Samad Ahmadi
Employment
Principla Lecturer(current), School of Computing, De Montfort University, UK
Postdoctoral Research Fellow(2001-2003), ASAP, School of Computer Science and IT, University of Nottingham, UK
Assistant Professor(1998-2001), Department of Mathematics, University of Alzahra, Tehran, Iran (more…)
Education
BSc (Iran), MSc (Sharif University of Technology, Iran), PhD (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
Research
My current research interests include: Applications of artificial intelligence in optimisation, Serious games and virtual worlds, University Timetabling, Clustering and Location problems, theoretical aspects of optimisation, Meta-heuristics, web log Mining
Academic Activities
- Founding chair of the IEEE consumer electronics Games Innovation conference
- Director of Games Innovation Lab (GIL) in the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) of De Montfort University
- Associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
- Member of editorial board of Journal of Memetic Computing,
- Member of steering committee for IEEE transaction on Computational intelligence and AI for games,
- Member of the steering committee of the IEEE transaction on Autonomous Mental Development
- Representative of of IEEE CE society in AI for games
- Member of Industry & Academia IT Think Tank for Microsoft UK Council 2007