Shahab Kamali

University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue W.
Devid Cheriton School of Waterloo, Ontario
Computer Science Canada N2L 3G1
skamali@cs.uwaterloo.ca (519) 888 4567 ext 35347
http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/∼skamali



Education
 University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Ph.D. of Computer Science, Sep. 2007 -present.
Supervisor: Frank Tompa.

 Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Masters of Computer Science, Sep. 2005 - Aug. 2007.
Thesis title: Routing in mobile ad-hoc networks.
Supervisor: Jaroslav Opatrny.

  Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
B.Sc. In Computer Engineering, Sep. 2000 - Aug. 2004.



Work exprience
  Microsoft Research, Redmond.
Research Intern, May 2011 - Aug. 2011



Research Interests
 Database systems
 Specialized search
 Information retrieval
 Semi-structured data management
 Data extraction



Publications
 Shahab Kamali, Johnson Apacible, Yasaman Hosseinkashi, Answering math queries with search engines, WWW 2012.

 Shahab Kamali, Frank Wm. Tompa, Grammar Inference for Web Documents, WebDB 2011.

 Shahab Kamali, Frank Wm. Tompa, A new mathematics retrieval system, CIKM 2010: 1413-1416.

 Shahab Kamali, Frank Wm. Tompa, Improving Mathematics Retrieval, DML 2009: 37-48.

 Shahab Kamali, Jaroslav Opatrny, A hybrid ant-colony routing algorithm for mobil ead-hoc networks, COMPLEX 2009: 1337-1354.

 Shahab Kamali, Jaroslav Opatrny, A position based ant colony optimization routing algorithm for mobile ad-hoc networks, Journal of Networks 3(4): 31-41, 2007.

 Shahab Kamali, Jaroslav Opatrny, POSANT: A position based ant-colony routing algorithm for mobile ad-hoc networks, ICWMC 2007:21-29 (Best paper award).

 M. Ghodsi, O. Hassanzadeh, S. Kamali and M. Monemizadeh, A hybrid approach for refreshing web page repositories, DASFAA 2005: 588-593.



Awards And Honors
 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postgraduate Award, 2008-2010, 63,000$.
 University of Waterloo President’s Graduate Scholarship (PGS), 2008-2010, 30,000$.
 Cheriton scholarship award, 2007, 2008, 20,000$.
 Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2007).
 Concordia tuition remission award, 2005, 2006, 15,000$.
 First place in Sharif University graduate school entrance exam in Information Technology, Iran, Summer 2004.
 2nd place in RoboCup Real Robots Rescue League, together with Sharif CEDRA team, Padova, Italy, Summer   2003.



Skills
 Programming languages and scripts: C, C++, VC++, Java, Scheme, C#, JSP, JavaScript, HTML.
 Database management systems: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server.
 Operating systems: Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora), Microsoft Windows.
 Typesetting systems: LaTeX.
 Text editors: Vim, gedit, Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.



Professional Affiliations And Memberships
 Reviewer: Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier Computer Networks.
 Referee: ICWMC 2008, 2009, IEEE GLOBECOM 2010.
 Steering committee member: Asian regional ACM contest (Tehran site), 2003.
 Member: ACM, IEEE, American Mathematical Society.