Behnam Attaran Rezaei

URL:                http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~behnam
Email:               behnam@ee.ucla.edu
Address:           3770 Keystone Ave. #214., 
                         Los Angeles, CA 90034
Phone: (310) 702-5266

Education:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES        Los Angeles, CA
2003-3007      Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering     (Current GPA: 3.97/4.0)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES        Los Angeles, CA
2001-2003      M.S. in Electrical Engineering           (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY              Tehran, Iran 
     1996-2001          B.S. in Electrical Engineering 

Awards and Honors: 

UCLA Fellowship (2002)

Bronze medal in the 5^th Iranian Computer Olympiad (1995)

Ranked 39^th among 300,000 participants in nationwide university entrance exam for B.S. degree (1996)

Work and Research Experience: 

August 2005 – Present

Founder/Chief Technical Officer, Ilial Inc.; a Los Angeles based Internet startup company. Developing technologies to improve online advertising industry by extracting knowledge of the web and matching user intention to any categorized database.

Spring 2005 – Present

Research Assistant: Focus on complex networks and designing large scale networks for which traditional optimization methods are not computationally practical. These applications include modeling, structure design, formation, routing and performance. Specific applications are sensor networks, biological networks, World Wide Web and social networks. UCLA Complex Networks Lab.

Spring 2004 – 2005

Research Assistant: Design of the first unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) network (Brunet) using distributed adaptive protocols. UCLA Complex Networks Lab.

Fall 2002 – Spring 2003

Research Assistant: Online calibration of time-stretched ADC arrays; finding jitter and gain and offset mismatch in time stretched ADC arrays. UCLA

Graduate Courses

Information theory, computer networks, randomized algorithms, biomathematics, functional analysis, adaptive filtering, stochastic modeling with applications to telecommunication systems, telecommunication switching and queuing systems, channel coding, fuzzy logic, neural networks, advanced programming, computer networks, speech processing, image processing, digital filter design, statistical mechanics

Special Skills:

• Strong programming skills in Basic, Pascal, C++, Visual C, C#, Assembly and Java.
• Experience in network simulation packages like Qualnet and NS2. Simulation of direct antenna using Qualnet and the effect of direct antenna in MAC and routing performance.
• Architect and design of large scale hybrid distributed systems.
• Complex Networks, Graph Theory and online/randomized algorithms.
• P2P client server architecture.
• Enjoy intelligent challenging tasks.

Publications:

THESIS

• Behnam A. Rezaei, “Distributed and Decentralized Complex Networks: Design, Simulation, Analysis, and Applications“, PhD Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 2007
• Behnam A. Rezaei, "Ridge extraction and thinning of fingerprint images ", Undergraduate Thesis, Sharif University of Technology, Aug. 2001.

JOURNAL PAPERS

• Behnam A. Rezaei, V. P. Roychowdhury, “Defining and identifying overlapping communities in real networks”, preprint
• B. A. Rezaei, N. Sarshar, V. P. Roychowdhury “Random Walks in a dynamic Small- World Space: Low-Latency Optimal Routing in Large-Scale Sensor Networks”, submitted to IEEE Trans. On Wireless Communications.
• N. Sarshar, B. A. Rezaei, V. P. Roychowdhury, “Low Latency Wireless Ad- Hoc Networking: Power and Bandwidth Challenges and a Hierarchical Solution”, to appear in IEEE Trans. On Wireless Communications.
• B. A. Rezaei, N. Sarshar, V. P. Roychowdhury, “Disaster Management in Power-Law Networks: Recovery from and Protection Against Intentional Attacks”, to appear in PhysA.
• J. Kong, O. Boykin, B.A. Rezaei, N. Sarshar, V.P. Roychowdhury, “Collaborative Spam Filtering Using E-Mail Networks” , IEEE Computer 39(8): 67-73 (2006)
• Riccardo Boscolo, Behnam A. Rezaei, P. Oscar Boykin, Vwani P. Roychowdhury , “Functionality Encoded In Topology? Discovering Macroscopic Regulatory Modules from Large-Scale Protein-DNA Interaction Networks”, preprint;arXiv:q-bio/0501039v2
• Amir M. Tahmasebi, Behnam A. Rezaei and Shohreh Kasaei, “An Adaptive Approach to Fore/Background Segmentation, Enhancement, and Ridge Extraction from Fingerprint Images”, Sharif Journal of Science and Technology., Oct 2006

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Scalable and Reliable Collaborative Spam Filters: Harnessing the Global Social Email Networks, Joseph S. Kong, P. Oscar Boykin, Behnam Attaran Rezaei, Nima Sarshar, Vwani P. Roychowdhury Proceedings of CEAS 2005.
• B. Rezaei, N. Sarshar, and V. Roychowdhury, "Random walks in a dy namic small-world space: robust routing in large-scale sensor networks," (3 1 ) in Proceedings of the 60^th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2004-Fall), September 2004, pp. 4640- 4644
• B. A. Rezaei, M. Jahed, “Car License Plate Recognition System” in Proc. MVIP 2001 pp. 320-325.

PATENTS (including pending)

• Behnam A. Rezaei, Alice Muntz, “ Method and Apparatus for distributed community finding”, U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 11/125,329, Filed May 10th 2005
• Behnam A. Rezaei, Alice Muntz, “Method and Apparatus for Context-based knowledge Search, Tagging, Collaboration, Management, and Advertisement”, U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 60/760,244, Provisional filed January 18th 2006
• Behnam A. Rezaei, Alice Muntz, “Method And Apparatus for Creating, Navigating, and Searching Informational Web Neighborhoods”, U.S. Patent Application No. 11/625,729, Provisional filed January 19th 2006
• Behnam A. Rezaei, Alice Muntz, “ Methods and Apparatus for Visualizing, Managing, Monetizing, and Personalizing Knowledge Search Results on a user interface”, U.S. Patent Application No. 11/625,279, Provisional filed February 28th 2006
• Behnam A. Rezaei, “ Methods and Apparatus for Matching Relevant Content to User Intention” , US provisional patent application., October 26th 2006