Facial Expression Recognition

• Exploratory Data Analysis (Jupyter Notebook 1)

• Data Preprocessing (Jupyter Notebook 2)

• Model Training and Analysis (Jupyter Notebook 3)

• Real-time Facial Expression Recognizer (Jupyter Notebook 4)

Visualization of Airbnb's presence in city of Vancouver

• Data Visualization in Tableau (Tableau Dashboard on Tableau Public)

• Data Cleaning (Jupyter Notebook)

Handwritten Digit Recognizer with MNIST Data Set

• Model training, comparison and analysis (Logistic Regression, KNN, Decision Trees, Random Forests, SVM, Gradient Boosting) *

Analyzing data from previous US presidential elections

• EDA and Data Cleaning *

• Statistical analysis and data visualization *

• Statistical modeling, model selection and interpretation *

Trip data form BIXI, Montréal's bike sharing system

• Basic SQL Queries on MySQL Workbench *

• Data visualization and reporting using Tableau and Microsoft Excel *

* The last three projects were delivered as project assignments for BrainStation's Data Science Diploma program and cannot be shared publicly. Please feel free to contact me through LinkedIn for Email and I will be happy to share the source codes and Jupyter Notebooks with you.

JOURNAL PAPERS:

Modification of DIRECT [Global Optimization Algorithm] for High-Dimensional Design Problems [in MATLAB]

Arash Tavassoli, Kambiz Hajikolaei, Soheil Sadeqi, G. Gary Wang, and Erik Kjeang

Journal of Engineering Optimization, Vol 46, 2014 (Link)

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Effect of Catalyst Layer Defects on Local Membrane Degradation in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells

Arash Tavassoli, Chan Lim, Joanna Kolodziej, Michael Lauritzen, Shanna Knights, G. Gary Wang and Erik Kjeang

Journal of Power Sources, Vol 322, 2016 (Link)

THESES:

Optimization of Active Flat‐Plate Solar Collectors Using Genetic Algorithm

Bachelor of Science dissertation, School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Tehran, 2011

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Investigating the Local Membrane Degradation Mechanisms in PEM Fuel Cells

Master of Applied Science dissertation, School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Simon Fraser University, 2014