MM. Kamani

  • College of Information Sciences & Technology

  • Pennsylvania State University

I am a Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence scientist. Currently, I am a Graduate Fellow (proudly awarded Academic Computing Fellowship by the Penn State university) in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at Pennsylvania State University. I worked as a research intern at Twitter Cortex and Honeywell Sentience, and Tadbir Pardaz Ltd. as the head of Business Intelligence (BI) group. I received both my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in Communication Systems from Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology.

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National Science Foundation newsletter covers our project's news, severe weather detection and prediction leverging big data, June 21, 2017

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New Research Leverages Big Data to Predict Severe Weather, on ACM TechNews (weekly newsletter sent to 100,000+ members of the ACM) June 21, 2017

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Big Data Provides Deadly Storm Alert, coverage of our project on Innovators Magazine, June 22, 2017

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New IST Research Leverages Big Data to Predict Severe Weather, the coverage of our project on AAAS EurekAlert!, June 21, 2017

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New Research Leverages Big Data to Predict Severe Weather, the news of our project on Phys.Org, June 21, 2017.

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Researchers Employing Big Data to Predict Severe Weather Conditions, coverage of our project published on IEEE Engineering 360, by Marie Donlon, June 22, 2017

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New Research Leverages Big Data to Predict Severe Weather, the story of our project on Science News Online, June 21, 2017

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New IST Research Leverages Big Data to Predict Severe Weather, the coverage of our project on Penn State News, by Erin Cassidy Hendrick, June 21, 2017

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I am proudly awarded Academic Computing Fellowship for three years by the Graduate School at Penn State University. I recieved the award in the 2017 Student Awards Luncheon.

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I am proudly awarded Academic Computing Fellowship for three years by the Graduate School at Penn State University. I am the first awardee of this fellowship in the history of the college of IST.

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Education & Training

  • Ph.D.2015-Present

    Graduate Fellow at the College of IST

    Pennsylvania State University

  • M.Sc.2013-2015

    Master of Science in Communication Systems

    Sharif University of Technology

  • B.Sc.2008-2013

    Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

    Sharif University of Technology

Honors, Awards and Grants

  • 2019
    NeurIPS Travel Award
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    Travel award to attend and present our work on thirty-third Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
  • 2019
    Nittany AI Challenge
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    Winner of the first and second round of Nittany AI Challenge 2019 at Penn State University for the idea of iApplication. Our team has received $2000 to develop an MVP for the final round.
  • 2019
    ICML Travel Award
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    Travel award to attend and present our work on thirty-sixth International Conference on Machine Learning.
  • 2018
    Microsoft AI for Earth Grant
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    Awarded AI for Earth grant, Microsoft. My project has been awarded 10, 000 USD by AI for earth program in Microsoft to use on Azure systems.
  • 2017
    Academic Computing Fellowship
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    PennState Academic Computing Fellowship for 3 years. This is the most prestigeous grant awrded by the Penn State University. I am the first awardee of this fellowship in the history of the College of Information Sciences and Technology.
  • 2016
    NSF Travel Award
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    NSF Travel Award to attend to International IEEE Big Data Conference in Washington D.C. (Dec 2016)
  • 2013
    University Entrance Exam for Postgraduate Studies Achievement
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    Ranked 19th in the Nationwide Electrical Engineering University Entrance Exam for postgraduate studies among 40000 participants (Feb 2013)
  • 2008
    University Entrance Exam Achievement
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    Ranked 7th in the Nationwide Mathematics and Physics University Entrance Exam among 300,000 participants (Jul 2008)
  • 2008
    Exceptional Talents of Iran
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    Member of the National Organization of Exceptional Talents in Iran
  • 2008
    Exceptional Talents of Sharif University of Technology
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    Member of the organization of Exceptional Talents at Sharif University of Technology
  • 2006
    National Chemistry Olympiad
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    Accepted in the first stage of National Chemistry Olympiad Ranked 4th among 10,000 participants