Elahe Paikari

[email protected] Los Angeles, California, USA

Tech Stacks
• Languages: Python, C/C++, R, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, SQL
• Technologies: Vue.js, Node.js, React.js, Angular.js, Bootstrap, Angular.js
• Other: API design, relational databases, Git, Agile.
Education
Ph.D. in Software Engineering September 2017 – May 2023
University of California, Irvine, USA – Dept. of Informatics
M.S. in Software Engineering August 2012 - August 2014
University of Calgary, AB, Canada – Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
B.S. in Software Engineering August 2008 - July 2012
Azad University, Tehran, Iran – Dept. of Computer Engineering

Software Development and Research Experience

Software Developer and Researcher – University of California, Irvine September 2017 – May 2023
• Designed and developed a video annotation tool to add drawing and text to the timeline of video.
• Designed and implemented custom web scraping tools to automatically download metadata from Google
Issue Tracker, YouTrack, and Bugzilla.
• Performed a range of statistical analyses and regression models on more than two million data from Mine-
craft, Android, Mozilla, IntelliJ, and LibreOffice, published in a major software engineering conference.
• Developed several machine learning classifiers to classify bug reports as actionable or non-actionable,
achieved the highest performance results to date, and published in a major software engineering conference.
• Designed and developed a voice-based interface to an electronic whiteboard sketching tool.
• Designed and developed an slack chatbot for early detection of potential development conflicts arising from
concurrent code changes, published in a major software engineering conference.
• Submitted a Journal in a major software engineering conference about the current state of software chatbots.
Technologies and software tools: Python, R, RStudio, VSCode, Git, Github, Statistical Analysis, Linear/Lo-
gistic Regression, Web Scraping, Scikit-Learn, NumPy, Panda, NLTK, Matplotlib, SciPy, OpenCV, Jupyter
Notebook.
AI Software Engineer – MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab May 2022 – August 2022
• Designed, developed, and unit tested a code debugger API in a multi-agent system to enable debugging of
agents’ source code at runtime, currently being used by Advanced Prototyping Team at Watson AI Lab.
• Designed, embedded, and unit tested a code editor for manipulating source code at runtime in a distributed
agent system, currently being used by Advanced Prototyping Team at Watson AI Lab, published in a major
software engineering conference.
Technologies and software tools: Python, Vue.js, VSCode, pycharm, Git.
Software Developer – Intelliview Technologies Inc. February 2015 – September 2017
• Designed, developed, and unit tested core Intelliview software components and features (video analytics
solutions for industrial surveillance applications) as a service.
• Designed, implemented, and tested web application/UI.
• Worked with QA staff and other stakeholders to resolve bugs and implement feature requests.
• Participated in and led code reviews, development processes and standards.
• Conducted research on emerging technologies and implemented prototypes and proof of concepts.
Technologies and software tools: Python, C/C++, MFC, Boost, QT, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, React,
Angular.js, Bootstrap, Web Sockets, RESTful API, PostgreSQL, Linux, Microsoft Visual Studio, Weka,
VMWare, Subversion, Scrum.
Software Developer – University of Calgary, Shell, and City of September 2014 – February 2015
Calgary
• Analyzed Calgary Road info databases in Microsoft SQL Server and developed ETL processes, to form a
data mart.
• Analyzed and designed data models via statistical and mining methods.
• Designed an online/offline safety feedback system, applying multi-agent methods and UML.
• Developed a video driven traffic system, applying image-processing techniques.
Technologies and software tools: C/C++, Pentaho, Microsoft Visual Studio, Weka, Aimsun simulator.
Software Research – University of Calgary February 2013 – August 2014
• Integrated PARAMICS traffic simulator with OPNET wireless network simulator using open-source appli-
cations to evaluate Connected Vehicle (CV) communication ranges in Wi-Fi and WLAN protocols.
• Developed ETL processes to extract output CSV files from PARAMICS, transformed the data into the XML
format, for the use of OPNET.
Technologies and software tools: C/C++, Microsoft Visual Studio, Weka, PARAMICS simulator, OPNET
simulator.
Software Developer – University of Calgary and Encom Wireless Data August 2012 – February 2013
Solutions Inc.
• Designed and analyzed a Connected Vehicle (CV) system as a multi agent system.
• Implemented APIs to develop a system model to support simulation of CV systems, leading to the simulator
being able to compete with commercial simulators.
• Addressed client’s requests and provided optimum outputs, resulted in willingness of the University to invest
in similar projects.
• Validated the developed CV system by reducing accidents and travel time index in Deerfoot trail, Calgary,
Alberta; recommendations and assessment results are currently being used by the client to implement CV
systems in Calgary and having the potential to be applied in other cities of Canada.
Technologies and software tools: C/C++, Microsoft Visual Studio, Weka.
Grant May 2016 – April 2018
Alberta Innovates (AITF) – Industry Research and Development Associate program for amount of 110k.
Volunteer
Mentor – University of California, Irvine June 2019 - December 2020
• Led a team of 5 and a team of 7 software engineering undergrad students in designing and implementing
software chatbots.
Judge – University of California, Irvine May 2021 - May 2021
• Determined winners of the VenusHacks hackathon (UC Irvine's first women-centric hackathon) by reviewing
projects ranging from web development to machine learning.
University of Calgary – Calgary, Canada January 2013 - December 2013
• Diversity counselor – Center of International Students and Study Abroad