Education:

September 2003-April 2010:

Ph.D. in Computer Science

Cheriton School of Computer Science

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Supervisor: Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz

Algorithms and Complexity Group

Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies award for a PhD student at the University of Waterloo

Awarded during the 100th UW convocation to three students at the Doctoral level

September 1999-September 2003:

B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

Department of Computer Engineering

Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Supervisor: Mohammad Ghodsi

First rank (highest honors) among graduates of Computer Engineering department at the Sharif University of Technology, 2003