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About

I'm Ardavan Khalij. I hold an M.Sc. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from the University of Kashan. My research sits at the intersection of AI, Computational Creativity, and Music Informatics.

My master's thesis explored modelling, analysis, and generation of Iranian traditional music using computational creativity and machine learning (supervisors: Prof. Dr. Geraint Wiggins and Dr. Nicholas Harley). I am currently developing multiple papers based on this work; one has been presented at the International Conference on Computational & Cognitive Musicology.

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Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Deep Learning Computational Creativity Music Informatics Reinforcement Learning Natural Language Processing

Education

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) — Master of Science

Computer Science – Artificial Intelligence

  • GPA: 3.35/4.00 (WES) – Passed with Distinction
  • Last semester GPA: 3.87/4.00 (WES)
  • Thesis: Extending CHARM Framework for Statistical Modeling of Iranian Music — Grade: A
  • Supervisors: Dr. Geraint Wiggins, Dr. Nicholas Harley
  • Diploma & Transcript: Download
Sep 2021 – Jul 2023

University of Kashan — Bachelor of Science

Computer Engineering

  • GPA: 3.78/4.00 (WES); Last two years: 3.87/4.00 (WES)
  • Thesis: Examining the Michigan Method to Classify Medical Data — Grade: A (View)
  • Supervisor: Dr. Mehdi Vahidipour
  • Diploma & Transcript: Download
Sep 2017 – Jun 2021

Selected Courses (grades)

Reinforcement Learning — A Current Trends in AI — A Computational Creativity — A Data Mining — A Principles of Computational Intelligence — A Algorithms Design — A Information Theory — B Game Theory — B Operating Systems Lab — A

Publications

Computational Creativity: Generating melodies with unlimited length based on a new way of thinking

Ardavan Khalij, Nicholas Harley — GECCO — In preparation

Statistical Modelling of Iranian Music

Ardavan Khalij, Geraint Wiggins, Nicholas Harley — Journal of New Music Research — In preparation

Statistical Modelling and Generation of Iranian Music

Ardavan Khalij, Geraint Wiggins, Nicholas Harley — ICCC — In preparation

CHAKRA: Common Hierarchical Abstract Knowledge Representation for Anything

Nicholas Harley, Ardavan Khalij — In preparation

WoLF+ algorithm based on WoLF

Ardavan Khalij, Kevin Sam, Nicolas Rowies — AAMAS — In preparation

Racism in artificial intelligence. Is this possible?

MLearning.ai (Medium) — Read

  • Additional essays on Fuzzy Logic (Parts 1 & 2), Evolutionary Computation (Parts 1 & 2), AI/ML overviews, and more.

Experience

IT Young Professional

AG Insurance • Brussels, Belgium

  • IS Non-Life API Team
Sep 2023 – Present

NLP unit designer for emergency call centers

VUB & Belgian Federal Police • Brussels, Belgium

  • Designed an NLU to assist call takers with suggested questions, using spaCy in Python.
Jan 2022 – Jun 2023

UI/UX Designer & Application Developer

Khushe Mehdi Co. • Gilan, Iran

  • Built a product management desktop app with Python tkinter.
Feb 2020 – Jun 2020

iOS Developer & UI/UX Designer

PINCO • Kashan, Iran

  • Developed an iOS app for reservations and company information (Sib App Store).
Dec 2018 – Mar 2019

Selected Academic Projects

NLP assistant for CIC call takers WoLF-PHC (WoLF+) CNN Image Colorization Creative Music Generator (Python) Smart Cooking Bot (Lisp + FCG) E-commerce Semantic Web (PostgreSQL) Poster DSL (SWI Prolog) Nine Men’s Morris (Prolog) Microservices Booking (Scala Akka) Twitter-like site (Scala Play) NPM package extractor (Akka Streams) iOS puzzle & logic games (AI) ALU & Simple CPU (Proteus)

Teaching

Instructor — University of Kashan — Computer Lab (Sep 2020 – Jan 2021)
Teaching Assistant — University of Kashan — Basic Programming; Prof. Dr. Fereshteh Dehghani (Sep 2019 – Jan 2020; Sep 2020 – Jan 2021)
Instructor — Salam Dibaji High School — Astrophysics (Sep 2014 – Jun 2015)

Skills & Test Scores

Programming

Professional

Python Swift C C# .NET (Core/Framework) COBOL PostgreSQL SQLite SQL Server Prolog R LaTeX HTML/CSS Julia

Elementary

C++ WPF MATLAB Assembly Oracle PHP VHDL Scala Lisp Turtle OWL JavaScript

Tools & Platforms

VS / VS Code MATLAB SQL Server Xcode EA UML Proteus AVR / Quartus ModelSim CodeVision FCG Editor IntelliJ / PyCharm SWI Prolog Protégé RStudio pgAdmin

Operating Systems

Windows Linux (Ubuntu) macOS iOS Android

Test Scores

  • IELTS Academic (18 Nov 2022): Overall 7 — R 7, L 8.5, S 6.5, W 6 — Download
  • Duolingo (09 Oct 2022): Overall 120 — Literacy 125, Comprehension 125, Conversation 115, Production 100 — Download
  • GRE General (05 Oct 2020): 299 — Q 162, V 137, AW 2.5 — Download

Certificates

  • 4th Conference on Computer Games: Challenges & Opportunities — 21 Feb 2019 — University of Kashan — Certificate
  • Support Vector Machines in Python — Coursera — Certificate
  • Python for Data Visualization: Matplotlib & Seaborn — Coursera — Certificate
  • Python for Data Analysis: Pandas & NumPy — Coursera — Certificate
  • Python 101: Develop Your First Python Program — Coursera — Certificate
  • Linear Regression with NumPy and Python — Coursera — Certificate
  • Image Processing with Python — Coursera — Certificate
  • Image Denoising Using Autoencoders in Keras & Python — Coursera — Certificate
  • Game Theory with Python — Coursera — Certificate
  • Exploratory Data Analysis with Python & Pandas — Coursera — Certificate
  • Create Your First Web App with Python & Flask — Coursera — Certificate
  • Concepts in Python: Loops, Functions & Returns — Coursera — Certificate
  • ChatGPT with Python: Build a Chatbot with the OpenAI API — Coursera — Certificate
  • COVID-19 Data Analysis Using Python — Coursera — Certificate

Leadership & Memberships

Leadership

  • Co-founder, Synapse Game Development Group — 2018, University of Kashan
  • Manager, University of Kashan’s Game Development Club — 2018–2020

Memberships

  • Member, Game Development Club — University of Kashan (2018–2020)

Interests

Singing Piano Songwriting Coding Swimming Volleyball

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Contact

Email: ardavan.khalij@outlook.com

Location: Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Scholar: Profile