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Faculty Member

Dr. Mohammad Shekaramiz

Email: [email protected]
Office: CS-425E
Mail Stop: 102
Curriculum Vitae: Mohammad Shekaramiz CV

Biography

Dr. Shekaramiz earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Utah State University (USU) in 2018. His dissertation title was "Sparse Signal Recovery Based on Compressive Sensing & Exploration Using Multiple Mobile Sensors," (fully supported by a NASA grant). Prior to joining UVU, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Information Dynamics Lab of USU, where he conducted research on developing array processing algorithms to be used in a novel active noise cancellation setting. He has served on the Editorial Board of four Journals and has served as a reviewer for several journals and conferences such as IEEE Trans. Signal Processing and IEEE Trans. Aerospace & Electronic Systems. He is a member of IEEE, Golden Key International Honor Society, Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and Honor Society of Tau Beta Pi. He is currently a Senior IEEE member.

Dr. Shekaramiz is heavily involved in applied research projects. He believes the students will learn more when they work on real-world projects, simplified to match the course level. He also believes that the instructor should keep showing the students the big picture of why they are learning the course materials and where they can apply them. He has secured a grant of $979K as a PI from USHE-Deep Technology Talent Initiative. This project is on developing a fully automated system for wind turbine inspection using artificial intelligence and commercial drones.

AWARDS:

- “2023-2024 CET Scholarship Excellence Award,” CET, UVU, Mar. 2024.

- “2022-2023 Faculty Senate Faculty Excellence Award” for excellence in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service, Mar. 2023.

- “UVU Engineering Spot Award” for outstanding contributions to UVU's mission through demonstrated excellence in Service for RTP Task Force, Apr. 2023.

- “UVU Engineering Spot Award” for outstanding contributions to UVU's mission through demonstrated excellence in Scholarship and Service, Sept. 2022.

- Finalist of “2019 Bill E. Robins Award, USU Doctoral Student Researcher of the Year,” Utah State University, Apr. 13, 2019.

- “2019 Outstanding Doctoral Student Researcher of the Year” by the College of Engineering on Apr. 12, 2019, and by the Office of Research & Graduate Studies on Apr. 10, 2019, Utah State University.

- “2018-2019 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant” by the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, Utah State University, Feb. 22, 2019.

- “Dissertation Fellowship Award” provided by the School of Graduate Studies of Utah State University for $5,000, May 7, 2018.

- “Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation (Engineering Discipline),” Students Research Symposium (SRS), Utah State University, Apr. 13, 2017.

Education

Ph D, Utah State University, 2018

Major: Electrical Engineering-Statistical Signal Processing

MS, Isfahan University of Technology, 2007

Major: Electrical Engineering - Controls

BS, Yazd University, 2004

Major: Electrical Engineering - Electronics

Teaching

ECE 3710

Applied Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, Summer 2024

ECE 4750

Digital Signal Processing, Spring 2024

ECE 4850

Machine Learning, Spring 2024

ECE 3770

Signals and Systems, Spring 2024

Presentations

Nelson, Jared R. (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Authorship Verification via Linear Correlation Methods of n-gram and Syntax Metrics", IEEE, UVU, Orem, UT. (May, 2022)

Pinney, Branden (Presenter & Author), Duncan, Shayne (Presenter & Author), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Drone Path Planning and Object Detection via QR Codes; A Surrogate Case Study for Wind Turbine Inspection", IEEE, UVU, Orem, UT. (May, 2022)

Seibi, Cherif (Presenter & Author), Ward, Zachary (Presenter & Author), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Locating and Extracting Wind Turbine Blade Cracks Using Haar-like Features and Clustering", IEEE, UVU, Orem, UT. (May, 2022)

Anatska, Kateryna (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Offline Signature Verification_ A Study on Total Variation versus CNN", IEEE, UVU, Orem, UT. (May, 2022)

Seegmiller, Colton (Presenter & Author), N’diaye, Lallé M. (Presenter & Author), Phillips, Austin (Presenter & Author), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Residual and Wavelet based Neural Network for the Fault Detection of Wind Turbine Blades", IEEE, UVU, Orem, UT. (May, 2022)

Seegmiller, Colton (Presenter & Author), Chamberlain, Blake (Presenter & Author), Miller, Jordan (Author Only), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Wind Turbine Fault Classification Using Support Vector Machines with Fuzzy Logic", IEEE, UVU, Orem, UT. (May, 2022)

Awards

2nd Runner Up Best Engineering Paper Award

4th Annual Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference - May 14, 2024

Paper Title_ Image Classification of Forest Fire Using Machine and Deep Learning
Authors: Mason Davis (UVU ECE Student) and Mohammad Shekaramiz

