I am a faculty member of Department of Mathematics and Computing Science at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada. I am interested in complex networks and networ science, with particular focus on its applications in bioinformatics and wireless communications.

Prior to joining SMU, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Dalhousie University, BeikoLab working with Prof. Robert Beiko and at Memorial University, working with Prof. Ting Hu and Prof. Yuanzhu Chen .

I completed my undergraduate (Amirkabir University, Iran), MSc (Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran) and PhD degrees (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) in Computer Engineering.

We are looking for highly motivated PhD students. Further details can be found here.

Research Interests

  • Network Science
  • Bioinformatics
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Graph Neural Networks
  • Explainable AI
  • Wireless Mesh Networks