Workshops and Talks

• Guest Lecture, Data Feminism, As part of the course Healthcare Ethics, Legal and Social Impact, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2025
• Talk, Data Feminism, As part of a workshop at REBEL, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden, November 2025
• Talk, Critiquing Power in Tech through an Intersectional Feminist Lens, National Equal Opportunities Conference, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, November 2025
• Talk, Bias and Fairness in ML Life Cycle, Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden, November 2025
• Talk, Epistemic Violence in AI, As part of the InspireTalks: talks on innovation and gender equality, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2025
• Workshop, The Invisible Labor Behind AI, As part of the REPAIR project, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, October 2025
• Talk, Hidden Hands of AI: Invisible Labor and Digital Imperialism, CMS Marx Conference (Marx25), Stockholm, Sweden, October 2025
• Keynote, Ecofeminist Interventions in AI Systems, Nobel Calling Open Lecture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2025
• Talk, Ecofeminist Interventions in AI Systems, MID Seminar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2025
• Guest Lecture, Ethics and Bias in Smart Cities, as part of the course Smart Cities and Climate Mitigation Strategies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2025
• Talk, Power Dynamics in Academia, Equality Forum at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2025
• Keynote, Ecofeminist Interventions in Distributed Systems, DEBS, The International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systtems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 2025
• Summer School, Feminist Perspectives on Technology: Power, Labor, and Justice, The FemTech and Feminist Tech Focus Period, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2025
• Talk, Power Dynamics in Academia, PhD Impact at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, January 2025
• Talk, Power Dynamics in Academia, PhD Chapter at KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2024
• Workshop, Exploring Bias in Generative Models, WASP-HS AI for Humanity and Society, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2024
• Talk, Data Feminism, Malvina, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2024
• Guest Lecture, Societal Aspects of Data Science, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, October 2024
• Talk, Data Feminism, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden, September 2024
• Talk, Critiquing Data Science Through a Feminist Lens, Sarv Study Circle, Online, Iran, September 2024
• Panellist, More Than Muscles in the Lab: Expanding Masculinities in a Competitive Research Culture, ADBIS Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Bayonne, France, August 2024
• Workshop, Critiquing Power in Tech, WASP Summer School on Generative AI, Norrköping, Sweden, August 2024
• Workshop, Equity and Justice in Computing, Workshop on Equity and Justice in Computing, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2024
• Docent talk, Generalized Reinforcement Learning for Gameplay, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2021 [slides]
• Talk, Distributed Deep Learning, AAISS, Amirkabir Artificial Intelligence Summer Summit, Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, August 2020 [slides]
• Keynote, Data Intensive Computing, ICCKE, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, 2018
• Keynote, Stratosphere, EIT ICT Labs and Cloudberry Science and Innovation Days, Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden (2014) [slides]
• Worskhop, Introduction to Deep Learning, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran, December 2018
• Workshop, Deep Learning for Poets, Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, December 2018 [slides1] [slides2] [slides3] [slides4] [videos]
• Talk, Processing Massive Graphs, AUT big data workshop, Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, April 2017 [slides]
• Workshop, Data Intensive Computing, Sharif ICT Innovation Center, Iran, August 2016 [slides] [videos]
• Workshop, Introduction to Spark, EIT Digital Summer School on Cloud Computing and Big Data, Sweden, June-July, 2016 [slides1] [slides2] [slides3] [slides4] [ipython notebooks]
• Workshop, Data Intensive Computing, SeRC, Sweden, February 2016 [slides] [zeppelin notebooks]
• Talk, Data Intensive Computing, Linux festival, Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, May 2015 [slides]
• Talk, Cloud Computing, Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Iran, April 2015 [slides]
• Workshop, Data Intensive Computing, eFarda, Iran, January 2015 [slides]
• Workshop, Introduction to Spark, Cafe Bazzar, Iran, January 2015 [slides]
• Workshop, Introduction to Spark, SICS Swedish ICT, Sweden, June 2014 [slides]
• Talk, P2P Content Distribution (BiTtorent and Spotify), Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT), Tehran, Iran, November 2014 [slides]

