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Mohsen Kaboli

  • PhD Candidate and Research Assistant

 Institute for Cognitive Science – Technical University of Munich – Germany-  2013 - Present Supervisor :  Prof. Gordon Cheng Co- Supervisor : Prof. Yasuo Kuniyoshi  

  •  Research Scholar/ Internship

  EPFL / Idiap Lab ,  Idiap Institute of Technology – Switzerland   March  2011 – June 2013 

  • Royal Institute of Technology (KTH University) – Stockholm - Sweden 

M.S. Wireless Systems and Signal Processing (Statistical Signal Processing, Computer Vision, and Machine Learning) - 2011

  •             Master Thesis:  Leveraging Over Prior Knowledge for On-line Learning of Visual Categories     across Robots

Supervisor and Examiner:   Prof. Danica Kragic 

  •  B.S. Electrical, Electronics, and Control Systems Engineering   Tehran-Iran -  2005

 Final project:  Web Based Control of the Robot (Design and Built) Supervisor and Examiner:   Prof. Bijan Zakeri Examiner:                           Prof. Mehdi Amirani  

  •             Diploma in Mathematics and Physics

EHRAN- IRAN - 1998             Honors: 

  •    Marie Curie  fellowship  for three years - 2013 – 2016, Contest Project

       (Collaborative Network for Training in Electronic Skin Technology)              http://www.contest-itn.eu/ 

  •  Research / Internship Scholarship    Idiap Research Institute / EPFL  – Switzerland -

 March 2011- June 2013 (Swiss National Foundation )     http://p3.snf.ch/person-601377-Kaboli-Mohsen 

  • Best National Projects for Novel Creativity , Designing and Building of Plan Position Indicator for Radar System – Tehran - IRAN –  2006, Supervisor: Dr. Farhad Vakilian

 

  • Best Industrial Project for designing of  Pick and Place Robot  for SAYPA-Citroen Company IRAN 2005  Supervisor: Dr. Farhad Vakilian

 

  • Best Bachelor Project for Web Based Robot Control –   Supervisor  Prof. Bijan Zakeri and Prof. Mehdi Amirani

 

  • Provincial Nominee for both National  Mathematics and Physics Olympiad Competition -1998

 

  • Ranked 1st in Mathematics and Physics group, TEHRAN - IRAN -1998

      Invited Talk and Presentation: Ø Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - Institute for Anthropometric (IFA) - Vision and Fusion   Laboratory (IES) – Organizer Dr. Alexy Pak - Germany – 2013 

  • Institute of Educational Research and Educational Information (DIPF ) – Germany - 2012

 Ø RWTH Aachen University Department of Medical Informatics and Image ProcessingCo-organized with the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society – Germany - 2012  

  

  • Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies –Virtual Reality Group – Germany - 2012

     Teaching Experience                             Lecturer at Azad university (branch of Varamin’s Sama Semester) –Tehran-Iran – 2006      C/C++, Assembly, Microprocessor, Micro controller, Digital Electronics       SKILLS         Thorough knowledge of: 

  • Machine Learning and Transfer Learning
  • Supervised and Semi Supervised Learning and Clustering
  • Image, video, Speech, and Statistical Signal Processing
  • Linear Optimization, Probability and Random Process
  • Computer vision, Object Recognition, Scene Recognition, and Image Segmentation
  • Digital Communication - Radio Communication
  • Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieve, and Data Mining

     Computer Languages         Programming knowledge of: 

  • C / C++
  • Python
  • Java
  • Matlab  and Simulink
  • CUDA
  • Bash Programming  
  • VHDL  and Verilog

    Scientific software packages:  

  • Robot Operating System (ROS)
  • Lib SVM/SVM light Machine Learning Toolkits
  • Matlab (Signal Processing, Image Processing, and Neural Network Tool box)
  • Theano,  NumPy , SciPy library of  Python   
  • Lab View
  • Open CV
  • Player/Stage
  • Distributed Version Control System (Git)

      Operating Systems: Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows         Applications: LATEX, Open Office.org, Microsoft Office, and other common productivity                            packages for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux platforms    Technical Skills: 

  • Thorough knowledge of:

          Kalman Filtering, Particle Filtering, Wiener Filtering, Adaptive and Optimal Filtering,                                Numerical Optimization, Linear Estimation, and Grasping, Cue Integration and Sensor                                         Fusion  

  • Thorough knowledge of:

On-line and Incremental Learning, Batch Learning, Pattern recognition, Deep Learning, Sparse Kernel Machines, Multiple Kernel Learning 

  • Thorough knowledge of:

Image processing and feature descriptor (SIFT, PHOW, PHOG, CRHF, CNN, Object Bank), HMM, Bayesian Networks, Expectation Maximization, and Viterby Algorithm 

  • Thorough knowledge of :

Source and Channel Coding ( LDPC  Coding, Convolutional Coding, Turbo Coding, Serial Concatenation and RA Coding), Information Theory, and Matrix Aljebra  Projects: 

  •  New Algorithm Via Bayesian Non-Parametric

            Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing- Germany - October 2012 -Present 

  • On-line Transfer Learning  for Indoor Scene Recognition with application in Robots

