Alireza Kashian

Country:	Australia
Email:	alireza.kashian [at] gmail.com, kashian [at] itc.ir, alireza [at] rojina.com
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Alireza Kashian is member of ICANN community since 2004 and live in beautiful city of Melbourne in Australia.

He is senior adviser to deputy minister of ICT and head of ICT Organization of Iran (itc.ir) to develop and enhance policies about internet resources in Iran.

He is attending ICANN meetings regularly and his first attendance in ICANN meetings was in Kualalumpur (July 2014 ICANN #20).

Alireza has background knowledge in electrical engineering and computer science, specially design and implementation of software algorithms and managing IT projects. He has broad range of expertise as a serial entrepreneur, working on some online projects including Tehran Map project (started in 2008).

As an active member of Internet Governance community in Iran, Alireza has worked on different research projects including IPv4 stats in Iran (2003), IPv6 Transition (2004), Cybercrime Law (2004-2005), Dispute Resolution Policies inside Iran. Alireza was also the executive secretary of the Working Group of Internet Governance in Iran during the years 2004 and 2005.

In 2005, Alireza translated and published the book: Internet Governance: A Grand Collaboration into Persian.

Alireza is currently working on his Phd degree at the University of Melbourne. His research interests are: Volunteered Geographic Information, Human Computer Interaciton, Collaborative Mappping, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cartography. He is also research assistant at the Center for Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS).

Work

• Alireza is currently CEO of Rojina Computer Ltd. which is an Iranian private limited company specialized on location based services and online software development. (since 2004)

Career History

• Alireza was CEO and Director for IranServers Ltd 2002-2004, Hyper Systen (Farabord System) (2001-2002), Lilihood Pte. Ltd (2007-2011)
• Alireza founded several online projects such as:PicArtia, HidePlex, Eventorial, Talkomotion, RoadPlex, WarnWave.

Publications

• In 2010, Alireza Kashian, Sona Hassani and Ehsan Zaery Moghaddam, “A New Captcha Based on Understanding Harmony Images."
• In 2007, Alireza Kashian, Mahdi Rasouli, Habib, Robert K. L. Gay and Mir Mohamad Hosseini, "Commonsense Measurement Through Gaussian Interpolation of Tags for an Image Labeling Game."
• In 2006, Alireza Kashian Robert K. L. Gay and Abdul Karim, "Collaborative Concept Tagging for Images Based on Ontological Thinking."

Education

Alireza is currently phd student at the University of Melbourne. (Updated November 2015)

Alireza received Master of Engineering (By research) at Nanyang Technological University (2005 to 2007)