Projects

• DeepAqua-II (KTH, 2026 - 2028)
• ColibrAI: Research Lab and Network for Coliberative Development of AI (KTH, 2025 - 2026)
• The Missing Data: Reimagining AI Systems to Challenge Structural Silences (KTH, 2025 - 2026)
• DeepAqua (KTH, 2024 - 2026)
• DataCloud (KTH, 2021 - 2024)
• RISE AI Center (RISE, 2021 - 2022)
• Digital Cellulose Center (KTH, 2019 - 2022)
• ExtremeEarth (KTH, 2018 - 2021)
• Deep Medicine (Oxford, 2017 - 2018)
• FDB: Factorized Database (Oxford, 2017)
• DOIT: Data-driven optimization for intelligent and efficient Transports (SICS, Scania, 2016)
• BIDAF: The research within massive data analysis by means of machine learning (SICS, 2015)
• Trafmod: A Big Data architecture for traffic modeling (SICS, Ericsson, 2013 - 2014)
• E2E Clouds: A distributed and federated Cloud infrastructure (SICS, 2013)
• Clommunity: A Community networking Cloud in a box (SICS, 2013)
• PeerTV: Designing a flexible and efficient infrastructure for live streaming over Internet (SICS, 2008 - 2010)
• SICSIM: A discrete-event, flow-level simulator for simulating Peer-to-Peer overlays (SICS, 2008)
• BalticGrid: Integrating Tycoon and gLite Grid systems (PDC, 2007)
• Farsi Linux: Creating two Farsi GNU/Linux distributions, Learnux and Karamad (DPI, 2005)
• Embedded GNU/Linux: Creating embedded GNU/Linux distributions for Set-Top-Boxes and Thin Clients (Gata, 2004)

Journals, Conferences and Seminars

• Co-Chair of Digital Futures Future DigiLeaders, Stockholm, Sweden (2025)
• Organiziation member, Digital Futures Focus Period on FemTech and Feminist Tech, Stockholm, Sweden (2025)
• Organizer, Exploring Bias in Generative Models, Gothenburg, Sweden (2024)
• Organizer, Workshop on Equity and Justice in Computing, Stockholm, Sweden (2024)
• Organizer, EIT Digital Big Data Analytics Summer School, Stockholm, Sweden (2019)
• Organiziation member, CASTOR Software Days, Stockholm, Sweden (2019)
• Co-Chair of EuroMLSys, Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems, co-located with ACM EuroSys (2025)
• Area Co-Chair of JSys, Journal of System Research (2022)
• Track Co-Chair of CCNC, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (2017)
• PC member of ECML-PKDD, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (2025)
• PC member of WATCH, Workshop on Analytics, Telemetry, and Cybersecurity for HPCC, co-located with ACM CCS (2025)
• PC member of DICG, Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Common Good, co-located with IEEE ICDCS (2025)
• PC member of DICG, Workshop on Distributed Infrastructure for Common Good, co-located with ACM EuroSys (2022-2024)
• PC member of COMPSAC, IEEE COMPSAC Symposium on Autonomous Systems (2021-2025)
• PC member of DAMDID, International Conference on Data Analytics and Management in Data Intensive Domains (2022)
• PC member of EuroMLSys, Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems, co-located with EuroSys (2021-2024)
• PC member of SNTA, Workshop on Systems and Network Telemetry and Analytics - co-located with ACM HPDC (2020-2022)
• PC member of ICMLA, IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications - Deep Learning Special Session (2020)
• PC member of ICCCN, International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (2020)
• PC member of ICSPIS, International Conference on Signal Processing and Intelligent Systems (2020)
• PC member of ECN, Workshop on Edge Computing and Networking - co-located with ICCCN (2019)
• PC member of IoT, International Conference on Internet of Things and Applications (2019)
• PC member of CSICC, National CSI Computer Conference (2017)
• PC member of IUCC, IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (2014)
• PC member of INNOV, IARIA Conference on Communications, Computation, Networks and Technologies (2014)
• PC member of DAIS, IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (2013)
• Reviewer of TPDS, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• Reviewer of TOG, IEEE Transactions on Games
• Reviewer of JPDC, Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Reviewer of COMNET, Elsevier Computer Networks
• Reviewer of COMCOM, Elsevier Computer Communications
• Reviewer of COMPELECENG, Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering
• Reviewer of IS, Elsevier Information Systems
• Reviewer of FGCS, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems
• Reviewer of COMPJ, Oxford Journals The Computer Journal
• Reviewer of COMPD, Springer Computing
• Reviewer of PPNA, Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
• Reviewer of WI, Journal of Web Intelligence Consortium
• Reviewer of CPE, International Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
• Reviewer of International Journal of Algorithms
• Reviewer of JCM, Academy Publisher Journal of Communications
• Reviewer of IJBDI, International Journal of Big Data Intelligence
• Reviewer of JIT, International Journal of Internet Technology
• Reviewer of IJECE, Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Reviewer of CODASPY, ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (2020)
• Reviewer of ISPA, IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (2015)
• Reviewer of SIGMOD, ACM Special Interest Group on Management Of Data (2013)
• Reviewer of P2P, IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (2008 - 2011)
• Reviewer of DAIS, IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems (2011)
• Reviewer of CCNC, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (2010 and 2013)

Research Proposals and Grants

• Digital Futures Research Pairs
  Funded by Digital Futures, 2024-2026.
• Industrial PhD Student Position in AI
  Funded by WASP, 2020-2024.
• PhD Level Course in AI/ML
  Funded by WASP, 2018-2020.
• STREAMLINE: Improving Competitiveness of European Enterprises through Streamlined Analysis of Data at Rest and Data in Motion (Contributor)
  Funded by H2020, ICT-16-2015 Big Data, Volume: 3.2M Euro, 2016-2018.
• BIDAF: A Big Data Analytics Framework for a Smart Society (Contributor)
  Funded by KK-stiffen (KKS), Volume: 2.6M Euro, 2014-2019.

