Mehrbod Sharifi
30, graduating from MS in Computer Science Carnegie Mellon, Starting Beanstr.com
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Skills: | C/C++, English, German, Industrial Engineering, Java, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Perl, Python, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development |
| Groups: | Women 2.0 |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | Carnegie Mellon University, City University of New York System |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Beanstr Inc., Berkeley, CA |
| Position: | Founder and CEO |
| Time period: | July 2008 - Present |
| Description: | § Putting together a team and regular meetings to develop the initial concept
§ Participating and managing the development team to the completion of the several prototypes § Business development: Networking for partners and advisors, Business plan writing, etc. |
| Employer: | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Position: | Teaching Assistant |
| Time period: | August 2008 - October 2008 |
| Description: | Computational Intelligence:
Undergraduate CS course for integrating hardware and developing algorithms to make smarter real world objects (Instructors: Alan Black and Anatole Gershman) |
| Employer: | City University of New York |
| Position: | Graduate Research Assistant |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2007 |
| Description: | § Research on extracting lexical patterns in restaurant reviews and using them to improve
summarization, supervised by Noemie Elhadad § Research on the latent semantic analysis and its applications to word sense disambiguation, supervised by Esther Levin |
| Employer: | Columbia University |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2007 |
| Description: | § Research on the story segmentation of GALE multilingual broadcast news through extraction of novel lexical, acoustic and speaker features, supervised by Julia Hirschberg |
| Employer: | AT&T Research Lab, Florham Park, NJ |
| Position: | Research Assistant |
| Time period: | December 2004 - November 2006 |
| Description: | § Research on reducing the error of ASR and NLU modules of dialog systems by extracting useful features from dialog logs, supervised by Esther Levin and Mazin Rahim |
| Employer: | City University of New York |
| Position: | Teaching Assistant |
| Time period: | February 2004 - April 2004 |
| Description: | Java Programming |
| Employer: | Visual Graphics Systems, New York City |
| Position: | Software Developer |
| Time period: | September 2001 - August 2004 |
| Description: | § Designed and implemented the following applications:
- Sign-O-Matic™: a desktop application for printing signs and menu listings (to date, more than 800 copies are sold and registered) - SignTrax™: a web-based project-tracking and control tool that combines capabilities of spreadsheets with other web based features (such as calendars and photos) - MenuMatic™: a web-based dynamic poster creation that generates PDF on-the fly. Used by many franchised customers (e.g., Subway) and over 10,000 orders received to date. - Various small applications to extend and improve job-shop production scheduling with many control interfaces and reports and full integration into the company’s ERP system § Created a fully extensible and comprehensive reporting system in Crystal Reports and SQL Server. § Redesigned the company’s web site (www.vgsonline.com) and added a web builder tool with a full visualization of a custom product. § Designed and implemented a complete inventory system and product coding system. |
| Employer: | K.N. Toosi University |
| Position: | Teaching Assistant |
| Time period: | February 2000 - April 2000 |
| Description: | Database Design |
EDUCATION
| University: | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Time period: | 2009 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
| University: | City University of New York System |
| Time period: | 2004 |
| Degree: | Computer Science, MSc |
PUBLICATIONS
| Articles: | § Mehrbod Sharifi and William Cohen. Finding domain specific polar words for sentiment
classification. Submitted to ECL. § Alexander Carpentier, Mehrbod Sharifi, Eugene Fink, and Jaime G. Carbonell. Scheduling with uncertain resources: Learning to ask the right questions. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2008. § Andrew Rosenberg, Mehrbod Sharifi, and Julia Hirschberg. Varying input segmentation for story boundary detection in English, Arabic and Mandarin broadcast news. In Proceedings of the Eighth Interspeech Conference, pages 77–80, 2007. § Esther Levin, Mehrbod Sharifi, and Jerry Ball. Evaluation of utility of LSA for word sense discrimination. In Proceedings of the NAACL Human Language Technology Conference, pages 2589–2592, 2006. § Peter Brass and Mehrbod Sharifi. A lower bound for Lebesgue's universal cover problem. International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications, 15(5), pages 537–544, 2005. § Mehrbod Sharifi. Adopting the object-oriented methodologies for analyzing and documenting industrial systems (combining the UML and other OO concepts with the quality assurance system and ISO9000 standards). Undergraduate thesis, K.N. Toosi University, 2001. |
INFORMATION
| Awards: | § Siebel Scholarship (2009) awarded on the basis of academic performance and qualities of
leadership § Winner of Kharazmi Young Innovator Prize (Iran) for developing utility kits in C/Assembly |
