MARYAM RAHIMIMOVASSAGH
Christiansburg,VA
Summary
Engineer with a rich background in data analytics, text analysis, and programming, aimed at improving safety in transportation and construction with significant contributions to the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, notably enhancing pedestrian safety device designs. Available to start working late June - mid July for the next year.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
AI-enhanced Platforms Designing
PriceSenz
06.2024 - 09.2024
Boosting recruitment platform integration with AI recommendation systems using Figma and user flows
Researcher
Virginia Tech, Human Factors in Transportation Lab, VTTI
10.2022 - 02.2024
- Enhanced functionality of multi media alert system for pedestrians
- Improved and decreased percentage of time spending of participants in error space by 63%
- Interpretation and analysis of resulting data using hypothesis testing and charts using R.
Teaching Assistant
Virginia Tech, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
08.2021 - 06.2023
- Holding hybrid office hours to help approximately 235 students with their assignments
- Holding review sessions for the exams
- Design of exams, making rubrics and grading to track students progress.
Researcher
Virginia Tech, Mind Music Machine (Trim) lab
06.2020 - 01.2022
- Boosted safety and productivity of construction workers using voice agents
- Improved completion time of simulated task of assembling by 18% and number of assembling error by 16%
- Multitasking in cross-functional team work
- Leading study group of 10 students in AI and voice-based classification in Python using Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, and scikit-learn.
Research Engineer
Innovation Center in Sharif University of Technology
04.2018 - 11.2020
- Boosted text content for an interface design aiming at linking customer and local flight agencies using search engine optimization and result validation
- Participation in workshops and lectures, focus groups, and brain storming.
Research Engineer
Institute in Physics and Mathematics (IPM)
09.2016 - 06.2018
- Improved CNN accuracy by 22.87% to classify Electroencephalography (EEG) using network path length using Tensorflow, Keras, Matplotlib, NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn towards master thesis
- Transfer learning based on re-orderd heat map images of Correlation matrices
- Experienced working with EEG electrodes and data cleaning using EEG lab in Matlab
- Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience(Cam-CAN) large-scale (approx
- N = 700).
Education
Master of Engineering - Industrial and systems Engineering
Cognitive Engineering, Virginia Tech (VT)
Blacksburg, VA05.2024
Master of Science - Industrial and systems Engineering, Statistics
Sharif University of Technology (SUT)
Tehran, Iran06.2018
Bachelor of Engineering - Biosystems Engineering
University of Tehran (UT)
Tehran, Iran06.2013
Skills
- Deep Learning
- Matlab
- Scikit-learn
- Pandas
- Tensorflow
- Keras
- OpenAI
- NLTK
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Matplotlib
- Machine Learning
- Anaconda
- Linux
- Computer-Aided Design
Publications and conference
- WISE Initiative: Empowering Women in Industrial and Systems Engineering - Impacts, Strategies, and Future Plans (In progress)
- See you on the other side: a crosswalk navigation system with multi-modal alert system for distracted and visually impaired crosswalk users, Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 67(1), 1894-1899.
- Human Factors Considerations for Teaming between Construction Workers and Voice-based Intelligent Virtual Agent (VIVA), Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 65(1), 72-76, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Oct 4-7, 2021. Cited by 3.
- Real-time moisture ratio study of drying date fruit chips based on on-line image attributes using kNN and random forest regression methods, Measurement, Volume 172, 2021, 108899. Cited by 36.
Selected services and awards
- Faculty Women of Color Association (FWCA) scholarship (April 2024)
- Member and formal event chair in Women in ISE (WISE) (Sep 2021- present).
- Member and social media coordinator in Center in Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI) (Dec 2021- present).
- Award from Pajouhesh institution for ranking 6 among around 12000 participants in the national master entrance exam (June 2015)
Qualitativeskills
- User Interviews
- Focus Groups
- Design Charrette
- Questionnaires
Other technical skills
- Microsoft Suite
- Microsoft Teams
- Outlook
- Calender
Timeline
AI-enhanced Platforms Designing
PriceSenz
06.2024 - 09.2024
Researcher
Virginia Tech, Human Factors in Transportation Lab, VTTI
10.2022 - 02.2024
Teaching Assistant
Virginia Tech, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
08.2021 - 06.2023
Researcher
Virginia Tech, Mind Music Machine (Trim) lab
06.2020 - 01.2022
Research Engineer
Innovation Center in Sharif University of Technology
04.2018 - 11.2020
Research Engineer
Institute in Physics and Mathematics (IPM)
09.2016 - 06.2018
Master of Engineering - Industrial and systems Engineering
Cognitive Engineering, Virginia Tech (VT)
Master of Science - Industrial and systems Engineering, Statistics
Sharif University of Technology (SUT)
Bachelor of Engineering - Biosystems Engineering
University of Tehran (UT)