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Selected Publications Large-scale image classification using supervised spatial encoder. Dmitriy Bespalov, Yanjun Qi, Bing Bai, and Ali Shoko- ufandeh. To appear in International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Nov 2012. Sentiment Classification with Supervised Sequence Embedding. Dmitriy Bespalov, Yanjun Qi, Bing Bai, and Ali Shokoufan- deh. In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD), pages 159174, Sep 2012. Sentiment classification based on supervised latent n-gram analysis. Dmitriy Bespalov, Bing Bai, Yanjun Qi, and Ali Shokoufandeh. In ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), pages 375382, Oct 2011. On inferring image label information using rank minimization for supervised concept embedding. Dmitriy Bespalov, Anders Lindbjerg Dahl, Bing Bai, and Ali Shokoufandeh. In Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, pages 103113, May 2011. Geometric total variation for texture deformation. Dmitriy Bespalov, Anders Bjorholm Dahl and Ali Shokoufandeh. In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pages 45974600, Aug 2010. Classification of archaeological ceramic fragments using texture and color descriptors. Patrick Smith, Dmitriy Bespalov, Ali Shokoufandeh and Patrice Jeppson. In CVPR: Applications of Computer Vision in Archaeology, pages 4954, Jun 2010. On evaluating the efficiency of software feature development using algebraic manifolds. Jay Kothari, Dmitriy Bespalov, Spiros Mancoridis, Ali Shokoufandeh. In International Conference on Software Maintenance, pages 716, Jun 2008. Local feature extraction and matching partial objects. Dmitriy Bespalov, William C. Regli, and Ali Shokoufandeh. Journal of Computer-Aided Design, 38(9):10201037, Sep 2006. Benchmarking search techniques for CAD. Dmitriy Bespalov, Cheuk Yiu Ip, William C. Regli, and Joshua Shaffer. In ACM Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling, pages 275286, Jun 2005. Scale-space representation and classification of 3d models. Dmitriy Bespalov, Ali Shokoufandeh, William C. Regli, and Wei Sun. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 3(4):315324, Dec 2003. Scale-space representation of 3d models and topological matching. Dmitriy Bespalov, Ali Shokoufandeh, and William C. Regli. In ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, pages 208215, Jun 2003.
Teaching Experience Instructor for Machine Learning. Computer science department, Drexel University. Spring quarter, 2014. Instructor for Computer Science Foundations. Computer science department, Drexel University. Fall quarter, 2013. Instructor for Data Structures and Algorithms I-II (undergraduate and online graduate sections). Computer science department, Drexel University. Fall and Winter quarters of 2008 and 2009 academic years.
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