Conference: 4th Annual Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing (IETC), Logan, UT, May 13-14, 2024

Best Engineering Paper Award

4th Annual Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference - May 14, 2024

Paper Title_ Velocity-Based Wind Turbine Blade Deblurring Using Richardson-Lucy Algorithm
Authors: Bridger K. Altice (USU ECE Master Student), Todd K. Moon, and Mohammad Shekaramiz

Conference: 4th Annual Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing (IETC), Logan, UT, May 13-14, 2024

2023-2024 CET Scholarship Excellence Award

College of Engineering and Technology, Utah Valley University - March, 2024

This award is for demonstrating excellence in Scholarship activities at the College level.

Engineering Spot Award

Engineering Department, Utah Valley University - April, 2023

For outstanding contributions to UVU's mission through demonstrated excellence in Service for RTP Task Force

2022-2023 Faculty Senate Faculty Excellence Award

Utah Valley University - March, 2023

Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship, and Service

Engineering Spot Award

Finalist of “2019 Bill E. Robins Award, USU Doctoral Student Researcher of the Year"

Utah State University - April 13, 2019

- I was selected as one of the 8 finalists of Bill E. Robins award in the category of "DOCTORAL STUDENT RESEARCHER of the year", 2019

The Bill E. Robins Memorial Award has been awarded to the highest achieving student regardless of gender since 1960. The purpose of the award is to recognize students that excel academically, have displayed outstanding leadership and dedication to Utah State, and possess traits that set them apart as a rare individual. In an effort to be more inclusive and accessible, the student nomination and selection process for the Bill E. Robins award is being changed to a single year award, and an individual student is only eligible to receive the award once.

2019 Outstanding Doctoral Student Researcher of the Year

College of Engineering, Utah State University - April 12, 2019

Link: https://research.usu.edu/awards/doctoral-researcher/past-recipients

- Awarded “2019 Outstanding Doctoral Student Researcher of the Year” by the College of Engineering on Apr. 12, 2019 and by the Office of Research & Graduate Studies on Apr. 10, 2019, Utah State University

Each college on campus selects and recognizes graduate researchers from their respective colleges. These researchers’ names are then forwarded to the Office of Research, where they are considered for the University Doctoral Student Researcher of the Year Award at the annual Robins Awards held in the spring.

2018-2019 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant

ECE Department, Utah State University - February 22, 2019

Awarded “2018-2019 Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant” by the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, Utah State University, Feb. 22, 2019.

Dissertation Fellowship Award

Utah State University - May 3, 2018

_{Winner of “Dissertation Fellowship Award” provided by the School of Graduate Studies of Utah State University in the amount of $5,000}

Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation (Engineering Discipline)

Utah State University - April 13, 2017

“Outstanding Graduate Poster Presentation (Engineering Discipline)”, Students Research Symposium (SRS), Utah State University, Apr. 13, 2017.
Link:
https://research.usu.edu/srs/winners

