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  Interests

 Smart environments, assisted living,  machine learning, data mining, human factors.

My main research interest is "smart environments" with an emphasis on AI, machine learning, data mining, and also human factors, especially with applications in healthcare and assisted living. I started working in this area in Fall 2006, as the main topic of my master thesis under the supervision of Prof. Diane J. Cook (CASAS project). You can find my master thesis here, which mostly talks about how we can make a smart home a more flexible, more user friendly, more adaptive entity, by developing a smart home that adapts to its residents. It has a component for finding frequent and periodic patterns called FPAM, a decision making component called HAM, and an adaptive component called AAM, and finally a user interface component called CASA-U.

 

You can read the "New Scientist" article on our project here.

For my PhD dissertation,  I'm mostly focused on developing methods to help people with memory deficits through scalable/practical smart environments. We are working on developing methods for transferring learned knowledge in one smart environment to another in order to bootstrap the learning process. Such a transfer can include many aspects of the smart environment, such as transferring between different residents, different sensor types, different physical spaces, or even transferring learned ADL cues for people with memory deficits (this is the one that I love). Learning and transferring customized cues for each person is an exciting job, and we are working with WSU's psychology department on this to develop and provide tools for people with memory deficits, such as dementia.   

(You can find a .pdf version of my CV here.)  

(You can find more information on CASAS project, and smart home datasets here.)

  Education

  • PhD student - Computer Science
    • 2008 - 2011, EECS, Washington State University, US
  • MS.c - Computer Science
    • 2006 - 2008, EECS, Washington State University, US
  • Graduate coursework - Artificial Intelligence
    • 2005 - 2006, ECE, University of Tehran, Iran
  • BS, Computer Engineering
    • 2000 - 2005, ECE, University of Tehran, Iran

  Employment History

  • Industry
    • Microsoft Medical Media Lab (M3L), Summer 2009
    • Microsoft Research, Robotics group, Summer 2008
    • DPE Co., Developer, Tehran, Spring 2004
    • NFO Co., Developer, Tehran, 2002-2003
  • Research Experience
    • Research assistant , WSU - 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
  • Teaching Experience
    • Graduate Courses
      • Machine Learning (2008) , Distributed Systems (2007-2008), Advanced Theory of Computation (2008), Neural Networks (2006)
    • Undergraduate Courses
      • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (2007), Introduction to Automata and Formal Language theory (2007), Program Development & Design (2006), Management Information Systems (2004)

  Publications

  Journals

  1. Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook, "Transferring Learned Activities and Cues between Different Residential Spaces", submitted to Journal of Mobile and Pervasive Computing. Feb 2010.

  2. Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe, Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook, Larry Holder. Discovering and Tracking Activities for Assisted Living,  The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. In Press, 2010.

  3. Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook, , Larry Holder, Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe.  Discovering Activities to Recognize and Track in a Smart Environment, IEEE Transaction of Data and Knowledge Engineering. In Press, 2010.

  4. Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook. Keeping the Resident in the Loop: Adapting the Smart Home to the User, IEEE transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics journal, Part A, 39(5):949-959, 2009.

  Book Chapters

  1. Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook. An Adaptive Sensor Mining Framework for Pervasive Computing Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pages 154-174. 2010.

  2. P. Rashidi, G. M. Youngblood, D. Cook, and S. Das, Inhabitant Guidance of Smart Environments, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Platforms and Techniques Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pages 910-919. 2007.

     

  Conferences

  1. Parisa Rashidi and Diane J. Cook. Multi Home Transfer Learning for Resident Activity Discovery and Recognition. In KDD Conference, 2010, submitted.

  2. Parisa Rashidi, Diane J. Cook, "Home to home transfer learning", submitted to AAAI 2010.

  3. Parisa Rashidi and Diane J. Cook. Transferring learned activities in smart environments between different residents. In International Conference on Intelligent Environments, volume 2, pages 185-192. Springer-Verlag, 2009.

  4. Parisa Rashidi and Diane J. Cook. Keeping the intelligent environment resident in the loop. In International Conference on Intelligent Environments, pages 1-9, 2008.

  5. Habib Karbasian and Parisa Rashidi. Pbt: Persian part of speech brill tagger.In IADIS International Conference Applied Computing, 2008.

  6. P. Rashidi, G. M. Youngblood, D. Cook, and S. Das, Inhabitant Guidance of Smart Environments. Interaction Platforms and Techniques. In Conference on Human Intercation International (HCII), pages 910-919. 2007.

 Workshops

  1. Parisa Rashidi and Diane J. Cook. An adaptive sensor mining framework for pervasive computing applications. In International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data(Sensor-KDD 2008), pages 41-49, 2008.

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  2. Parisa Rashidi and Diane J. Cook. Adapting to resident preferences in smart environments. In AAAI Workshop on Preference Handling, pages 78 84, 2008.

  3. Parisa Rashidi and Roger T. Alexander. Onspect: ontology based aspects. In 7th workshop on Foundations of aspect-oriented languages, pages 41 41, 2008.

  Experience

  • Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Python, GTK+, C# (WPF, WCF, WWF), Prolog, Lisp, AspectJ,
  • Platforms and Developing Tools: Visual Studio .Net, Eclipse, MSSQL Server, WEKA, MICO, TAO, MSRS, CVS, Matlab, SPSS
  • Methodologies, frameworks: RUP, MVC, XP, J2EE, Design Patterns, Aspect Oriented Software Design, CORBA

  Professional Affiliations & Activities

  • Program committee of 22nd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2010)
  • Program committee of IEEE PerCom Workshop on Smart Environments, 2010.
  • Reviewer of CHI 2010, Conference on Human factors in Computing Science
  • Program committee of 21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2009)
  • Reviewer of JAISE (Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments)
  • Reviewer of Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal.
  • Reviewer of Intelligent Environments 2009 Conference.
  • A student member of ACM.
  • A student member of IEEE.

  Honors

  • Invited member of Microsoft Faculty Summit 2008.
  • Best paper sensor KDD 2008.
  • Granted Student Bursary of AI-2005, Cambridge.
  • Granted Bursary of Max-Planck Summer School ADFOCS 2005, Germany.
  • Rank 57 in the nationwide University Master Entrance Exam 2005, among 8500 computer engineering students, Iran.
  • Rank 79 in the nationwide University Entrance Exam 2000, Among more than 800,000 students, Iran.
  • Being selected to participate in National Informatics Olympiad, 1996.

References available upon request.

Parisa Rashidi

 

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Washington State University (WSU),
Pullman, WA, 99164

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