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General Information
Full Name | Masoud Masoumi |
Languages | English, Persian (Farsi) |
Experience
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2022 - present Adjunct Professor (part time)
The Cooper Union, New York, NY -
2024 - present Data Scientist
Internal Revenue Service, New York, NY -
2024 - 2024 Physical Scientist
NOAA's National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD -
2021 - 2024 Associate (part time)
Columbia University, New York, NY -
2019 - 2024 Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Manhattan College, The Bronx, NY -
2015 - 2018 Founding Engineer
Brimes Energy, Holbrook, NY -
2018 Mechanical Engineering Instructor (part time)
Duro Workforce, The Bronx, NY -
2014 - 2015 CAE Engineer Intern
Energystics LTD, Stony Brook, NY
Education
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2018 Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering
Stony Brook University, New York, USA - Focus on Design and Manufacturing
- Minor in Energy Technology
- Thesis: 'Guided Wave Simulation in Long Pipes using Hybrid Modeling'
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2012 Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Semnan University, Semnan, Iran - Thesis: 'Damage Identification in Beam-Type Structures via Modal Analysis'
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2009 Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering
Semnan University, Semnan, Iran
Selected Certificates & Trainings
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2025 Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)
- Focusing on Scrum principles and specialized agile engineering techniques. Acquired essential tools and methodologies for building high-quality products in an iterative and incremental manner within a Scrum environment.
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2024 Designing and Implementing a Microsoft Azure AI Solution
- Building AI infused applications that leverage Azure AI Services, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI.
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2024 Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure
- Implementing Python and machine learning to manage data ingestion and preparation, model training and deployment, and machine learning solution monitoring with Azure Machine Learning and MLflow.
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2024 MongoDB Essential Training
- The training covered: setting up MongoDB databases, CRUD operations in MongoDB, aggregation pipelines, data modelling, and accessing MongoDB using APIs.
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2024 Leveraging Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing
- Topics covered: text pre-processing, word embeddings, sentiment classification, Named Entity Recognition, various neural networks such as RNN, GRU, and LSTM, and advanced techniques like Attention Models and Transformers.
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2024 Components of a Big Data and AI Solution
- Courses included: The course covers: Data and the Enterprise, Storing and Querying Data, HDFS, Spark, and Kafka, NoSQL Databases, Analyzing and Interpreting Data, Neural Networks, Data Visualization
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2023 NSF I-Corps Hub Northeast Region
- Led technical aspects, conducted customer interviews, identified market opportunities, and refined the commercialization strategy for an innovative gravity-based energy storage system.
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2023 Master's Certificate in Applied Mathematics - Data Analytics
- Coursework included: Computational Methods for Analytics, Machine Learning, Probability and Statistics for Analytics, Database Methods for Analytics, Data Mining, and Computing in R.
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2020 Deep Learning Specialization
- Coursework included: Neural Networks and Deep Learning, Improving Deep Neural Networks, Structuring Machine Learning Projects, Convolutional Neural Networks, and Sequence Models.
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2019 IBM Data Science
- Coursework included: What is Data Science?, Tools for Data Science, Data Science Methodology, Python for Data Science, AI & Development, Databases and SQL for Data Science with Python, Data Analysis with Python, Data Visualization with Python, Machine Learning with Python, and Applied Data Science Capstone.
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2016-2017 Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science
- Coursework included: Distilling Your Message, Improvisation for Scientists, Writing to be Understood, and Engaging Key Audiences.
Grants
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2023 - 2024 Currents to Current: Converting River Energy to Electricity (20,000 USD)
The U.S. Department of Energy -
2023 Development of a Physics-Informed Model for a Fluid-Structure Interaction Environment: Gearing Toward a Simulation of a Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting System (3000 USD)
Manhattan College -
2022 - 2023 Piezoelectric Based River Current Energy Harvester (20,000 USD)
The U.S. Department of Energy -
2021 Wave Characteristics Prediction Using Machine Learning Algorithms (30,000 JPY)
Institute of Ocean Energy at Saga University -
2020 - 2021 Ocean Wave Energy Converter Module for Observation and Navigation Buoys (20,000 USD)
The U.S. Department of Energy