Mehran Taghipour Gorjikolaie

PhD in Electronic Engineering (Application of AI)

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Summary
An active and highly motivated researcher with more than 10 years of experience in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
techniques in various aspects of engineering. Has more than 5 years of teaching experience as an assistant professor (lecturer) in the
fields of artificial intelligence, machine vision and electronics. Supervised and advised more than 15 MSc and PhD students and
published more than 30 papers with around 290 citations. As mentioned, most of the publications are about application of AI, CV and
ML techniques in different fields of engineering in collaboration with different universities around the world (UK, Netherland, Italy,
Canada and Iran). Over the past four years, major researches have focused on the application of artificial intelligence, CV and ML in
healthcare (humans and animals). In addition, Familiar with AI and Machine Learning (ML) tools such as Torch, Tensor flow, Keras,
NumPy, Scikit-Learn, OpenCV, Open3d and Matplotlib Libraries in python and also Matlab software. Member of US Machine
Intelligence Research Lab (MIRL), Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing (ISMVIP), and affiliated member of
People-AI centre at the University of Surrey, UK.

Experience
September 2021 Research Fellow for Computer Vision & AI for Veterinary science,
to CVSSP, University of Surrey, Guilford, UK.
Current • Developed 3D photography system by using Azure Kinect cameras.
• Used computer vision and AI method to examine the link between external facial/head appearance and
abnormal brain morphology in pedigree dogs.

February 2022 Director of R&D department, (Voluntary remote collaboration)

To Camp in Labs Foundation (a Non-profit company), Canada.
current • Led researches about application of AI for human life in the foundation.
• Led AI-based devices development for human life.
• Led new start-ups in AI to have better marketing.

March 2020 Director of International Scientific Collaboration Office,

to University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.
August 2021 • Interacted with academic staff, students and HR to help them for international collaborate.
• Interacted with other universities and international societies for active collaboration.
• Prepared the infrastructure for holding international conferences, meetings and conferences.

September 2016 Lecturer (Assistant Professor),

to University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.
August 2021 • Taught Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Computer Vision (CV) related
courses.
• Taught computer and electronics related courses.
• Researched in the field of application of AI, CV and ML techniques.
• Supervised/ advised MSc and PhD students.

September 2011 Director of R&D department,

to Achilan Door Company, Iran.
August 2016 • Improved performance of Automatic doors.
• Used AI techniques to develop new sensors, new systems and new structures.
• Used AI techniques to increase customer purchases.
Education
January 2015 PhD visiting student,
to PRA lab, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
July 2015 Title: Application of AI techniques in biometrics.
Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Roli

January 2012 PhD in Electronic Engineering (Application of AI in biometrics),

to University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.
September 2016 Thesis title: Presenting a Multimodal Biometric System Using Definition of Optimum Descriptors
Supervisor: Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Razavi

September 2009 MSc in Electronic Engineering (Application of AI in power electronics),

to University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.
September 2011 Thesis title: Intelligent prediction of the amount of the inter-turn fault in PMSM
Supervisor: Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Razavi

September 2004 BSc in Electronic Engineering,

to Babol Noshirvani University of Technology (University of Mazandaran), Babol, Iran.
January 2008 Thesis title: Microprocessor based sound processing
Supervisor: Dr. Shaban Ali Gol

Honors, Awards & Memberships

❖ Winner of “Best Lecturer of the Year” Award in Iran's National Elites Foundation, South-Khorasan branch, Iran in 2016-2017.
❖ Graduated with honor and as ranked 1st and 2nd student during studying for M.Sc. and Ph.D., respectively.
❖ Won the scholarship for studying in Italy as visiting student from University of Birjand.
❖ Won the grant for doing project in the field of Pattern Recognition in the University of Cagliari.
❖ Member of “National Elite Foundation” of Iran
❖ Affiliate member of People-AI center, University of Surrey, UK.
❖ Member of Machine Intelligence Research Lab (MIRL), US.
❖ Member of Iranian Society of Machine Vision and Image Processing (ISMVIP), Iran.
❖ Member of Young Researchers Club, Iran.
❖ Publication chair of 2013 Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis Conference PRIA 2013 (IEEE Conference),
(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6528462).
❖ Executive chair of Conference Healthcare computing Systems and Technology (CHEST 2019),
(http://chest.birjand.ac.ir/organizing-committee/).

Research Experiences and projects

❖ Project: Machine Learning (ML) based inventory handling (November 2020 – July 2021)
Tasks: AI and ML based methods are widely used for solving industrial challenges. Inventory handling is one of the most important
and time consuming action in industry. Using ML based device for inventory handling can increase performance of company.
Employer: Iran's National Elites Foundation, Tehran, Iran.
Principal end-user and funder: Golrang Industrial Group, Golrang Company, Iran.

❖ Project: Deep Hip Shape Finder (February 2020 - now)

Tasks: Finding shape of hip can help physicians to understand bone abnormalities in hip of patient. Deep learning based method
could be useful solution for finding shape of hip by using biomarkers.
Employer: University of Utrecht, Netherland.
Principal end-user and funder: University of Utrecht, Netherland.

