• Engineering Mathematics
• Linear Algebra
• Mechatronics
• Principles of Robotics
• Microprocessor Systems Design
• Digital systems 2
• Signals and Systems
• Electrical Circuits 2
• Computer design of digital systems
• Microprocessor and assembly language
• Digital Systems 1 Laboratory
• Digital Systems 2 Laboratory
• Microprocessor Laboratory
• Computer Architecture Laboratory
• Electrical Workshop/Laboratory
• Robotics Workshop/Laboratory
Department of Mechatronics Engineering,
Azad University of Tehran (South Branch), Tehran, Iran
• Master Thesis : "Object Recognition with Cortex-like Mechanisms"
Defended in Tuesday, 21 Sep. 2010,
Under Supervision of Dr. Reza Ebrahimpour (IPM - Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran)
• MicroMechatronics (MEMS/NEMS) Under Supervision of Prof. Mohammad Bagher Menhaj(Amirkabir University of Technology)
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,
Mazandaran University, Noshirvani Institute of Technology (NIT), Babol, Mazandaran, Iran
• Bachelor Project: "Design and Implementation of an Intelligent System for Targets Tracking (Static or Dynamic) and Shooting Toward Them (Shooting Robot) " Defended in Sep. 2007,
Under Supervision of Dr. Reza Ghaderi(Shahid Beheshti university,Tehran)
Shahid Beheshti High School, Amol, Mazandaran, Iran
Affiliated with the National Organization for the Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET)
Device for controlling the amount of spraying from the spray lance based on the distance to the tree.
Mounted sprayer with the ability to detect the type and amount of pest and adjust the amount of spraying based on the type and amount of pest.
Gold Cup (1st place Award) 13th International RoboCup Competitions (IranOpen 2018), Minesweeper Robots League, Tehran International Fair, April 3-7, 2018, Tehran, Iran
2nd place in the Professional Warrior Robots League of Iran (RoboSkill2018), March 7-9, 2018, Kerman, Iran.
Gold Cup (1st place Award) 12th International RoboCup Competitions (IranOpen 2017), Minesweeper Robots League, Tehran International Fair, April 5-7, 2017, Tehran, Iran
Gold Medal (1st Place Award) 11th Nationwide Robotics Competition and 1st Inventions and Innovations Special Exhibition for Hypothermia using NanoTextiles in Biomedical Engineering Category, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, October 11-13, 2015 Babol, Mazandaran, Iran
Gold for Best Award Winner for presentation “Feasibility of Using Nano Textiles for Hypothermia or Applied to a Part of the Body for Warmth” in 2nd National and 1st International Congress on Cellular and Molecular Advances in Non-Contagious Diseases, May 16-18, 2011, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran.
Gold Cup (1st place award) in The 6th “Iranian Intelligent Mice Robotics Contest” Shooting Robots league on July 7-9, 2008
Special Award Winner for Smallest size robot in the Iranian Students Line Tracking Robotics Contest (NIT) on March , 2007
Gold Medal (1st place award) for Championship in Chess tournament between schools of Amol county, Amol, Iran
Behnaz. Yousefghahari, Afra Vahidi-Shams, Davit Sekoyan, Ardeshir Guran, “Clinical gait analysis of a 16 years old patient with walking difficulties after surgery”, Proceedings of 35th conference COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS 2019, p. 263-239, Špičák Czech Republic ,November 4-6, 2019
Behnaz. Yousefghahari, Afra Vahidi-Shams, Ardeshir Guran, “Treatment of gait disorder in a child with mild cerebral palsy”, Proceedings of the 34th COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS 2018, pp. 131-132, Špičák Czech Republic ,October 31-November 2 , 2018
Ardeshir Guran, Behnaz Yousefghahari, Afra Vahidi-Shams, “Experimental gait analysis of a beginner trainee wearing Skyrunner boots”, Proceedings of the Computational Mechanics 2013, pp. 35-3 , Špičák Czech Republic November 4-6, 2013
