Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Candidate in Social and Cultural Analysis (Sociology)
  Concordia University (2020-Present)
  Co-supervisors: Drs. Matthew Unger and Marie-Pier Joly (Concordia University)
  Committee Member: Dr. Alexis Dennis (McGill University)

• M.A. in Anthropology
  University of Tehran, Iran (2018)

• B.S. in Industrial Engineering
  Isfahan University of Technology, Iran (2015)

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• Doctoral Researcher, CRDCN Emerging Scholar, Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) (2024-Present)
  Using Statistics Canada data to analyze disparities in mental health outcomes among youth in Canada.
• Doctoral Researcher, Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS) (2024-Present)
  Studying disparities in mental health outcomes among youth in Canada as part of my Ph.D. dissertation.
• Doctoral Fellow, Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3), McGill University (2024-2025)
  One-year training fellowship in population analytics.
• Research Assistant, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University (2022-Present)
  Research assistant to Professor Matthew Unger in two SSHRC and FRQSC projects on law, criminalization, and Indigenous communities in Canada.
• Research Assistant, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University (2022-2023)
  Research assistant to Professor Marie-Pier Joly in a project on employment, underemployment, and the mental health of immigrants in Canada.
• Research Assistant, Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Concordia University (Jun-Sep 2023)
  Research assistant to Professor Tristan Glatard, Canada Research Chair on Big Data for Neuroinformatics and the co-director of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute in a project on gender equity in AI.
  Available at: Affecting Machines
• Contributing Author, All Tech is Human, Responsible Artificial Intelligence Working Group (2023)
  Contributed to the writing of the Responsible AI Section of the 2023 Responsible Tech Guide. Available at: Responsible Tech Guide.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• LECTURER, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University
  • SOCI 212, Statistics I, Winter 2025

  - Designed a course in social statistics by incorporating experiential learning to provide students with more opportunities to work with real-world data on topics such as income inequality, food insecurity, housing, disparities in health outcomes, etc.

• TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia University

  - Provided office hours, led tutorials, and directed lab sessions.

  • SOCI 212–B, Statistics I, Fall 2024
  • SOCI 213–B, Statistics II, Winter 2024
  • SOCI 213–CC, Statistics II, Winter 2024
  • SOCI 213–AA, Statistics II, Fall 2023
  • SOCI 310, Research Methods, Winter 2022
  • SOCI 300, Classical Social Theory, Winter 2025, Fall 2024
  • SOCI 300, Classical Social Theory, Winter 2023, Fall 2022
  • SOCI 300, Classical Social Theory, Winter 2022, Fall 2021

• TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University

  • AHSC 380: Quantitative Research Methods for Practitioners, Winter 2022

• TUTOR, Self-Employed, Tehran, Iran, 2016-2020

  • Taught Social Statistics and Quantitative Research Methods to undergraduate and graduate social science students.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• ODISSEI Conference of Computational Social Science, Utrecht, The Netherlands (2024)
  Machine Learning Approaches for Exploring the Social Determinants of Mental Health in Canada (Absent due to visa delays).

• Canada’s Social Prescribing Conference - Advancing Social Prescribing for Health & Wellbeing, Toronto, Canada (2024)
  Towards Mental Health Equity through Community Building: Social Prescribing as an Emerging Determinant of Mental Health in Canada.

TALKS

• Affecting Machines: Normative Principles for Gender Equity in Artificial Intelligence, Fourth Space, Concordia University (2023)
  See the recorded workshop at: Affecting Machines.

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS

• Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) Emerging Scholars Grant, Ph.D., 2024.
  • Awarded by CRDCN, Funded by the CFI, CHIRR, SSHRC, Statistics Canada.
• Quebec Inter-University Center for Social Statistics (QICSS) Entrance Scholarship, Ph.D., 2024.
• Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQSC) Doctoral Scholarship, 2024-2026.
  • Ranked first in Sociology and Demography.
• Consortium on Analytics for Data-Driven Decision-Making (CAnD3) Fellowship, McGill University, 2024-2025.
  • First Concordia student to be awarded the CAnD3 fellowship.
• Dialogue McGill’s Graduate Research Scholarship, 2023-2024.
  • Awarded by Dialogue McGill, funded by Health Canada.
• Concordia University Conference Travel Award, 2024.
• Concordia University Merit Scholarship, Concordia University, 2023.
• Concordia University Graduate Fellowship, Ph.D., 2020-2024.
• Concordia University International Tuition Award of Excellence, Ph.D., 2020-2024.

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

• Canadian Sociological Association
• American Sociological Association
• Canadian Public Health Association
• Canadian Population Society
• American Statistical Association
• American College Health Association
• Women’s Health Research Cluster

SKILLS

• Survey Data Analysis
  
• Statistical Modeling
  
• Machine Learning
  
• Data Visualization
  
• Mathematical Writing
  
• Reproducible Research
  

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES & SOFTWARE

CERTIFICATES

• Canadian Statistics and Microdata for the Social Sciences, issued by Concordia University, 2023
• Gender-Based Analysis Plus, issued by Government of Canada, 2024
• Gender and Health: Awareness, Analysis, and Action, issued by Pan American Health Organization, 2024
• Health Inequality Monitoring Foundations: Data Sources, issued by World Health Organization, 2023
• Health Inequality Monitoring Foundations: Health Data Disaggregation, issued by World Health Organization, 2023
• Inequality Analysis using R: Disaggregated Data from Surveys, issued by World Health Organization, 2023
• Research Ethics based on the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS 2: CORE 2022), issued by Government of Canada, 2024