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Samad Ahmadi

Samad Ahmadi
Dr Samad Ahmadi
Principal  Lecturer,
School of Computing
De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK
tel: ++44 (0)116 250 6314
fax: ++44 (0)116 257 7936
email: sahmadi at dmu.ac.uk
Employment
Principal Lecturer(current), Dept. of Informatics, Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow(2001-2003), ASAP, School of Computer Science and IT, University of Nottingham, UK
Assistant Professor(1998-2001), Department of Mathematics, University of Alzahra, Tehran, Iran (more...)
Education
BSc (Iran), MSc (Sharif University of Technology, Iran), PhD (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK) 
Research
My current research interests include: Applications of artificial intelligence in optimisation, Serious games and virtual worlds,  University Timetabling, Clustering and Location problems, theoretical aspects of optimisation, Meta-heuristics, web log Mining
Academic Activities

- Founding chair of the IEEE CE Society Games Innovation conference (ICE-GIC)
- Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
- Member of editorial board of Journal of Memetic Computing,
- Member of steering committee for IEEE transaction on Computational intelligence and AI for games,
- Member of the steering committee of the IEEE transaction on Autonomous Mental Development
- Representative of of IEEE CE society in AI for games
- Member of the reviewing board of IEEE transaction on Consumer Electronics

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*Picture in the background is a pictorial representation of the number of possible clusterings of 50 points into 1, 2, ...,50 clusters. This is the Stirling number of the second kind calculated for different values by Maple. The visualisation provides a good insight into the size of the solution space for clustering problems and their different properties and complexity issues. For further details please see: Samad Ahmadi, Ibrahim H. Osman, "Density Based Problem Space Search for the Capacitated Clustering p-Median Problem", Annals of Operations Research, Volume 131, Issue 1-4, October 2004, Pages 21 - 43;

Recent Academic Activities

  1. Founding chair of the IEEE consumer electronics Games Innovation conference
  2. Director of the Games Innovation Lab (GIL) in the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) of De Montfort University
  3. Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
  4. Member of editorial board of the journal of Memetic Computing,
  5. Member of steering committee for IEEE transaction on Computational intelligence and AI for games,
  6. Representative of of IEEE CE society in AI for games
  7. Member of the Program Committee of IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (2009), Nashville, USA
  8. Member of the program committee for the 2nd European Conference on Games Based Learning, Barcelona, Spain 16-17 October 2008
  9. Invited speaker in Paris game Developers Conference (ParisGDC 08): Implementing AI algorithms in video games, 23-24 June 2008, Paris,
  10. Member of Industry & Academia IT Think Tank for Microsoft UK Council 2007

Recent Publications