Research background and interests
Research background
M.Sc. thesis: Mineral Potential Mapping Using Artificial Neural Networks, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, 2007–2009.
Neural networks for spatial decision-making (2009–2013)
Four papers on neural networks for mineral-potential mapping, borehole siting, and fire-station site selection. One is ISI-indexed. One received a Best Student Paper award.
Routing and navigation (2008)
Two conference papers on vehicle navigation for urban services and on shortest-path finding with weighted parameters.
Questions from practice
PENDING-MATIN: Integrating data from many sources (satellite imagery, legacy maps, new surveys) into one consistent geodatabase, and keeping its quality, is a problem I met at work and would like to study properly.
PENDING-MATIN: How users of a large Web GIS search for and query data is a question I met while defining requirements for an enterprise platform, and I would like to study it with proper research methods.
PENDING-MATIN: Open, standards-based platforms versus proprietary ones is a comparison I worked through in a feasibility study, and I would like to understand it more deeply.
What she wants from a PhD
- Research methods and the habit of a careful question.
- Depth in one area, shaped with a supervisor.
- Publishing.
- Contributing to a research group's existing projects.
She would welcome the chance to develop a doctoral topic with a supervisor and to contribute to a research group's projects.