Ardavan Khalij

My name is Ardavan Khalij. I studied for my Bachelor's at the University of Kashan in the field of computer engineering and my Master's at Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) in the field of computer science and the specialization in Artificial Intelligence. My Master's thesis was about modelling, analysing, and generating Iranian traditional music with computational creativity and machine learning under the supervision of Professor Dr. Geraint Wiggins and Dr. Nicholas Harley. I am currently working on three new papers based on my thesis, and also I will present one of them at the Second international conference on computational and cognitive musicology in the University of Utrecht on the 18th of October. Some of my projects are available on my GitHub page down below.

Research interests

• Artificial Intelligence

• Machine Learning

• Deep Learning

• Computational Creativity

• Music Informatics

• Reinforcement Learning

• Natural Language Processing

Education

Honors and Awards

• Winner of the Computer Science Scholarship of Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) for 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 among all the 2021-2022 Accepted Students for Master of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.
• Ranked as the fourth top student among more than 50 students of Computer Engineering, University of Kashan, Iran.
• Being among the top 5% of university entry exam in Iran, 2016, Tehran, Iran.
• Accepted into the first step of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad in second year of high school in 2014, Tehran, Iran.
• Accepted into the first step of the Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad in third year of high school and being among the top ten among approximately 4,000 in Iran in 2015, Tehran, Iran.
• Accepted into the first step of the physics Olympiad in third year of high school in 2015, Tehran, Iran.

Publications

• Ardavan Khalij, Nicholas Harley; Computational Creativity: Generating melodies with unlimited length based on a new way of thinking; For GECCO; In Preparation.
• Ardavan Khalij, Geraint Wiggins, Nicholas Harley; Statistical Modelling of Iranian Music; For the Journal of New Music Research; In Preparation.
• Ardavan Khalij, Geraint Wiggins, Nicholas Harley; Statistical Modelling and Generation of Iranian Music: For ICCC; In Preparation.
• Nicholas Harley, Ardavan Khalij; CHAKRA: Common Hierarchical Abstract Knowledge Representation for Anything; In Preparation.
• Ardavan Khalij, Kevin Sam, Nicolas Rowies; WoLF+ algorithm based on WoLF; AAMAS; In Preparation.
• Ardavan Khalij; Racism in artificial intelligence. Is this possible?; MLearning.ai, Medium, Read the paper
• Ardavan Khalij; Fuzzy Logic Part 2 – (β, Cf, and find the right rule for new data); MLearning.ai, Medium, Read the paper
• Ardavan Khalij; Fuzzy Logic Part 1 – (The μ Parameter); MLearning.ai, Medium, Read the paper
• Ardavan Khalij; What is AI, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Fuzzy Logic?; Nerd For Tech, Medium, Read the paper
• Ardavan Khalij; Evolutionary Computation – Part 2 (Different Sections and Abilities); MLearning.ai, Medium, Read the paper
• Ardavan Khalij; Evolutionary Computation – Part 1 (Introduction and Benefits and Weaknesses); MLearning.ai, Medium, Read the paper
• Ardavan Khalij; How to solve poor internet connection; Nerd For Tech, Medium, Read the paper
• Ardavan Khalij; Compare a new method of classification with methods that already exist; MLearning.ai, Medium, Read the paper

Seminars and Workshops

Laboratory Experiences

• Analysis of graphs and photos and also use different effects on them in Matlab, Matlab workshop.
• Working with Proteus software, Quartos software, and also using “SN 74 ALS 245 A” chip to do some experiments, Logic Circuits, and Computer Architecture Laboratory.
• Using command line professionally to control the operating system and the computer, Operating Systems Laboratory.
• Using Code vision application and ATmega16/32 board for making counters and different functions, Microprocessor laboratory.
• Using different artificial intelligence algorithms to develop several games, Artificial intelligence.
• Internship with my supervisor about Image Processing for license plates and seeing how they work.

Academic Projects

• NLP unit for assissting the call takers in CIC centers
• WoLF-PHC and improve it (WoLF+)
• Image Colorization with CNN
• Music Generator creative system by Python
• Smart cooking bot by Lisp and FCG
• E-commerce semantic web system by PostgreSQL
• A domain-specific language for poster design by SWI Prolog
• Nine men Morris game competing with A.I by SWI Prolog
• Booking system Microservice architecture by Scala Akka Actor
• Twitter-like website with MVC software architecture by Scala Akka Play
• NMP Package extraction by Scala Akka Stream
• 1 to 9 puzzle game in iOS for solving by A.I
• Perfect mind game in iOS for solving by A.I
• Sudoku game in iOS for solving by A.I
• Make the primary computer for the fifth season of Morris Mano’s Architecture of computer book with Proteus
• Make an ALU for the Logical States with Proteus
• Design a C++ program for my advanced programming course at university
• Design a C program for my basic programming course at university
• Design an X&O game for IOS competing with A.I
• Design a calculator for IOS

Working Experiences

Teaching Experiences