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Autobiography
I was born in 1985 A.D. (1363 Hijri) in Tehran, IRAN. I studied in Allameh Helli Secondary School and High School, which is affiliated with NODET (سمپاد). I participated in Compuer Olympiad nationwide competitions, and at last, I managed to get into the Iranian National Team, and won a Gold medal in IOI 2002 in Korea. Thereafter, I went to Sharif University of Technology, arguably the best technical school in my home country. I studied Computer Engineering, and yet helped with the Olympiad camps. During the time, I also participated in several ACM-ICPC contests.
Status Quo
Now, I study in Princeton University, and therefore, I live in Princeton, which is a small town in Northeastern part of the US. I live in a castle which is called the Graduate College. I have some long-known friends here, that make my life possible. However, I miss my Olympiad friends very much, and the debates or discussions we had late at nights. I think it is needless to say, but just in case, I admit that I miss my home country a lot, and I'm looking forward to visiting my family and friends again!
Tribute
I always respect those who taught me something, and among those are a couple of professors, and several close friends. I specially wish to thank Dr. Mohammad Ghodsi, without whose support, I could not achieve many a thing I did. I would also like to thank Dr. Ghassem Jaberipur and Dr. Roozbeh Tusserkani, from whom have I learned a lot.
Interests
- Programming in General!
- in C++, the most powerful programming language; currently most comfortably with g++ and Emacs
- in Java, when I need a headache or something!
- in pascal, when I deserve some punishment
- in PHP, if I have enough time to debug a half-page code, thru the most relevent error messages!
- in BashScript, to show that you can do it in one line
- in ASM, in which you have to tell your computer to open his mouth while speaking.
- Computer Science
- Simple nice easy everyday algorithms
- Graph Algorithms
- Combinatorial Optimization
- Matching Theory
- Maximum Flow Problems
- Scheduling Problems
- Linear Programming
- Computational Geometry
- Randomized Algorithms
- Approximation Algorithms
- Theory of Machines and Languages, Grammars and Compilers
- Miscelaneous
- Learning Foreign Languages, dead or alive. Among them are (or were) Latin, Hebrew, French, English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Korean, ...
- Talking to friends, about educational methods, etc.
- Reading books
- Wasting Time (watching movies, etc.)
Some Programming Contests:
- International Olympiad in Informatics, IOI
- ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
- ACM Vallaolid in Spain
- ACM Timus in Russia
- USACO Contest Gateway
- The International Obfuscated C Code Contest, IOCCC nice programming style!!
- IPSC this is somehow, a new programming contest style; Of course, here, by new I mean strange.
and Some Places for Practice:
- ACM Vallaolid in Spain - more than a thousand judgable problems
- ACM Timus in Russia - about two hundred problems, but nicer ones !
- USACO Training Gateway - at first it might seem childish !
My Friends
- Siavosh Benabbas, University of Toronto.
- Mohammad Moharrami, University of Toronto.
- Mohammad Hadee Foroughmand Araabi, Sharif UT.
- Hamed Ahmadinejad, Sharif UT.
- Hamid Nazerzadeh, Stanford University
- Arash Asadpour, Stanford University
- Iman Hajirasouliha, SFU
- Morteza ZadiMoghadam, Sharif UT.
- Amin Sayedi, Sharif UT.
- Kian MirJalali, Sharif UT.
- Shayan OveisGharan, Sharif UT.
- Aideen Nassiri Shargh, Sharif UT.
- Mohammad Mahmoody Ghidary, Princeton University.
- Iman Setayesh, Princeton University.
- Hani Goodarzi, Princeton University.
- Morteza Alamgir Morteza Alamgir, Sharif UT.
- Ashkan Nikseresht, Sharif UT.
- Payam Valadkhan
- Mir Omid Haji MirSadeghi, Sharif UT.
- Armin Morabbi, Ecole Polytechnique Paris.
- Seyed Omid Etesami, UC Berkeley.
- Behdad Esfahbod, University of Toronto?
- Ali Sharifi Zarchi, Sharif UT.
- Hamid Mahini, Sharif UT.
- Mohammad Derakhshani, University of Waterloo.
- Mohammad Hossein Falaki, University of Waterloo.
- Kooshyar Azimian, Rutgers University.
- Majid Valipour, University of Toronto
- Alireza Vahdatpour, UC Los Angeles
- Iman Sadeghi, UC San Diego
- Saman Aliari Zonooz, UI Urbana Champain
- Alireza Fathi, SFU
- Majid Ghayoomi, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Hooman Hosseinpour, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
- and many others, I forgot to list here!
Useful Links & My Favorites
- News Sources
- My Favorite Books
- The Art of Computer Programming Collection, by Donald E. Knuth
- The C++ Programming Language, by Bjarne Stroustrup
- Sherlock Holmes Collection, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
You can download the full collection in HTML format, from here - Harry Potter Series, by J. K. Rowling
- Miscelaneous
- A peculiar Persian weblog on Iranian Informatics Olympiad قدیمیها راجع به المپیاد کامپیوتر میگویند
- My Favorite Soccer Club Perspolis (پرسپولیس) - Official Site
- My Favorite Foreign Soccer Club AC Milan Club - Official Site
- GNU Project, and remember that GNU is not UNIX
- FarsiTeX, the best and a free, persian typographic software, with high mathematical capabilities
- GNOME is the Free Software Desktop Project; and Pango as a good multi-language layout engine
- An Iranian company, FarsiWeb, helps with standardizing Persian Language issues in information technology, as well as maintaing an OS, called Sharif Linux. They have released a set of Persian fonts, which are claimed to be fully Unicode-compliant; they are still subtle bugs there.
- I love Linux and use it
Contact Information
Send me email to MyLastName at GMail dot COM. This is the easiest and fastest way to reach me. My Yahoo ID is mhbateni, but I rarely check stuff there. Anyway, to whichever address you send your emails, be patient for the response, if you think you should get one ever ;) If you need phone number or physical tangible address, ask me in email, or search more exhaustively.