1. Personal profile

	Name & Family:	Mahdi Jampour (Champour) - In Persian  مهدی چم پور
	Date of Birth	9th Feb 1982
	Place of Birth	Iran, Mashhad
	Status	Married (2 children)

2. Contact information

	email:	jampour [at] icg.tugraz.at
	email:	m_jampour [at] yahoo.com

3. Education & Current Position

	Current Position	Research Associate
		University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
	Postdoctoral Fellow	Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision (2016-2017)
	Research Institute	Information and Communication Technology Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
	Host Professor.	Prof. Mohammad-Shahram. Moin
	Topic	Multiview Face Analysis
	Honor	Supported by: Iranian National Elites Foundation (Bonyad Melli Nokhbegan)
	Visiting scholar:	Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision (2015-2016)
	University	University of Masschusetts Boston, MA, USA
	Topic	Face Inpainting based on High-Level Facial Attributes
	Advisor	Prof. Craig Yu
	Honor	Awarded Marshall Plan Fellowship from ambassador of USA (Ms. A. Wesner)
	PhD:	Artificial Intelligence - Computer Vision (2011-2016)
	University	Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
	Thesis Title	Multi-view Facial Expression Recognition
	Supervisor	Prof. Horst Bischof
	Honor	Awarded Iranian MSRT PhD full scholarship for financial support
	MSc:	Artificial Intelligence (2006-2009)
	University	Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
	Thesis Title	Fingerprint Recognition with Fractal Theory
	Supervisor	Prof. Mahdi Yaghoobi
	Honor	The best student researcher award in Area 9 of Iran
	BSc:	Computer Science (Software Engineering)
	University	Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran
	Project Title	Simulating of DIAG system
	Supervisor	Dr. Siavash Sheikhizadeh

4. Research interests

	Computer Vision	(Object Recognition, Object Detection, Facial Analysis, etc.)
	Biometrics	(Identification, Verification, IRIS, Fingerprint, Face, Signature)
	Deep Learning	(Deep Neural Networks, CNNs)

5. Publication

Scientific References

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6. Projects & Research works

	2021	An intelligent system for agriculture products
	2018	Multiview face analysis
	2016	Smart library by means of Pars, shelf reader robot
	2010	Energy Power Optimization using Fuzzy Expert System
	2009	Fingerprint Identification with Fractal Theory

7. Honors

	BMN	Awarded postdoctoral financial support from Iranian National Elites Foundation (Bonyad Melli Nokhbegan)
	MPS	AWARDED MARSHALL PLAN SCHOLARSHIP (the world's most prestigious academic awards for graduate students) to visit University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA. 2015
	KUWI	AWARDED KUWI (Scholarship for short time academic research) from Graz University of Technology at Austria. 2014-15
	MSRT	AWARDED MSRT SCHOLARSHIP from Iran Ministry of Science, Research and Technology. 2010
	Patent	Biometric System based on Iris Recognition (Patent no: 89/A004477). 2011
	Patent	Fingerprint Identification System (Patent no: 389090122). 2010

8. Teaching experiences

	2017-2023	Quchan University of Technology
	2018-now	Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
	2017-2018	Imam Reza International University
	2010-2011	Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman (Kerman State University)
	2007-2011	Kerman Institute of Higher Education at Kerman (Head of Department)