About Me

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI), Indianapolis, Indiana, United States under the supervision of Dr. Hyeju Jang. Also, I obtained my M.Sc. in Software Engineering major under the supervision of Dr. Alireza Rezvanian in December 2023 at the University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran.

Research interests:

Medical and HCI applications of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, NLP

Awards & Honors

• Ranked 1st in the master's among 28 students of Software Engineering major with a 4/ 4 GPA at the University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran.

  2023
• Outstanding Student Researcher Awarded National Medal among the students of the University of Science and Culture.

  2023-4
• Honorary Diploma from the Symposium of Frontiers in Computer and Data Sciences, hosted by Khatam University, Tehran, Iran.

  2023
• ISO 9001 in quality for manufacturing of Solid, Semi Tubular Rivet and Electric Contact Rivet as the product manager of Electro Sadra Company, Tehran, Iran.

  2022

Education

• Indiana University Indianapolis, IN, US
  PhD, Computer Science

  2024-...
• University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
  M.Sc., Software Engineering
  Thesis: Real-time emotion recognition using EfficientNetV2
  GPA: 4/ 4 (18.83 out of 20). Ranked 1st among 28 students

  2019-2023
• Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
  B.Sc., Information Technology Engineering

  2013-2019

Publication Records

• (Submitted) Omid Ghadami, Alireza Rezvanian, Saeed Shakuri, and Mohammad Hojjat, ”Real-time facial emotion recognition in smartphones using EfficientNetV2 and quantization-aware training.”, Multimedia Tools and Application, Springer
• Omid Ghadami, Alireza Rezvanian, and Saeed Shakuri, ”Scalable real-time emotion recognition using EfficientNetV2 and resolution scaling.” In 2024 10th International Conference on Web Research (ICWR), IEEE, April 2024 (IJWR)
• Omid Ghadami, Alireza Rezvanian, “A Scalable Method for Real-Time Facial Emotion Recognition Using a Polynomial Equation”, International Journal of Web Research (IJWR), October 2024
• Mohammad Hojjat, Mohammad Javad Shayegan, and Omid Ghadami, ”Low-Dose CT Image Denoising based on EfficientNetV2 and Wasserstein GAN” In 2024 10th International Conference on Web Research (ICWR), IEEE, April 2024

Selective Projects

• Emotion recognition using CNNs on CK+, FER2013, and KDEF datasets
  Further research on the facial emotion recognition using different Deep Learning methods, Quantization-Aware Training (QAT), and Post-Training Quantization (PTQ). A part of this research is in this link.

  2022-2023
• Transport Mode Detection
  A comprehensive research on the GeoLife and SHL datasets, including loading data, visualizing, outlier detection, etc. A short part of this research is in this link.

  2022
• Plant disease detection via leaf images on PlantVillage dataset using EfficientNetV2-B0
  Plant disease detection using pre-trained weights of EfficientNetV2-B0 this implementation is in this link.

  2020

Selective Research, Presentation, and Teaching Experiences

• Research Assistant, Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI), Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
  Research Assistant of Dr. Hyeju Jang.

  Spring 2024
• Teaching Assistant, Indiana University Indianapolis (IUI), Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
  Teaching assistant of the Graduate Computer Vision Course.

  Fall 2024
• Presenter | International Conference on Web Research (ICWR 2024), Tehran, Iran
  Presenter of the ''Scalable real-time emotion recognition using EfficientNetV2 and resolution scaling'' paper.

  April 2024
• Presenter | International Conference on Web Research (ICWR 2024), Tehran, Iran
  Delivered a technical tutorial on deploying lightweight deep learning models for real-time facial emotion recognition on smartphones, showcasing optimized frameworks for low-latency inference (<40ms) and mobile-optimized architectures (EfficientNetV2, TensorFlow Lite).

  April 2024
• Presenter | Frontiers in Computer and Data Science held by Khatam University & TeIAS, Tehran, Iran
  Presenter of ''Low-latency sentiment recognition on smartphones using CNNs and INT8 QAT'' which is a one-page paper.

  April 2024
• Article Reviewer
  Article Reviewer of Wiley for one journal paper.

  March 2024
• Product Manager of Electro Sadra Company, Tehran, Iran
  Product manager of Electro Sadra Company for over 6 years and achieving ISO 9001:2015 in 2022 for manufacturing Solid, Tubular, and Contact Rivets.

  March 2017 - March 2023
• Teaching Assistant, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
  Teaching assistant of the Undergraduate Machine Learning course.

  Fall 2023

Certificates

• DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer Specialization

  Aug. 2022
• Natural Language Processing in TensorFlow

  Aug. 2022
• Sequences, Time Series and Prediction

  Jul. 2022
• Data Collection and Processing with Python

  Feb. 2022
• Python Functions, Files, and Dictionaries

  Feb. 2022
• Getting Started with Python

  Jan. 2022
• Python Data Structures

  Jan. 2022
• Convolutional Neural Networks in TensorFlow

  Nov. 2021
• Introduction to TensorFlow for ML and DL

  Nov. 2021