Ali Ghaffari, Mahdieh Rezvan, Alireza Khodayari, Hossein Sadati, Afra Vahidi-Shams, “Driver's Head Pose Estimation Using a Hierarchical Classification on an Effective Feature Space”, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering,, vol. 226, no. 9, pp. 1233-1242, September 2012
Ardeshir Guran, Iman Naseh, Kianoosh Azizi, Afra Vahidi-Shams, Mandana Beyranvand, Behnaz Yousefghahari, “Spinal Column Deformities in Patients with Mechanical Low Back Pain”, 5th Annual Iranian Congress of Rheumatology Association & the First International Rheumatology Congress of Iran, 23 - 25 November, 2011. Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Volume 10, Supplement 8, p. 7, November, 2011
Ardeshir Guran, Iman Naseh, Kianoosh Azizi, Afra Vahidi-Shams, Mandana Beyranvand, Behnaz Yousefghahari, “Force Distribution Differences in L&R Fore/Hind foot in Patients with Mechanical LBP during Standing”, 5th Annual Iranian Congress of Rheumatology Association & the First International Rheumatology Congress of Iran, 23 - 25 November, 2011. Iranian Journal of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, Volume 10, Supplement 8, p. 78, December, 2011
Ali Ghaffari, Mahdieh Rezvan, Alireza Khodayari, Hossein Sadati, Afra Vahidi-Shams, “A New Head Pose Estimating Algorithm Based on a Novel Feature Space for Driver Assistant Systems”, IEEE International Conference on Signal & Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA 2011), November 16-18, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, (2011). pp. 180 - 185
Reza Ebrahimpour, Mona Amini, Afra Vahidi-Shams, “Common Techniques and Bio-Inspired Hierarchical Architecture for Automatic Farsi Handwritten Word Recognition Systems”, International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology (IJHIT), Vol. 4 No. 3, July, pp. 1-14, (2011).
Reza Ebrahimpour, Mona Amini, Afra Vahidi-Shams, “A New Combination Method Based on Different Representation of Data”, International Journal of Hybrid Information Technology (IJHIT), Vol. 4 No. 3, July, pp. 51-60, (2011).
Ali Ghaffari, Mahdieh Rezvan, Alireza Khodayari, Afra Vahidi-Shams, “A Robust Head Pose Tracking and Estimating Approach for Driver Assistant System”, IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety, July 10-12, Beijing, China, pp. 180-186, (2011).
Ardeshir Guran , Behnaz Yousefghahari , Mandana Bayranvand , Afra Vahidi-Shams, “Feasibility of Using Nano Textiles for Hypothermia or Applied to a Part of the Body for Warmth”, 2nd National and 1st International Congress on Cellular and Molecular Advances in Non-Contagious Diseases, May 16-18, 2011, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran. Cell Journal (Yakhteh), Volume 13, p. 40, spring 2011.
Ardeshir Guran, Afra Vahidi-Shams, “An Enhanced Approach In Motion Detection Of Human Movements”, 17th International Conference on Engineering Mechanics (EM 2011), Svratka, Czech Republic, May 9-12, pp. 163-166, (2011).
Afra Vahidi-Shams, Soheil Faridi, Seyed-Mahdi Khaligh Razavi, Reza Ebrahimpour & Mehrdad Javadi. “Expression Invariant Face Recognition Using Biologically Inspired Features from Visual Cortex Mechanism”. Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems (AJIIPS), Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 25-29, (2010).
Organization Committee member of The International Symposium on Health and Medical Sciences (ISHMS 2017), June 29-30 and July 1st 2017, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia.
Technical & Scientific Committee member of 12th RoboNIT Robotics Competitions, Artifical Intelligence & Exhibition of Inventions & innovations (RoboNIT 2017) and Referee for Firefighting robots League, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology February 6-8, 2017, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran.
Referee Committee member of 1st Lorestan Open Robotics Tournament (AflakCup), 31 October – 2 November, 2016, KhorramAbad, Lorestan, Iran.
Central Councilor of Robotics Permanent Secretariat for Babol Noshirvani University of Technology from 2016 to present.
