Fatemeh Jafari joins the team
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Welcome to Fatemeh Jafari, the second doctoral student to join my team! I will co-supervise her with dr. Fabian Mies (Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics) and prof. dr. Mathijs de Weerdt during her 4-year PhD journey at the Algorithmics section.
About Fatemeh
Fatemeh obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran, and her Master’s degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. She conducted her Master’s research on the topic of Reliable Wireless Communication Strategies in collaboration with BMW, under supervision of dr. Fidan Mehmeti (TUM) and dr. Luca Parolini (BMW).
Her interest in logical circuits, mathematical methods and artificial intelligence, as well as her demonstrated experience working on optimisation problems that are formulated probabilistic networks, make her an ideal candidate to join me during the four years of my Veni project on identifying important variables in probabilistic decision-making problems.
Fatemeh has already built a strong network of industrial contacts through her internships with, among others, Texas Instruments and BMW. This makes her a great addition to TU Delft in particular, since we value collaboration with industrial partners.
She has also demonstrated a dedication to building strong academic communities, by founding and hosting her own YouTube show, as well as founding the YouTube Channel of the Department of Electical Engineering of Sharif University of Technology. This commitment to community is also reflected in the mentorship and teaching assistant roles that she fulfilled as a student. I’m looking forward to seeing her grow in the role of mentor by co-supervising student projects with her.
During the interviews and the months leading up to her arrival in Delft, I’ve gotten to know Fatemeh a calm, intelligent, and motivated student with the ability to very quickly absorb new information. This sets her up for success in this collaboration between the Software Technology department and the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics. I am excited to welcome her to the team, and to see what she will make of the collaboration with our colleagues from Mathematics during the coming four years.