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Awards & Scholarships

• Awarded the followings:
  • National Security Impact Award, Technology Transfer from CaseWalls Project to Investigation Management System, D2D.CRC, 2017
  • Recognition Award, Data to Decision CRC, 2017
  • Outstanding Reviewer, Elsevier, 2017
  • National Security Impact Award, Integrated Law Enforcement Project, D2D.CRC, 2016
  • Recognition Award, Data to Decision CRC, 2016
  • Postdoctoral Writing Grant, UNSW Australia, 2013
  • Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), Australian Government, 2009-2012
  • Engineering Excellence Top-Up Scholarship (EETS), UNSW Australia, 2009-2012
  • Supplementary Engineering Award (SEA), UNSW Australia, 2009-2012
  • Postgraduate Research Support Scheme (PRSS), UNSW Australia, 2011
• Graduated with First Class Honours M.Sc.
• Graduated with First Class Honours B.Sc.
• Have passed the PhD examination where all examiners gave the highest score.
• Selected as an outstanding instructor in the Ministry of Science, Research & Technology, Zand Institute of Higher Education, 2008.
• Got the highest instructor evaluation (19.34/20), Shiraz Azad University, 2008.
• Accepted in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sharif University of Technology Iran-wide doctoral exam (First Honour Quota), 2008. Remarks: I cancelled my PhD in Sharif University of Technology, because I had decided to continue my studies in Australia.

Research Students (Academic Siblings):

• Samira GHODRATNAMA (@MQ-Sydney)
• Nabi REZVANI (@MQ-Sydney)
• Frank SCHILIRO (@MQ-Sydney)
• Usman SHAHBAZ (@MQ-Sydney)
• Farhad AMOUZGAR (@MQ-Sydney)
• Shahpar YAKHCHI (@MQ-Sydney)
• Mohssen GHAFARI (@MQ-Sydney)
• Vahid MORAVEJI (@MQ-Sydney)
• Alireza TABEBORDBAR (@UNSW-Sydney)
• Maisie BADAMI (@UNSW-Sydney)
• Senthil YUVARAJ (@UNSW-Sydney)
• MohammadAli YAGHOUBZADEH (@UNSW-Sydney)
• Shayan ZAMANIRAD (@UNSW-Sydney)
• Kushal VAGHANI (@UNSW-Sydney)

Publications

Book and Book Chapter: Beheshti et al. , "Process Analytics: Concepts and techniques for querying and analysing big process data", ISBN 978-3-319-25037-3, Springer, 2016. Beheshti et al. , "Service Research and Innovation, LNBIP 234, Springer, 2018. Beheshti et al. , "Business Process Data Analysis", Springer, 2016. Beheshti et al. , "Model-Based Business Process Query Techniques and Languages", Springer, 2016. Beheshti et al. , "Business Process Paradigms ", Springer, 2016. Beheshti et al. , "Process Matching Techniques", Springer, 2016. Rajabi et al., "Interlinking Big Data and Web of Data". Big Data Optimization, Springer, 2015. Beheshti, "Organizing, Querying, and Analyzing Ad-hoc Processes' Data", PhD thesis, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2012.

Journal:

• Beheshti et al., "DataSynapse: A Social Data Curation Foundry". Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) Journal, 2018 (ERA Rank: A)
• Beheshti et al., "ProcessAtlas: A Scalable and Extensible Platform for Business Process Analytics". Software Practice And Experience Journal, 2018 (ERA Rank: A)
• Beheshti et al., "A Systematic Review and Comparative Analysis of Cross-Document Coreference Resolution Methods and Tools", Computing Journal, 99(4), 313-349, 2017 (ERA Rank: A)
• Beheshti et al., "Scalable Graph-based OLAP Analytics over Process Execution Data", Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD) Journal, 34(3), 379-423, 2016 (ERA Rank: A).
• Hammoud et al., "DREAM: Distributed RDF Engine with Adaptive Query Planner and Minimal Communication". PVLDB 8(6): 654-665, 2015, (ERA Rank: A*).
• Batarfi et al., "Large Scale Graph Processing Systems: Survey and An Experimental Evaluation", Cluster Computing Journal, DOI: 10.1007/s10586-015-0472-6, 2015.
• Allahbakhsh et al., "Representation and Querying of Unfair Evaluations in Social Rating Systems", Computers and Security 41: 68-88, 2014. (ERA Rank: B)

Conference:

