Education

  • University of Utah, School of Computing, Salt Lake City, Utah
    Ph.D. in Data Mining, Aug 2012 - present
     Advisor: Jeff Phillips
  • Sharif University of Technology, Computer Engineering Department, Tehran, Iran
    M.Sc. in Software Engineering, 2010 - 2012
     GPA: 4/4
  • Sharif University of Technology, Computer Engineering Department, Tehran, Iran
    B.Sc. in Software Engineering, 2006 - 2010
     GPA: 3.8/4

Publications

  • Relative Errors for Deterministic Low-Rank Matrix Approximations, Mina Ghashami, Jeff M. Phillips, ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA 2014).

  • DLPR: A Distributed Locality Preserving Dimension Reduction Algorithm , Mina Ghashami, H.Mashayekhi, J.Habibi,
    International Conference on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IDCS 2012), Proceeding by Springer lecture notes in computer science (LNCS).

Research Interests

  • Data streaming algorithms, Data mining, Machine learning
  • Information retrieval, Data structures, Designing and analyzing algorithms

Awards and Honors

  • Ranked 19th in the MS National University Entrance Exam in software engineering field, among approximately 82,000 participants; Summer 2010
  • Ranked 136th in the BS National University Entrance Exam in all fields of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, among approximately 500,000 participants; Summer 2005
  • Selected for study in schools of National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET) through an exam with less than 1% acceptance rate