Education
2021 - Current
PhD - Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Supervisor: Dr. Charles Clarke
2017 - 2019
Masters - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ryerson University
Supervisor: Dr. Ebrahim Bagheri
2012 - 2017
Bachelor - Electrical Engineering
AmirKabir University of Technology
2009 - 2012
Farzanegan Highschool
National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET)
About Negar
My name is Negar Arabzadeh. I am a third year PhD student at the University of Waterloo under the supervision of Dr.Charles Clarke. Currently, I live in Waterloo, Canada.
I was born and raised in Iran and moved to Canada in 2017 to pursue my dreams. I enjoy doing research in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. I have a big collection of Board games, and I enjoy playing board games as well as video games. I have a cat whose name is "Chaloos".
Awards
and
Honors
2023- Honored to receive David R. Cheriton Graduate Scholarship for scholastic excellence
2022- Best Paper Award at in 44th European Conference on Information Retrieval
2022- Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) AI Week Talent Bursary
2021- Honored to receive returning offer for Microsoft Research Summer Internship
2021- Best Reviewer Award at ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
2021- Provost Doctoral Entrance Award for Women at University of Waterloo
2021- University of Waterloo Entrance Scholarship
2020- Runner-up in SOSCIP's 3 Minute Thesis Competition at Advance Ontario
2018- Ryerson Graduate Development Award
2012- Exempted from university entrance
2011- 1st place at Khwarizmi International Award at junior soccer robots
2010- Qualified and participated in 15th Robocup competition at junior soccer league
2010- 1st place at 5th International IranOpen competition at junior soccer robots league