Teaching Robotics Courses (Design, Setup and Programming), Faculty of electrical and computer engineering, Mazandaran University. 2016, Babolsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
Organization Committee member of 13th International Symposium on Stability, Vibration, and Control of Machines and Structures (SVCS 2016), June 16-18, 2016, Budapest, Hungary.
Technical & Scientific Committee member of 11th Nationwide Robotics Competition RoboNIT 2015 and Referee for 1st Inventions and Innovations Special Exhibition, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, October 11-13, 2015, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran
Organization and Technical & Scientific Committee member of 1st National Robotics Competition KachCup2015, Mazandaran Technical & Vocational Training Organization, Agust 12-14, 2015, Amol, Mazandaran, Iran
Organization Committee member of 12th International Symposium on Stability, Vibration, and Control of Machines and Structures (SVCS 2015), May 6 - 8, 2015. Prague, Czech Republic.
Referee Committee member of 4th Natinal Robotics contest Pishgaman Robotics, February 4-5, 2015, Rast, Gilan, Iran.
Organization Committee member of 11th International Symposium on Stability, Vibration, and Control of Machines and Structures (SVCS 2014). July 3 - 5, 2014, Belgrade, Serbia.
Referee Committee member of 1st International robotics competition FeizCup, 26 February_1 march, 2014, Kashan, Iran.
Executive Committee of national robotics competition PNU Cup, December 14-16, 2011 International Complex of National Iranian Oil Company OPEC, Mahmood Abad, Iran.
Supervisor and Referee Assessor for robotics competition 3rd SamaCup Natinal Robotics Competitions December 2011, Shiraz, Iran.
Central Committee member and Head of referee Committee for Fighter Robots league, national robotics competition (MUST Cup), Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran. November 27-30, 2011.
Head of Technical and Scientific Committee, MineSweeper Robots, IRI National Robotics Competitions and judging for Demo robots League, Tehran, Iran, October 19-21, 2011.
Technical and Scientific Committee member of “7th Robofire” and Referee for the (Fire Fighting Robots Contest) national robotics competitions,Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, April 2009, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran.
Technical and Scientific Committee member of “1st Khwarizmi Young Festival Robotics Competitions” Judging for the Deminer robots Leaguse (autonomous and manual) in Iran December, 2008, Asr e Enghelab Complex,Tehran, Iran.
Chair of the “14th Professional Exhibition on Electronics, Computer and Information Technology”,Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, April 2008, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran.
Deputy of the “6th Iranian Students Robotics Contest (NIT)” Robofire (Fire Fighting Deminer and Line Tracing Robots Contest),Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, April 2008, Babol, Mazandaran, Iran.
Teaching Robot Design & Setup (Elementary & Advanced) in Noushirvani Robotics Research Centre (NRC),Babol Noshirvani University of Technology.
Member of management committee & technical and scientific committee for several robotics competitions Including 2nd NIT to 5th NIT Robofire (Fire Fighting, Deminer and Line Tracing Robots Contest), 2004-2008
Editorial board member of the scientific Journal of the Association of Electrical and Computer Students of Mazandaran University ”Kahroba” (2004-2007)
Design and Programming of Microcontroller-based systems (Hardware: AVR families, PIC families…. Language: Assembly, C, Basic Bascom, Codevision Proteus Simulation Verilog HDL
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Mac OS
Familiar with Android App Development (Android Studio, MIT App Inventor, ADT for Eclipse IDE).
Expert in Matlab Programming & Simulation. (Image Proccessing and Machine Vision..)Familiar with SolidWorks, AutoCAD ,...
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
www.ieee.orgMember of Iranian Society of Mechatronics Engineers.
www.iranmechatronics.irMember of Iranian Organization for Engineering Order of Building.
www.irceo.netMember of Iranian Association of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
www.iaeee-iran.orgLaboratory of Robotic Research, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nooshirvani Institute of Technology.
Central Councilor of Robotics Permanent Secretariat for Babol Noshirvani University of Technology.