Other Courses and Slides

Distributed Systems (2015)

• Introduction [slides]
• Architectures [slides]
• Processes [slides]
• Communication [slides1] [slides2]
• Naming [slides]
• Synchronization [slides]
• Consistency and replication [slides]
• Fault tolerance [slides1] [slides2]
• Security [slides]
• Distributed file systems [slides]
• MapReduce [slides]

Operating Systems (2014) [course web page]

• Introduction [slides1] [slides2] [slides3]
• Processes [slides1] [slides2] [slides3]
• Threads [slides]
• Processes synchronization [slides1] [slides2]
• Processes scheduling [slides1] [slides2]
• Deadlocks [slides]
• Main memory [slides1] [slides2]
• Virtual memory [slides1] [slides2]
• Storage [slides]
• File system interface [slides]
• File system implementation [slides1] [slides2]
• I/O system [slides1] [slides2]
• Security [slides1] [slides2]

Distributed Computing, Peer-to-Peer and GRIDS (2008 - 2012)

• NoSQL Databases (2012) [pdf]
• Epidemic Algorithms (2012) [pdf]
• P2P Media Streaming (2012) [pdf]
• P2P Media Streaming (2011) [pdf]
• P2P Media Streaming (2010) [pdf]
• Chord (2010-2011) [pdf]
• Kademlia (2010-2011) [pdf]
• P2P Introduction (2010) [pdf]
• Pastry (2009) [pdf]
• Content Distribution Network (2008) [pdf]

Video Lectures on GNU/Linux (2006)

• Linux Startup (in Farsi) [mp4]
• Linux Kernel Architecture (in Farsi) [mp4]
• Linux Module Programming (in Farsi) [mp4]
• Linux Processes and IPC (in Farsi) [mp4]
• Linux Socket Programming (in Farsi) [mp4]
• Intrusion Detection Systems (in Farsi) [mp4]

Linux Device Driver (2004)

• Linux Kernel Architecture [pdf]
• Linux Module Programming [pdf]
• Debugging Techniques [pdf]
• Char. Drivers [pdf]
• Advanced Char. Drivers [pdf]
• Allocating Memory [pdf]
• Communicating with Hardware [pdf]
• Interrupt Handling [pdf]
• Kmod and Advanced Modularization [pdf]
• PCI Drivers [pdf]
• Block Drivers [pdf]
• Network Drivers [pdf]

GNU/Linux OS Lab. (2001)

• Linux Kernel Architecture [pdf]
• Linux Filesystem [pdf]
• Linux Installation [pdf]
• Linux Startup [pdf]
• Linux Processes and IPC [pdf]
• Linux Socket Programming [pdf]
• Linux Module Programming [pdf]

Slides

• X-Stream: Edge-centric Graph Processing using Streaming Partitions (2014) [pdf]
• Cloudy Weather for P2P, with a Chance of Gossip (2011) [pdf]
• Cloud Streaming (2011) [pdf]
• GLive: The Gradient overlay as a market maker for mesh-based P2P live streaming (2011) [pdf]
• Gozar: NAT-friendly Peer Sampling with One-Hop Distributed NAT Traversal (2011) [pdf]
• Sepidar: Incentivized Market-Based P2P Live-Streaming on the Gradient Overlay (2011) [pdf]
• gradienTv: Market-based P2P Live Media Streaming on the Gradient Overlay (2010) [pdf]
• P2P'10 At A Glance (2010) [pdf]
• Gossip Peer Sampling In The Real World (2010) [pdf]
• P2P Combinatorial Optimization (2009) [pdf]
• Hierarchical Codes: How to Make Erasure Codes Attractive for Peer-to-Peer Storage Systems (2008) [pdf]
• CliqueStream: An Efficient and Fault-resilient Live Streaming Network on a Clustered Peer-to-peer Overlay (2008) [pdf]
• P2P Live Streaming (2007) [pdf]
• A Survey on P2P Live Streaming (2007) [pdf]
• Implementation of User Level SLA for GLite using Tycoon (2007) [pdf]
• How to Remaster Fedore Core (2006) [pdf]
• Embedded Linux (2006) [pdf]
• Linux Overview (2006) [pdf]
• Linux Introduction (2006 - in Farsi) [pdf]
• Intrusion Detection System (2003) [pdf]

Some Useful Documents

• Implementation of User Level SLA for GLite using Tycoon (2007) [pdf]
• How to Build a Live CD (2006 - in Farsi) [pdf]
• How to Build Linux From Scratch - Version 6.0 (2006 - in Farsi) [pdf]
• How to Remaster Karamad Linux (2006 - in Farsi) [pdf]
• Embedded OS Benchmarking (2005) [pdf]