Ala Tarighati

Biography:

I was born in Sari, Iran, 1986. I received my M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from university of Tehran, Iran, in Feb. 2011. From 2010 to 2011, I was working at Fara-Afrand company, Tehran, Iran.

In December 2011, I was admitted to the Ph.D. program of excellence in electrical engineering at KTH royal institute of technology. I Defended my dissertation on November 30, 2016 (Watch my PhD pitch).

Currently I am working as Group Chief Data Scientist, and Head of Group Data Analytics at SEB, Stockholm.

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Presentations/Talks:

[t7] Invited Talk, HP Data Science Open in Stockholm, "Why our Data Science projects fail," Stockholm, Oct. 2022.

[b2] Blog post, SEB Tech Blog, "MLOps: Why You Need It in Your Organization – Part 2", Dec 2021, available here.

[b1] Blog post, SEB Tech Blog, "MLOps: Why You Need It in Your Organization – Part 1", Nov 2021, available here (re-published on Combient Twin).

[t6] Invited Talk, Buildstuff, "Development to Deployment of ML Models," Hybrid Conference, Vilnius 2021.

[t5] Invited Talk, NDSML Summit, "Building and Maintaining an ML Production Pipeline at SEB," Online, 2021.

[t4] Invited Talk, QA Financial Digital Forum, "AI and data science applied: Building and maintaining a model production pipeline at SEB", Online 2020.

[t3] Guest Lecturer, Statistical Machine Learning, Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Course Page, Uppsala, 2020.

[t2] Invited Talk, NDSML Summit, "AI customer service, business challenges and opportunities," available here, Stockholm, 2019.

[t1] Invited Talk, SWEDS, "From School to Industry, Data Science at SEB Analytics," available here, The 6th Swedish Workshops on Data Science, Umeå, 2018.

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Publications:

PhD Dissertation:

A. Tarighati, "Decentralized hypothesis testing in sensor networks", (Part 1:Summary, Part 2:Paper A,Paper B,Paper C,Paper D,Paper E,Paper F,Paper G)

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Journal papers:

[j5] H. Hultin, H Hult, A. Proutiere, S. Samama,A. Tarighati, "A generative model of a limit order book using recurrent neural networks", Quantitative Finance,  Volume 23, 2023, Issue 6 (available here)

[j4]A. Tarighati, J. Gross, J. Jaldén, "Decentralized hypothesis testing in energy harvesting wireless sensor networks",IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 65, no. 18, pp. 4862-4873 · Sep. 2017. (PDF)

[j3]A. Tarighati, J. Jaldén, "Optimality of rate balancing in wireless sensor networks,"IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 64, no. 14, pp. 3735-3749, July 2016. (PDF)

[j2] A. Tarighati, J. Jaldén, “Bayesian design of tandem networks for distributed detection with multi-bit sensor decisions,”IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 1821-1831, April 2015. (PDF)

[j1]A. Tarighati, H. Farhadi, F. Lahouti, “Design of LDPC codes robust to noisy message-passing decoding,” available online:arXiv:1501.02483

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Conference papers:

[c6]A. Tarighati, J. Gross, J. Jaldén, "Distributed detection in energy harvesting wireless sensor networks",European Signal Process. Conf. (EUSIPCO), Aug. 2016. (PDF)

[c5] A. Tarighati, J. Jaldén, "Rate allocation for decentralized detection in wireless sensor networks",16th IEEE Int. Workshop Signal Process. Advances in Wireless Commun.(SPAWC), Jun 2015. (PDF)

[c4] A. Tarighati, J. Jaldén, "A general method for the design of tree networks under communication constraints",17th Int. Conf. Information Fusion (FUSION), July 2014. (PDF)

[c3]A. Tarighati, J. Jaldén, "Bayesian design of decentralized hypothesis testing under communication constraints", IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, Signal Process. (ICASSP), May 2014. (PDF)

[c2]A. Tarighati, H. Farhadi, F. Lahouti, "Performance analysis of noisy message-passing decoding of low-density parity-check codes",6th Int. Symp. Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Process. (ISTC), Sep 2010. (PDF)

[c1] K. Kazemi, S. Ghadimi, A. Lyaghat,A. Tarighati, N. Golshaeyan, H. Abrishami Moghaddam, R. Grebe, C. Gondry-Jouet, F. Wallois, "Automatic fontanel extraction from newborn's CT images using variational level set",Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5702/2009, 639–646, 2009. (PDF)

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Posters:

[p2] A. Tarighati,J. Jaldén, “Optimality of rate balancing in wireless sensor networks,” poster session presented atACCESS-FORCES workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems, Oct 2015.

[p1]A. Tarighati, J. Jaldén, “Bayesian design of quantization for decentralized hypothesis testing,” poster session presented attheSwedish Communication Technologies Workshop (Swe-CTW), Aug 2013.

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Supervision:

PhD Thesis

[t2] Hanna Hultin, WASP Industrial PhD Student

Master Thesis

[t1] Therese Stålhandske,  “Incorporating speaker’s role in classification of text-based dialogues,” KTH School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), available here: http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1417108&dswid=3809, 2019.