Curriculum Vitae
Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi
A. PERSONAL
Email: mebrahim@sfu.ca
Citizenship: American and Canadian (dual)
B. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
University of California, San Diego: 2006 - Present
, Mathematics, PhD
Simon Fraser University: Fall 2003 - Winter 2006
, Applied Mathematics, BSc
C. AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
- NSF Honorable Mention, March 2007
- Co-recipient of the 2005-2006 Mathematics Undergraduate Research Prize at Simon Fraser
University, Feb 2007.
- UCSD full fee scholarship. Fall 2006
- UCSD research fellowship. Fall 2006
- NSERC postgraduate scholarship for abroad. Fall 2006
- Poster Award winner (first prize) at the poster session of the annual CECM meeting conference,
Drawing graphs by numerical solution of a system of second order ordinary differential equations.
SFU, Summer 2005.
- Poster Award winner (second prize) at the poster session of the annual CECM meeting conference,
Visualizing System of Differential Equations in Maple for direction fields in Maple.
SFU, Summer 2005.
- NSERC Undergraduate Student Award. Summer 2005
- Simon Fraser University Alumni Scholarship. Spring 2005
- Simon Fraser University Open Scholarship. Spring 2005
- Canadian In-course Millennium Excellence Award. Fall 2004
- Honorary Organizations: Golden Key International Honor Society. 2004
- Simon Fraser University Open Scholarship. Fall 2004
- Poster Award winner at the poster session of the annual CECM meeting conference,
New visuals for direction fields in Maple. SFU, Summer 2004.
- Simon Fraser University Open Scholarship. Summer 2004
- NSERC Undergraduate Student Award. Summer 2004
- Nominated to receive the E. E. Levees Award in Mathematics and Statistics by the Mathematics Department at Langara College. 2003
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D. PRIMARY RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Numerical methods for partial differential equations
- Numerical analysis
- Mathematical modeling and scientific computation
- Computer Algebra
E. MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
- American Mathematical Society. AMS
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. SIAM
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F. PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Research Assistant: Summer 2004 - Dec 2005
Centre for Experimental and Constructive Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Monagan
Research Assistant: Summer 2003- Spring 2004
Department of Mathematics-Colab, Simon Fraser University
Supervisor: Dr. Russell Luke
Research Assistant: Fall 2003
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Supervisor: Dr. Michele Chen
Teaching Assistant: September 2000-Spring 2003
Department of Mathematics, Langara College
See attached list for courses which I have tutored for
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G. LIST OF ACTIVITIES
- August 2005. I organized and originate the fist Annual Undergraduate Research Day in
Mathematics at Simon Fraser University.
- May 2005- September 2005, I organized a weekly meeting for the summer research undergraduate students at SFU. Every week two students had presented their research work in front of the department.
- January 2005- Present, I organized a GRE Mathematics subject test weekly meeting/study
group for undergraduate and graduate students at Simon Fraser University.
- September 2002-Present, OnlineMathHelp.com, West Vancouver, BC. I voluntarily created the website for tutoring
High school and college students in the subjects of Mathematics and Physics
- MOE Tutoring Limited, North Vancouver, BC. I Tutored High school and
college students in the subjects of Mathematics and Physics. I was the Owner of the business
- September 2000-Spring 2003, West Coast Tutoring Center, West Vancouver, BC.
I Tutored High school and college students in the subjects of Mathematics and Physics
H. LIST OF SCHOLARLY CONTRIBUTIONS
Papers:
- Ebrahimi, Ghebleh, Khodad, Monagan, Javadi, Wittkopf. A Graph Theory Package for Maple, Part 2: Graph Colouring, Graph Drawing, Support Tools and Networks. Maplesoft Conference 2006
- Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi, Michael Monagan. New options to visualize system of differential. Maplesoft Conference 2005
Posters:
- Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi, Youngsuk Lee. Stochastic Bifurcation in Population Model and Brusselator. Graduate poster session, SFU, Oct 2005
- Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi, Michael Monagan. Drawing graphs by numerical solution of
a system of second order ordinary differential equations. Maple Conference 2005.
Waterloo, July 2005
- Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi, Michael Monagan. Visualizing systems of differential
equations in Maple. MITACS 6th Annual meeting, Calgary. May 2005
- Ashley Pitcher, Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi, Exploring Direction Field Plots. An Interactive Maplet Using New Options for DEplot. ORCCA meeting. University of Western Ontario, 2004
- Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi, Michael Monagan, Maple Summer Workshop, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo New visuals for direction fields in Maple, July 2004
Talks:
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The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Ramsey Theory: Old, New and Unknown", IRMACS, SFU, Dec 2005
- Dawring Graphs,1st Annual Undergraduate Research Day in Mathematics at SFU. Burnaby, August 2005.
- New options to visualize system of differential equations in Maple. Maple Conference
2005. Waterloo, July 2005.
- Mathematics and technology, Canadian science fair. UBC. May 2005
- Mathematics and technology, Scientific I. Simon Fraser University. Feb 2005.
- New options to visualize solutions to system of differential equations in MAPLE. Annual Applied Mathematics Graduate Student Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, January 2005.
- Visualizing systems of differential equations in Maple. Computer Algebra Group Colloquia, Simon Fraser University. January 2005
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I. LIST OF CONFERENCES ATTENDED
- 1st Annual Undergraduate Research Day in Mathematics at SFU. August, 2005.
- Conference on: Adaptivity and Beyond: Computational Methods for Solving Differential Equations.
Celebrating the 60th birthday of Robert D. Russell. August, 2005.
- CECM Summer Meeting. Burnaby, Canada. July 2004.
- Maple Conference 2005. Waterloo, July 2005.
- 6th Annual meeting, Calgary. May 2005.
- CECM 1st Annual Applied Mathematics Graduate Student Colloquium, SFU, January 2005.
- West Coast Optimization Meeting, Burnaby, October 2003
- Maple Summer Workshop, Waterloo, July 2004
- CECM Summer Meeting, Burnaby, July 2004
J. SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES
- C, C++, Matlab, Maple Programming language.
- LaTeX text Processing
- Proficient in writing and presenting research reports