           December 2011- August 2012- Idiap Research Institute – Switzerland 

  •  Indoor Scene Classification using a multi - resolution bag of  feature model Discriminative     

 Approach September -December 2011 Idiap Research Institute –Switzerland 

  • Visual Place Categorization Using Deep Convolutional Networks

            April - September 2011 Idiap Research Institute –Switzerland 

  • Some Projects in Image Enhancement, Object Recognition, Image and Video Compression   SIP Lab (Sound and Image Processing) KTH University – Winter 2010 - Sweden

 

  • Estimation and prediction of the position of the aircraft from noisy observation from Radar System (Tracking Problem) by Kalman Filtering (Matlab) in  Signal Processing and Communication Theory  Lab - KTH University – Autumn 2010 - Sweden

 

  • Prediction and Estimation of the fly trajectory on gramophone when fly has vertical or horizontal movement and also when it has Radial movement by Kalman and Particle Filtering (Matlab ) in Signal processing  and Communication Theory  Lab - KTH University Autumn 2010 - Sweden

   

  • Voice Transmission System Project

     In Signal Processing and Communication Theory Lab - KTH University          Spring 2009 under Supervision of Dr. per Zetterberg - Sweden        

  • I was doing programming of DSP board for voice acquisition by C++, sampling Information and  Speech signal, Speech coding, channel coding of   emulator and also Programming the second DSPBoard for signal decoding, demodulation and voice reconstruction by TMS320C6713 DSP Texas   Instrument

                   http://www.s3.kth.se/signal/project_course/2009/green/index.html                

  • Transcribing  (as accurate as possible) of the message in the noisy  recording by Adaptive       

      Filtering, Estimates (as accurately as possible) of a trajectory of a human who is walking               Around a city with mobile Phone by Kalman Filtering in Signal Processing and      Communication Theory Lab - KTH University – Winter 2009 - Sweden  

  •  Projects in GMM Based Speaker Identification, Compression ,Quantization and Speech

        Production and Models SIP Lab (Sound and Image Processing) KTH University – Autumn          2009 - Sweden 

  • Implementing of the Blocked based Signal Processing by Matlab

       Signal Processing Dep, KTH University – Winter 2009 - Sweden 

  • Designing and Implementing Filter Bank for Sound Compression

        by Matlab- Signal Processing Dep. KTH University – Winter 2009               Work Experienced 

  • Research Assistant at Institute for Cognitive System- Technical university of München

                  April 2013 - Present  

  • Independent Researcher at  Heidelberg  Collaboratory for Image Processing – Germany

           October 2012 –Present  

  • Research Assistant ,   Idiap Research Institute / EPFL University - Switzerland 

      Research on Online Transfer Learning with application in Robots for Indoor Scene Recognition           March 2011- August 2012  

  • Project Manager, Electronics and Telecommunication expert In Ray Djulfa Company 2007     

           DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line access), Optical Access Network, Synchronous Digital              Hierarchy 

  •  R&D Department in Iran Khodro Co. - Iran - 2007

             Hardware (Digital and Analog) Designer and Programmer Supervisor: Dr. Farhad Vakilian  Projects Involved: -                     Design of  Welding Robot-                     MCA (Multi Channel Analyzer)                         -                     Micro-controller Programming                                        -                     Pre-Amp and Amplifier (Design-Built)-                     PLC Programming-                     Switching Power Supply-                     ADC and DAC  Unit 

  • Leacturer at Azad university (branch of Varamin’s Sama Semester) –Tehran-Iran  - 2006

            Microprocessor, Micro controller, Digital Electronics, Assembly, C/C++, VB.6 in Computer                   Department 

  •  VHDL Programmer, Hardware designer and PLC programmer in HESCO Co.  2004-2006

   Projects Involved: 1- PPI (Plan position Indicator for Radar Systems) Iranian Air Force-                     ACP Counter                                                                  -                     Video Mixer                                                                 -                     Sync to Digital and Digital to Sync          -                     Digital Designing using VHDL , Foundation Xilinx (FPGA ,CPLD , and Cool runner)-                     Azimuth Unit  -                     High Precision Video Amp-                     Power Amp  2- Design and produce of Portable 16 channels Data Acquisition Systems-                     Serial ,Parallel , IRDA Support     -                     LCD Driver                                   -                     Switching Power supply-                     Battery Charger Circuit -                     Micro controller Programming          3- Design and produce of DPLC (Digital Power Line Carrier) Common between ABB Co, HESCO, and                NIR( Niroo Research Institute) -                     Voice Coder and Decoder     -                     Main board( DSP Processor )-                     ADC, DAC Driver and Circuits-                     Slic and Trunk Unit     -                     Pre-Amp and Amplifier       Language  

  • Farsi - Native
  • English– Fluent
  • French –  Intermediate
  • Swedish - Intermediate
  • German- Basic

       General Interests 

  • Computer Science and Robotics
  • Electronics and Signal Processing
  • Machine Learning, Data Mining, and NLP
  • Teaching
  • Climbing
  • Winter Sport

   Membership: 

  • 2nd European Network for Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and       

            Robotics

  • Member of IEEE
  • Member of National Standard Compilation Committee -Iran
Role: 
Early Stage Researchers