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Personal Information

First Name: AMIR

Last Name: HOUMANSADR

Birth Date: 17th June , 1980

Gender: Male

 

Education

Fall 2006-present University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

PhD student

 

2003-2005  Sharif University of Technology, Tehran , Iran

M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering / Communications

GPA: 17.09 out of 20

 

1998-2003  Sharif University of Technology, Tehran , Iran

B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering / Communications

     

1994-1998  Mofid High School, Tehran , Iran

Mathematics-Physics Diploma

 

Honors, Awards and Internships

The "Excellent  young student researcher" award by Iran Telecommunication Research Center, 2006

Ranked 3 between 10 M.Sc. graduates in Communications, 2005

Ranked 63rd amongst nearly 11,000 participants in the 'Nation-Wide University Entrance Exam for M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering', 2003

Internship in Iran Telecom Research Center , spread spectrum systems, 2001

Ranked 70th amongst nearly 350,000 participants in the 'Nation-Wide University Entrance Exam for B.Sc. degree', 1998

Ranked 2nd amongst 140 graduates of the Mofid High School , 1998

Qualified to the semi-final stage of the 'National Computer Olympiad', 1997

Qualified to the semi-final stage of the 'National Physics Olympiad', 1997   

 

Publications

Houmansadr, A., and Ghaemmaghami, S., 'A Collusion-Resistant Video Watermarking Scheme,'  the 8th International Conference o IH2006, Alexandria, USA, July 2006, To Appear in the Springer LNCS book

Houmansadr, A., and Ghaemmaghami, S., 'A Novel Video Watermarking Method Using VC,' IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, April 2006

Houmansadr, A., Pirsiavash, H., and Ghaemmaghami, S., 'Robust Content-based Video Watermarking Exploiting Motion Entropy Masking Effect,' International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP2006), 2006, Portugal 

Houmansadr, A., and Ghaemmaghami, S., 'Robustness enhancement of content based watermarks using entropy masking effect,' Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3710, pp. 444-458. (Proc. 4th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking (IWDW2005))

Houmansadr, A., 'Entropy Video Watermarking Using HVS Models,' M.Sc. Thesis, Nov. 2005, Supervisors: Prof. S. Ghaemmaghami and Prof. F. Marvasti

Houmansadr, A., and Ghaemmaghami, S., 'A digital image watermarking scheme based on VC', in Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Telecommunications (IST2005), Shiraz , Iran , September 2005

Houmansadr, A., 'Synchronization Methods in PSK Modulation,' B.Sc. Thesis, Sept. 2001

 

Teaching Experiences

Teacher Assistant, 'Stochastic Processes' course,  spring semester 2005, Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology

Teacher Assistant, 'Circuits and Measurements Laboratory', spring semester 2005, Electrical Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology

Teacher Assistant, 'Physics' and 'Mathematics', 1998-2001, Mofid High School

  

Memberships and Affiliations

Center for Reliable and High performance Computing (CRHC), UIUC

Alumni Association of Sharif University of Technology (SUTA)

Alumni Association of Mofid High School