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Alireza Vahdatpour

Former Post-Graduate Fellow

2010 fall cohort

MSc, PhD, Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles

BSc, Computer Engineering
Sharif University of Technology

Alumni Profile

Alireza Vahdatpour joined the Post-Graduate Fellowship program in 2010 and workedwith two research teams while at IHME: Optimal Resource Allocations and Verbal Autopsy.

His research involved direct estimation of cause-specific mortality fractions from verbal autopsies and verbal autopsy analysis using the random forests method, an innovative computer-coded approach to improving assignment of cause of death.

Upon completion of his fellowship, he joined Microsoft as a Research Software Developer Engineer for the Bing search engine, working on terabyte scale machine learning and data mining solutions. 

Published Works

Flaxman AD, Vahdatpour A, Green S, James SL, Murray CJL, the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC). Random Forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Population Health Metrics. 2011; 9:29.

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Vahdatpour A, Amini N, Sarrafzadeh M. On-body device localization for health and medical monitoring applications. PerCom 2011: Ninth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. 2011 March 21-25; Seattle, USA.
Vahdatpour A, Sarrafzadeh M. Unsupervised discovery of abnormal activity occurrences in multi-dimensional time series, with applications in wearable systems. 2010 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. 2010 April 29-May 1; Austin, TX, USA.

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Research Articles

Flaxman AD, Vahdatpour A, Green S, James SL, Murray CJL, the Population Health Metrics Research Consortium (PHMRC). Random Forests for verbal autopsy analysis: multisite validation study using clinical diagnostic gold standards. Population Health Metrics. 2011; 9:29.

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Vahdatpour A, Amini N, Sarrafzadeh M. On-body device localization for health and medical monitoring applications. PerCom 2011: Ninth Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications. 2011 March 21-25; Seattle, USA.
Vahdatpour A, Sarrafzadeh M. Unsupervised discovery of abnormal activity occurrences in multi-dimensional time series, with applications in wearable systems. 2010 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining. 2010 April 29-May 1; Austin, TX, USA.
Vahdatpour A, Amini N, Sarrafzadeh M. Toward unsupervised activity discovery using multi-dimensional motif detection in time series. IJCAI-09: 21st International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2009 July 11-17; Pasadena, CA, USA.
Dabiri F, Vahdatpour A, Noshadi H, Hagopian H, Sarrafzadeh M. Electronic orthotics shoe: preventing ulceration in diabetic patients. IEEE-EMBC 08: 30th Annual International IEEE EMBS Conference. 2008 Aug 20-24; Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Wu W, Au L, Jordan B, Stathopoulos T, Batalin M, Kaiser W, Vahdatpour A, Sarrafzadeh M, Fang M, Chodosh J. The SmartCane System: an assistive device for geriatrics. BodyNets 2008: Third International Conference on Body Area Networks. 2008 March 13-15; Tempe, AZ, USA.

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