• Beheshti et al., "CoreKG: a Knowledge Lake Service", 44th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Rio, Brazil, 2018. (ERA Rank: A*)
• Ghafari et al., "Social Context-Aware Trust Prediction: Methods for Identifying Fake News", 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), Dubai, UAE 2018. (ERA Rank: A)
• Beheshti et al., "iProcess: Enabling IoT Platforms in Data-Driven Knowledge-Intensive Processes", 16th conference on Business Process Management (BPM), Sydney, Australia, 2018 (ERA Rank: A)
• Beheshti et al., "CrowdCorrect: A Curation Pipeline for Social Data Cleansing and Curation", 30th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), Estonia, 2018. (ERA Rank: A)
• Schiliro et al., "iCOP: IoT-enabled Policing Processes", The 16th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), HangZhou, China, 2018. (ERA Rank: A)
• Amouzegar et al., " iSheets: A Spreadsheet-based Machine Learning Development Platform for Data-driven Process Analytics", The 16th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), HangZhou, China, 2018. (ERA Rank: A)
• Ghafari et al., "SetTRUST: Social Exchange Theory Based Context-Aware Trust Prediction In Online Social Networks", 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) - QUAT  Workshop, Dubai, UAE 2018. (ERA Rank: A)
• Yakhchi et al.,"PCN: A Personality-Aware Cross-Network Recommendations", 19th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE) - QUAT  Workshop, Dubai, UAE 2018. (ERA Rank: A)
• Tabebordbar et al., "Adaptive Rule Monitoring System", 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-SE4COG), Sweden, 2018. (ERA Rank: A) *Best Paper Award*
• Rastan et al., "TEXUS: Table Extraction System for PDF Documents", Australasian Database Conference (ADC), Gold Coast, Australia, 2018.
• Beheshti et al., "CoreDB: a Data Lake Service", 26th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Singapore, 2017. (ERA Rank: A)
• Salama et al., "Multi-Level Privacy-Preserving Access Control as a Service for Ambient Assisted Living", 24th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Hawaii, USA, 2017. (ERA Rank: A)
• Beheshti et al., "On Automating Basic Data Curation Tasks", 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), Perth, Australia, 2017. (ERA Rank: A)
• Beheshti et al., "Galaxy: A Platform for Explorative Analysis of Open Data Sources", 19th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Bordeaux, France, 2016. (ERA Rank: A)
• Sun et al.,"Scalable SaaS-based Process Customization with Case Walls", 13th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), India, 2015. (ERA Rank: A).
• Maamar et al., "A Framework of Enriching Business Processes Life-Cycle with Tagging Information", Australasian Database Conference (ADC), Melbourne, Australia, 2015.
• Salih et al., "A Preliminary Approach to Domain-based Evaluation of Users' Trustworthiness in Online Social Networks," IEEE-BigData'15, New York, USA, 2015.
• Salih et al., "Towards A Methodology for Social Business Intelligence in the era of Big Social Data incorporating Trust and Semantic Analysis," Springer DaEng'15, Indonesia, 2015.
• Barnawi et al., "On Characterizing the Performance of Distributed Graph Computation Platforms". Proceedings of the 6th TPC Technology Conference on Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking (TPCTC 2014), China.
• Beheshti et al., "Enabling the Analysis of Cross-Cutting Aspects in Ad-hoc Processes", 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'13), June 17-21 2013, Valencia, Spain, 2013. (ERA Rank: A)
• Allahbakhsh et al., "Collusion Detection in Online Rating Systems", The 15th International Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb'13), Sydney, Australia, April, 2013.
• Beheshti et al., "A Framework and a Language for On-Line Analytical Processing on Graphs", 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE'12), pages 213-227, Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012. (ERA Rank: A).
• Beheshti et al., "FPSPARQL: A Graph Query Engine as a Service", Second Australasian Symposium on Service Research and Innovation (ASSRI'12), Sydney, Australia, November, 2012.
• Allahbakhsh et al., "Reputation management in crowdsourcing systems". 8th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom'12): 664-671, 2012.
• Beheshti et al., "A query language for analyzing business processes execution". 9th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM'11), pages 281-297. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2011, Clermont-Ferrand, France. (ERA Rank: A).