Jensen, Linda (Presenter & Author), Zimmermann, Mike (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 1st Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2020), "A New Algorithm and Review on the Existing Machine Learning Algorithms on the Handwritten Digits Recognition Problem", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Bowns, Andrew (Presenter & Author), Ellsworth, Jason (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 1st Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2020), "Handwritten Signature Verification Using Machine Learning Techniques", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Phillips, Austin (Presenter & Author), N’diaye, Lalle (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Application of ResNet and Wavelet for Online Fault Diagnosis of Wind Turbine Blades", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Anatska, Kateryna (Presenter & Author), Ferguson, Alexander (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Deep Learning Based Approach to Detect Crack/Anomaly on Wind Turbine Blades Using RGB Camera", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Pinney, Branden (Presenter & Author), Duncan, Shayne (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Drone Path-Planning and Object Detection_ A Surrogate Case Study", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Myers, Derek (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Fire Detection Using Support Vector Machines", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Jepsen, Quintin (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Foreground Detection and Removal from Video", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Miller, Jordan (Presenter & Author), Seegmiller, Colton (Presenter & Author), Chamberlin, Blake (Presenter & Author), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Fuzzy Classification of Wind Turbine Faults Using Support Vector Machines", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Ward , Zachary (Presenter & Author), Seibi, Cherif (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Identifying and Extracting Wind Turbine Blade Cracks Using VGG19 and Clustering", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Collyer, Cameron (Author Only), Barfuss, Brennen (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Object Detection_ Arduino Ultrasonic Detection and Ranging System", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Duncan, Shayne (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Offline Signature Verification Using Support Vector Machines", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Eyre, Colby (Author Only), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Stock Prediction Using Support Vector Machine_ The Case of TSLA", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Chamberlin, Blake (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Support Vector Machines for Identification of Wind Turbine Blade Faults", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Nelson, Jared R. (Presenter & Author), Anselmo, Kolton (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), Masoum, Mohammad A.S. (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "Thermal Imaging and Deep Learning for Wind Turbine Blade Inspection", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Dalsing, Hunter (Presenter & Author), Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC 2022), "User Recognizer Drone_ Face Recognition Using Support Vector Machines", , IEEE, Orem, UT. (May 14, 2022)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 2nd Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (IETC 2022), "Sparse Bayesian Learning Via Variational Bayes Fused With Orthogonal Matching Pursuit", , IEEE, UVU, Utah Valley University, Orem ,UT. (May 13, 2022)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad , 1st Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (IETC 2020), "Building Graphs with Maximum Connectivity", , IEEE, Utah Valley University, Virtual. (October 2, 2020)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), Array, Array , 1st Intermountain Engineering, Technology, and Computing Conference (IETC 2020), "Compressive Sensing via Variational Bayesian Inference", , IEEE, UVU, Virtual. (October 2, 2020)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad , American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), "Placement of UAV-Mounted Mobile Base Station through User Load-Feature K-means Clustering", . (July 15, 2020)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad , American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Scitech, "Adaptive Retransmission Time Out in Flying Ad-Hoc Network by LSTM Machine Learning_ Round Trip Time Prediction", , FL. (January 6, 2020)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad , American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Scitech, "Comparison of Leader and Tail Switching with Full Shuffle in Swarming V-Shaped Drones_ Efficiency and Sensitivity Analysis", , FL. (January 6, 2020)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 53th Asilomar Conf. on Sig., Syst., and Compt. (ACSSC), IEEE, "Exploration versus Data Refinement via Multiple Mobile Sensors Based on Epistemic Utility Controller", , IEEE, Pacific Grove, Cal.. (November, 2019)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad , 53th Asilomar Conf. on Sig., Syst., and Compt. (ACSSC), IEEE, "C-SBL(VB): A Variational Bayes Algorithm for Sparse Recovery of Signals with Unknown Clustering Pattern", , IEEE, Cal., USA. (November 1, 2019)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 52th Asilomar Conf. on Sig., Syst., and Compt. (ACSSC), "Sparse Recovery via Variational Bayesian Inference_ Comparing Bernoullis- Gaussians-Inverse Gamma and Gaussians-Inverse Gammas Modeling", , IEEE, Pacific Grove, Cal.. (October, 2018)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Author Only), Array, Array , Student Research Symposium (SRS), "A New Adaptive Decision Maker Framework for the Exploration in an Unknown Region Using Multiple Mobile Sensors", , Utah State University, Logan, UT. (April 12, 2018)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 51th Asilomar Conf. on Sig., Syst., and Compt. (ACSSC), "Exploration and Data Refinement via Multiple Mobile Sensors Based on Gaussian Processes", , IEEE, Pacific Grove, Cal.. (November, 2017)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 51th Asilomar Conf. on Sig., Syst., and Compt. (ACSSC), "Sparse Bayesian Learning Using Variational Bayes Inference Based on a Greedy Criterion", , IEEE, Pacific Grove, Cal.. (November, 2017)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad , 50th Asilomar Conf. on Sig., Syst., and Compt. (ACSSC), "Sparse Bayesian Learning Boosted by Partial Erroneous Support Knowledge", , IEEE, Pacific Grove, Cal.. (November, 2016)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad , IEEE 7th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication (UEMCON), "AMP-B-SBL: An Algorithm for Clustered Sparse Signals Using Approximate Message Passing", , IEEE, NY. (October, 2016)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad , 49th Asilomar Conf. on Sig., Syst., and Compt. (ACSSC), "On the Block-Sparse Solution of Single Measurement Vectors", , IEEE, Pacific Grove, Cal.. (November, 2015)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 2015 IEEE Signal Processing and Signal Processing Education Workshop (SP/SPE), "On the Block-Sparsity of Multiple-Measurement Vectors", , IEEE, Snow Bird, UT. (August, 2015)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 2014 48th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, "Hierarchical Bayesian approach for jointly-sparse solution of multiple-measurement vectors", , IEEE, Pacific Grove, Cal.. (November, 2014)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), "On the stability of continuous-time T-S model", , IEEE, Shanghai, China. (July, 2011)

Shekaramiz, Mohammad (Presenter & Author), 8th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD), "Stability Criterion for Takagi-Sugeno Models", , IEEE, Shanghai, China. (July, 2011)