Programming (CS). Fall 2012.

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