School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University

Email: azimi at eecs.oregonstate.edu
Phone: 541-602-8394
Web: http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~azimi/

Machine Learning and Intelligent System Lab
Oregon State University
1148 Kelley Engineering Center
Corvallis, OR 97331-550

I am a fifth year Ph.D candidate working in Bayesian optimization problems under the supervision of Dr. Xiaoli Fern. I am also working closely with Dr. Alan Fern in this project. Currently, I am looking for an industrial/postdoc position.

In media: Here is an stroy about my research at OSU.

  News:

• May 7th: I have uploaded the Gaussian Process regression implementation in Matlab. Please see my Research page for the dawnload link.


• May 4th: Our submitted paper to KDD 2012 just got accpeted.


• April 30th: Both submitted papers to ICML 2012 got accepted.


• April 26th: I am giving a talk in AI seminar about Bayesian Optimization.


• April 23rd: I successfully passed my Ph.D. Prelim exam. You can find my prelim document here and my presentation slides here.

• Javad Azimi, Alan Fern, Xiaoli Fern, Glencora  Borradaile, Brent Heeringa, “Batch Active Learning via Coordinating  Matching”, in ICML 2012.

• Javad Azimi, Ali Jalali, Xiaoli Fern, “Hybrid Batch Bayesian Optimization”, in ICML 2012. [.pdf]

• Javad Azimi, Bruce Zhang, Yang  Zhou, Vidhya Navalpakkam, Xiaoli Fern, “The Impact of Visual Appearance on User Response in Online Display Advertising”, in WWW 2012. [.pdf][longer version][poster]

• Javad Azimi, Alan Fern, Xiaoli Fern, “Budgeted Optimization with Concurrent Stochastic-Duration Experiments”, in NIPS 2011 (Spotlight). [.pdf (long version)][poster][slides]

• Complete list of publications

• Yahoo! Labs.
  4401, Great America, Santa Clara, CA, US
  Job Descriptin: I was working as a research scientist at Advertisement Science Labs. The project was about evaluating the creative visual features in performance display advertising. In general, the question was weather or not we are able to predict the click through rate of an image advertisement based on its beauty. (more information about this project)

• BIOTRONIK.
  6024, John Road, Lake Oswego, Portland, US
  Job Descriptin: I was working as a research scientist at Test System Lab. My research was about statistical unsupervised anomaly detection in large scale data set. In general, we had the results of almost 2000 different tests in more than 30000 devices. Unfortunately, a few devices passed all tests successfully while they were not perfectly functional. The goal was finding those devices by analyzing their test results. (more information about this project)

• Farjen Pouyesh Co.
  Vali Asr Street, Tehran, Iran
  Job Descriptin: I was a software engineer working on developing data base systems using Visual C++ and Visual Basic.

Summer Intern
June 2011-Septemeber 2011

Summer Intern
June 2008-Septemeber 2008

Software Engineer
Fall 2005-Septemeber 2007

• Proficient in: C, C++, MATLAB, Visual C++ and Visual Basic


• Familiar with: Python, Java, R, Hadoop, PHP, JavaScript and Statistica

• Teaching Assistant
  • C, C++, Java, Artificial Intelligent, Theory of Computation
  
  
• Instructor
  • C++, Data Structure, Discrete Mathematic

Oregon State University

Azad University of Garmsar

• Ph.D. excellent candidate at Iran University of Science and Technology (2007)
• Ranked 1st among AI graduate students entered in 2004 in M. Sc. program (GPA 18.31/20) at Iran University of Science and Technology

• I enjoy listening traditional Iranian music, closing the eyes and trying to understand the romantic conversation among musical instruments. A few links to some of them [#1, #2, #3, #4, #5, ...] (and yes! I am a fan of youtuberepeat.com).
• Writing is one of my favorite habits to fulfill my free time since I found it as the best way to express my feeling. I have been updating the weblog masterastin.blogfa.com for the last 5 years where I mostly write literary notes including my random poems in Farsi.
• Marshal Arts was my favorite exercise for more than 10 years. I started it when I was 12 years old with Taekwondo. After a few years, I switched to Kickboxing. Kung Fu To'a was my last favorite marshal art which I have done it only for 2 years.