About Me:

I am a PhD student at Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University. As a member of MALNIS research group, I am working under supervision of Dr. Evangelos Milios and Dr. Dirk Arnold. In my PhD research study, I am working on clustering large-scale textual datasets using Evolutionary algorithms.

Research:

• Text Mining
• Evolutionary Computing
• Artificial Neural Networks
• Image Processing and Machine Vision
• Vision-based Human-computer Interaction

Publications:

• Naser Nourashrafoddin, Ali R. Vahdat and M.M. Ebadzadeh, Automatic Design of Modular Neural Networks Using Genetic programming, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'07), Porto, Portugal, Sep 9-13, 2007. Also in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol. 4668, pp. 788-798.
• Ali R. Vahdat, Naser Nourashrafoddin and Saeed Shiry Ghidary, Mobile Robot Global Localization using Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm Optimization, Proceedings of IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Singapore, Sep 25-28, 2007.
• Ali R. Vahdat and Naser Nourashrafoddin, Design of Artificial Neural Networks with Genetic Programming, Proceedings of Joint Conference on Intelligent Systems and Fuzzy Systems (ISFS), Mashhad, Iran, Aug 29-31, 2007.
• Naser Nourashrafoddin and Ali R. Vahdat, Global Localization of Mobile Robots using Evolutionary Algorithms, Proceedings of Joint Conference on Intelligent Systems and Fuzzy Systems (ISFS), Mashhad, Iran, Aug 29-31, 2007.
• Naser Nourashrafoddin, Reza Safabakhsh, Real-time hand gesture recognition in human-computer interaction, 5th Iranian Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (MVIP08), Tabriz, Iran, November 4-6, 2008.

Contact:

Dalhousie University
Faculty of Computer Science
6050 University Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 1W5 Canada

Email: nourashr [at] cs [dot] dal [dot] ca, hamid [dot] nourashraf [at] gmail [dot] com

Created: Jan 2011, Last Update: Jan 2011