ÿþ<html> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <title> Links, Ghasem Naddafzadeh Shirazi </title> <meta name=CREATED content="20080315;14104700"> <meta name=CHANGEDBY content="Ghasem Naddafzadeh Shirazi"> <meta name=CHANGED content="20110924;15192900"> <meta name=DESCRIPTION content="Ghasem naddafzadeh Shirazi Homepage, resume, C.V.,&#13;&#10;awards, Shiraz university, NUS, UBC, research on Ultra wideband UWB sensor networks,&#13;&#10;MAC, routing, Cooperative MAC communication, cooperative communication, wireless sensor networks, Convex optimization, WSN, quality of service QoS.&#13;&#10;MDP, Partially observable Markov Decision Process POMDP, Reinforcement learning, optimization, modelling"> <meta name=KEYWORDS content="Ghasem naddafzadeh Shirazi Homepage, resume, C.V., awards, Shiraz university, NUS, UBC, research on Ultra wideband UWB sensor networks, MAC, Convex optimization, routing, Cooperative MAC communication, cooperative communication, wireless sensor networks, WSN, quality of service QoS.MDP, Partially observable Markov Decision Process POMDP, Reinforcement learning, optimization, modelling"> <!-- meta name=verify-v1 content="TUAOaDzHOMelBMfBTB9fubix54GyHtJdhHJs4fZZnAA=" !--> </head> <!-- body bgcolor="#9FD08F" lang=EN-US link="#405A46" vlink="#405A46" style='tab-interval:.5in' !--> <!-- body bgcolor="#9FD08F" lang=EN-US link="#773A3A" vlink="#502A2A" style='tab-interval:.5in' !--> <body bgcolor="#9FD08F" lang=EN-US link="#0000C0" vlink="#0000C0"> <!-- body bgcolor="#9FD08F" !--> <table> <tr> <td> <p><font size="5"> <!-- img width=118 height=132 src="pics/naddaf.jpg" align=right v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2" !--> <b> <font color="#5A2A2A">Ghasem Naddafzadeh Shirazi</font></b> &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp <!-- 10 spaces !--> &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp <font size="5">[<a href="index.html">Home</a>]</font> <br> </font> &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp ECE Department, Univesity of British Columbia, &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp <font size="5">[<a href="resume.html">Resume</a>]</font> <br> &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp 4090 - 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4. &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp <font size="5">[<a href="research.html">Publications</a>]</font> <br> &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp email: naddaf [at] ece [dot] ubc [dot] ca &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp &nbsp&nbsp <font size="5">[<a href="tutorials.html">Links</a>]</font> </p> <font size="5" color="#5A2A2A"> Useful Links</font> <hr> <p> <font size="5" color="#5A2A2A"> Programming:</font> <br> <A HREF="code.html"> Source Codes </A><BR> <A HREF="http://www.cplusplus.com" target="_blank"> C++ A-Z </A><BR> <A HREF="http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tsiknis/cics216/" target="_blank"> CICS216: C++ data structures </a> course and assignments (designed by me) <BR> <A HREF="http://docs.python.org/tutorial/controlflow.html#break-and-continue-statements-and-else-clauses-on-loops" target="_blank"> Python: "else" Clauses on Loops! </a> <BR> <A HREF="http://acm.uva.es/problemset/" target="_blank"> A large collection of ACM problems </a> <BR> <font size="5" color="#5A2A2A"> Tutorials and E-books:</font> <br> <A HREF="http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/ebook/the-book.html" target="_blank">Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction</A> Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998. <BR> <A HREF="http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/bv_cvxbook.pdf" target="_blank">Convex Optimization</A> S. Boyd and Vandenberghe, Cambridge University Press<BR> <A HREF="http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/2000/Readings/Petrov/rltutorial.pdf" target="_blank">Reinforcement Learning: A Tutorial </A>M.E. and S.S. Harmon <BR> <A HREF="http://www.cs.brown.edu/research/ai/pomdp/tutorial/index.html" target="_blank">POMDP tutorials</A><BR> <A HREF="http://www.scivee.tv/node/6699" target="_blank">Introduction to compressive sensing (Video)</A><BR> <A HREF="http://www.bic-englishlearning.com/ielts.pdf" target="_blank">IELTS preparation</A><BR> <font size="5" color="#5A2A2A"> Academic Research:</font> <br> <A HREF="http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/research-tips/" target="_blank">How to do research, some guidelines</A><BR> <A HREF="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mleone/how-to.html" target="_blank">More guidelines!</A><BR> <A HREF="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/BadCareer.pdf" target="_blank">Guidelines for a bad career !</A><BR> <A HREF="http://ica1www.epfl.ch/PS_files/paper.htm" target="_blank">How to do write a paper, some guidelines by Prof. J. Le Boudec</A><BR> <A HREF="http://sites.google.com/site/hwymeers/Home/research" target="_blank">Some UWB Research Problems, Dr. Henk Wymeersch</A><BR> <font size="5" color="#5A2A2A">University Rankings:</font><br> <A HREF="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=243&amp;pubCode=1" target="_blank">Times Higher Education University Ranking</A> and the <A HREF="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&amp;storycode=403834&amp;c=1"><B>debate</B></A> about it, see my comments about Sharif University of Technology there.)<BR> <A HREF="http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2011/faculty-area-rankings/technology" target="_blank">QS Rankings</A> Finally, Sharif University of Technilogy appears in this ranking (264th).<BR> <A HREF="http://www.arwu.org" target="_blank">ARWU</A><BR> <font size="5" color="#5A2A2A">Latex and Other Wikis:</font><br> <A HREF="dl/Thesis.zip">Style and sample Latex file</A> for writing M.Sc. / PhD Thesis. (Based on NUS and UBC standards for PhD thesis, adapted from Duke CS Dept. style.)<BR> <A HREF="http://ctg.ece.ubc.ca/wiki/doku.php" target="_blank"> UBC DataComm Group Wiki</A><BR> <font size="5" color="#5A2A2A">Personal:</font><br> <A HREF="http://sites.google.com/site/ghasemphotos/" target="_blank">Some photos</A> of me.<BR> </p> <br> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>