Siamak Khatami
About
My name is Siamak Khatami. I hold both a BSc and an MSc in industrial engineering and started my PhD program at NTNU in March 2020. Specific interests of mine include programming, artificial intelligence, statistics, agent-based modeling, and complex systems simulation.
I started my academic career with a project at the University of Zurich, Department of Psychology, under the supervision of Dr. Robert Tobias. In that project, I got the opportunity to face the practical problems of designing and implementing agent-based models. This experience encouraged me to look for research positions in the area of agent-based modeling. That was how I found my current position at NTNU under the supervision of Dr. Christopher Frantz.
PhD:
The objective of my PhD is to facilitate agent-based modeling for policy analysis using AI. For this purpose, I am drawing on developing various statistical and computational methodologies, for instance, nonlinear regression model identification using ML and automated simulation model generation using NLP. In brief, the list of sub-projects is as follows (For publications, please refer to the publications tab):
- Copatrec, a Python package to find data-oriented nonlinear relations using machine learning
- Natural Language Processing for Policy Analysis and Agent-based Generation
Teaching:
Besides my research project, I also have some teaching responsibilities and lectures in Cloud technologies, including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS-related concepts and projects (such as Rest-API, GraphQL, NoSQL databases, micro-services, and API-based software structures). We continuously try to update course materials and introduce state-of-the-art technologies in this field to the students.
Supervision:
Besides my research and teaching activities, I supervised a master project about "Classification of Fish Species Using Deep Learning Models" (Varun Srivastava), which was finished on June 2023.
Research Group:
I am currently a member of the Intelligent Systems and Analytics (ISA) research group at NTNU.
Research
The Intelligent Systems and Analytics group is a multi-disciplinary team of computer scientists comprising numerous labs and subgroups dedicated to enhancing computer-based methodology and its application across various domains like programing, Software development, educational technologies, decentralized systems, artificial intelligence, Social simulations, and policy analysis.
Publications
2023
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Khatami, Siamak;
Frantz, Christopher Konstantin.
(2023)
Copatrec: A correlation pattern recognizer Python package for nonlinear relations.
SoftwareX
Academic article
2021
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Jafarpour, Amir;
Khatami, Siamak.
(2021)
Analysis of Environmental Costs’ Effect in Green Mining Strategy Using a System Dynamics Approach: A Case Study.
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Academic article
Journal publications
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Khatami, Siamak;
Frantz, Christopher Konstantin.
(2023)
Copatrec: A correlation pattern recognizer Python package for nonlinear relations.
SoftwareX
Academic article
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Jafarpour, Amir;
Khatami, Siamak.
(2021)
Analysis of Environmental Costs’ Effect in Green Mining Strategy Using a System Dynamics Approach: A Case Study.
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Academic article
Teaching
Supervision
[2023]: MSc Thesis
Title: "Classification of Fish Species Using Deep Learning Models"
Student: Varun Srivastava
Main Supervisor: Siamak Khatami
Co-supervisor: Ahmad Hasanpour