Open Source Projects:

• Beheshti et al., CoreKG: a Knowledge Lake Service, (VLDB'18) https://github.com/unsw-cse-soc/CoreKG
• Beheshti et al., CoreDB: a Data Lake Service, (CIKM'17) https://github.com/unsw-cse-soc/CoreDB
• Beheshti et al., Data Curation APIs, (WWW'17) https://github.com/unsw-cse-soc/Data-curation-API

Technical Report:

• Beheshti et al., "Data Curation APIs". CoRR abs/1612.03277 (2016)
• Beheshti et al., "Big Data and Cross-Document Coreference Resolution: Current State and Future Opportunities". CoRR abs/1311.3987 (2013)
• Beheshti et al., "Temporal Provenance Model (TPM): Model and Query Language". CoRR abs/1211.5009 (2012).
• Beheshti et al., "Extending SPARQL to Support Entity Grouping and Path Queries". CoRR abs/1211.5817 (2012).
• More Technical Reports, visit: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~reports/

Teaching

• Big Data, MQ Sydney
• Big Data Technologies, MQ Sydney
• Applications of Data Science, MQ Sydney
• Information Technology Project, MQ Sydney
• Web Application Engineering, UNSW Sydney
• Service Oriented Architecture, UNSW Sydney
• e-Enterprise Project, UNSW Sydney

Professional Academic Activities

• Keynote and Tutorial
  • Tutorial: "From Data Lakes to Knowledge Lakes: The Age of Big Data Analytics"
    Web Information System Engineering (WISE) Conference [ERA Rank A], Dubai UAE, 2018.
  • Keynote: "Blockchain and the Future of our Economy"
    Blockchain Hackathon, Sydney, Australia, 2018.
  • Keynote: "Knowledge Lakes in the Age of Big Data"
    Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit, Sydney, Australia 2018.
  • Keynote: "Big Data and the Future of Our Kids"
    Big Data Hackathon, , Sydney, Australia, 2018.
• Organizing Committee Member
  • Sponsorship Chair, Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW), 2019 (LINK)
  • General Chair, Eight Australasian Symposium on Service Research and Innovation (ASSRI), 2018 (LINK)
  • Organizer, Big Data Society Blockchain Hackathon and Workshop, 2018 (LINK)
  • Organizer, Big Data Society BigData Hackathon and Workshop, 2018 (LINK)
  • Organization and Web Chair, Business Process Management (BPM) Conference, 2018 (LINK)
  • Program Chair, Seventh Australasian Symposium on Service Research and Innovation (ASSRI), 2017 (LINK)
  • Publicity Chair, Business Process Management (BPM) Conference, 2015 (LINK)
• Program Committee Member
  • Business Process Management Conference (BPM); since 2015
  • IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC); since 2015
  • International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology (BUSTECH); since 2012
  • International ACM Conference on MEDES - Big Data Processing and Management Track, 2014
  • International Conference on Advances in Cloud Computing (ACC), 2012
• Book Reviews
  • Morgan&Claypool
• Journal Reviews
  • Information Systems, Elsevier
  • Computing, Springer
  • ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing, elsevier
  • Computer Standards & Interfaces, elsevier
  • Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE
  • Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE
  • Cluster Computing, Springer
  • Journal of Data Semantics, Springer
  • Concurrency and Computation - Practice and Experience - Wiley
  • Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), ACM
• Conference Reviews
  • Conference Reviews: BPM, WWW, CAiSE, ICSOC, DASFAA, ER, ICWS, EDOC, ICWE, CloudCom, ADC, etc.

Certificates

Techical Experience

• Cloud computing: MapReduce, Google App Engine, Amazon EC2
• Languages: C#, Java, C/C++, VB.NET
• Browser Scripting: JavaScript, HTML DOM, DHTML, VBScript, AJAX, jQuery, JSON
• Server Scripting: SQL, ASP, ADO, PHP, JSP
• NLP tools and techniques, e.g., OpenNLP, Stanford NLP, and Lingpipe.
• Services:
  • Protocols: HTTP, SOAP, Web Services
  • Service Description: WSDL, BPEL
  • Security: XML Encryption, XML Signature
• XML technology: XML, DTD, XML DOM, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, Schema, SVG
• Semantic Web: RDF, OWL, SPARQL
• Mark-up languages: XML, XSL, HTML, CSS
• Design techniques: UML, OO design, Web services
• Programming tools: Google Web Toolkit, ANT, Make, CVS, SVN
• Programming IDE: Eclipse, Visual Studio
• Databases: DB2, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL

Contact

• email: amin.beheshti@mq.edu.au
• phone: +61 (2) 9850 6344
• fax: +61 (2) 9850 9551
• Address: Data Analytics Research Group, Departmnt of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia