Career Profile

I am currently a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Dr. Richard Vaughan in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University as a member of Autonomy Lab. I'm also working as a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple.

Honors & Awards

IROS JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture

October 2018
Madrid, Spain

Awarded to "Hands and Faces, Fast: Mono-Camera User Detection Robust Enough to Directly Control a UAV in Flight".

2nd Place in 8th International CanSat Competition

June 2013
Abilene, Texas, U.S.A

Part of the EagleSat team, Amirkabir University of Technology, as member, Alternative Team Leader, Ground Control Station designer , Portable Ground Station designer and Flight software developer.

1st Place in Small Size League’s Mixed Team and Technical Challenge,
Robocup 2013

June 2013
Eindhoven, Netherlands

1st Place in Small Size Soccer Robots League Mixed Team Challenge.
1st Place in Small Size Soccer Robots League Technical Challenge Navigation Challenge.
Part of the Parsian Robotic team in Small Size league as Team Leader and Head Developer

9th Place in Asia Regional ACM-ICPC

December 2012
Tehran, Iran

4th Place in International RoboCup Competition,
Small-Size Soccer League

June 2012
Mexico City, Mexico

Also 1st Place in Small Size Soccer Robots League Technical Challenge.
Part of the Parsian Robotic team in Small Size league as Head Developer

2nd Place in IranOpen RoboCup 2012 Competition,
Small-Size Soccer League

April 2012
Tehran, Iran

Also 1st Place in Small Size Soccer Robots League Technical Challenge.
Part of the Parsian Robotic team in Small Size league as Head Developer

2nd Place in Iran-Telecom Robotic Competition

October 2011
Tehran, Iran

As a member of the Parsian Robotic team in Small Size league

2nd Place in Khwarizmi International Robotic Competition,
Small-Size Soccer League

October 2010
Tehran, Iran

As a member of the Parsian Robotic team in Small Size league

2nd Place in Technical Challenge, International RoboCup Competition
Small-Size Soccer League

June 2010
Singapore

As a member of the Parsian Robotic team in Small Size league

Publications

Simultaneous measurements of three-dimensional trajectories and wingbeat frequencies of birds in the field - Hangjian Ling, Guillam E. Mclvor, Geoff Nagy, Sepehr MohaimenianPour, Richard T. Vaughan, Alex Thornton and Nicholas T. Ouellette
Journal of The Royal Society Interface The Royal Society , 15 (147) 2018

Hands and Faces, Fast: Mono-Camera User Detection Robust Enough to Directly Control a UAV in Flight - Sepehr Mohaimenianpour, Richard Vaughan
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018

UAV, come to me: End-to-end, multi-scale situated HRI with an uninstrumented human and a distant UAV - Mani Monajjemi, Sepehr Mohaimenianpour, Richard Vaughan
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016

Adaptive Multiagent Path Planning with Dynamic Heuristic - SeyedMehdi MohaimenianPour, Mohammed Behbooei, Saeed Shiry Ghidary
Proceedings of the Intelligent Autonomous Systems 13. Springer International Publishing (IAS13), 2013

Videos

Research Experiences

Graduate Research Assistant in Robotics

2016 - Present

Research Student in Robotics & Computer Vision

2014 - 2015

Researcher, Lead Developer & Team Leader

2009 - 2014

Research Student in Computer Vision

2010 - 2012

Projects

Skills & Proficiency

C++ & Qt.

ROS, C, Bash & Python

Machine Learning, Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning

MatLab(Octave)

Electronics

Photography, Web Developement & Design