CURRENT MISSION

A tech startup.

ABOUT ME

Personality: I am open-minded and I love to learn new things and new people. I love traveling, cooking, reading wikipedia and talking to people.

Professional: I am a PhD student at UIUC (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). I study Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and I love my research.

Nationality: I am Iranian and I am raised in Tehran. I was born in the UK and now I live in the US.

I love to listen to people's amazing stories. :)

PHILOSOPHY

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy.html

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I regularly meet CS people in our town.
I host new students arriving in the town.
I give ride to my friends to shopping.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

visited 24 states (10.6%)reference

Interests

- knowing new people
- having new Experiences
- Cooking
- Photography
- Computer Graphics

• photography
• cooking
• shopping
• politics
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• biology
• chemistry
• computer science
• geography
• history
• physics
• science
• tourism

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I drove once from Tehran to Rome and back. I visited all over western Turkey, Greece and Italy in the middle. In separate trips I also visited eastern Turkey, Syria, Armenia and Georgia. My parents are going on another trip to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan but I am stuck in the US and cannot attend them...

I got a bronze medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics and a Gold medal in national computer Olympiad of Iran.

I have traveled to 30 out of 31 provinces in Iran and I consider myself a professional tour guide in Iran.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am good at: Programming, Physics, Photography, Persian Language, Philosophy, Politics and Geography.

I like to learn: Biology, History, Chemistry and everything else

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Iran, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

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