❖ Project: Hand based Authentication system (2018)

Tasks: Hand includes many unique information of human identity. Different biometrics such as fingerprint, palm-print, knuckles,
and hybrid features of them could be so useful for biometric based authentication systems.
Principal end-user and funder: Sapienza University (Italy) and University of Birjand (Iran).

❖ Project: Development and testing of algorithms and / or tools for the analysis and classification of images (2015)
Tasks: images were first split into blocks, and each block was then analyzed separately. Image and data compression algorithms
like Jpeg, Jpeg2000, CharLS and LZ0, ZRLE were also used to facilitate the subsequent classification of each block, depending
on its content.
Employer: University of Cagliari, Italy.
Principal end-user and funder: University of Cagliari, Italy.
Selected Academic Publications
Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie has been published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in national and international journals,
conferences, in English, and Persian languages. Some of his selected publications are as follows:

1) Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie, J. Sadri, and S. M. Razavi, “Deep Adaptive Feature Enrichment”, Expert Systems with
Applications, Vol. 162, 30 December 2020. (Impact Factor: 5.452)

2) R. Hedayati, M. Khedmati, and Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie, “Deep Feature Extraction Method based on Ensemble of
Convolutional Auto Encoders: Application to Alzheimer’s disease Diagnosis” Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, Vol.
66, April 2021. (Impact Factor: 3.137)

3) M. Izadpanahkakhk, S. M. Razavi, Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie, S. H. Zahiri and A. Uncini, “Deep Region of Interest and
Feature Extraction Models for Palmprint Verification Using Convolutional Neural Networks Transfer Learning” Applied Science,
Vol. 8, No. 7, July 2018, 1-20. (Impact Factor: 1.689)

4) MehranTaghipour-Gorjikolaie, S. M. Razavi and N. Mehrshad, “Multimodal biometric identification system based on finger-
veins using hybrid rank–decision-level fusion technique” IEEJ Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vol. 12,
No. 5, 2017, 728-735. (Impact Factor: 0.517)

5) M. Izadpanahkakhk, S. M. Razavi, Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie, S. H. Zahiri and A. Uncini, “Joint feature fusion and
optimization via deep discriminative model for mobile palmprint verification” Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 28, No. 4,
2019, 1-12. (Impact Factor: 0.884)

6) M. Izadpanahkakhk, S. M. Razavi, Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie, S. H. Zahiri and A. Uncini, “Novel mobile palmprint
databases for biometric authentication” International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, Vol. 10, No. 5, 2019, 465-474.

7) Mohammad Yazdani-Asrami, Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie, Wenjuan Song, Min Zhang, and Weijia Yuan, “Prediction of
Nonsinusoidal AC Loss of Superconducting Tapes using Artificial Intelligence-based Models” , IEEE Access, Vol. 8, 16 November
2020. (Impact Factor: 3.745)

8) Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie, and N. Valipour-Motlagh, “Predicting wettability behavior of fluorosilica coated metal surface
using optimum neural network” Surface Science, Vol. 668, February 2018, 47-53. (Impact Factor: 2.062)

9) N. Valipour-Motlagh and MehranTaghipour-Gorjikolaie, “Fuzzy based models for estimating static contact angle and sliding
angle of liquid drops” Progress in Organic Coatings, Vol. 119, June 2018, 183-193. (Impact Factor: 2.89)

10) N. Valipour-Motlagh and MehranTaghipour-Gorjikolaie, “Comparison of heuristic methods for developing optimized neural
network based models to predict amphiphobic behavior of fluorosilica coated surfaces” Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol.
349, 2018, 289-295. (Impact Factor: 2.538)

11) M. Yazdani-Asrami, Mehran Taghipour-Gorjikolaie, S. M. Razavi, S. A. Gholamian, “A novel intelligent protection system for
power transformers considering possible electrical faults, inrush current, CT saturation and over-excitation” Electrical Power and
Energy Systems, Vol. 64, 2015, 1129–1140. (Impact Factor: 3.289)

12) F. Jafarian, M. Taghipour, H. Amirabadi, “Application of Artificial Neural Network and Optimization Algorithms for Optimizing
Surface Roughness, Tool Life and Cutting Forces in Turning Operation” Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
(Springer), Vol. 27, No. 5, 2013, 1469-1477. (Impact Factor: 1.128)

13) M. Taghipour, A. R. Moradi, M. Yazdani-Asrami, “Identification of Magnetizing Inrush Current in Power Transformers using
GSA Trained ANN for Educational Purposes” IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2010), 23-27, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
2010.

14) M. A. Shamsi-Nejad, M. Taghipour, S. M. Razavi and M. Farshad, “Inter-Turn Stator Winding Fault Diagnosis and Determination
of Fault Percent in PMSM” IEEE Applied Power Electronics Colloquium (IAPEC 2011), 128-131, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
2011.