Assistant Prof. of Bioinformatics, Computer Engineering Department, Sharif University of Technology
Head of Bioinformatics Lab, Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology
Associate of Bioinformatics, Computer Science Department, Colorado State

Education
🔹 Associate of Bioinformatics, Chitsaz Lab, Computer Science Department, Colorado State University, 2014-2016
🔹 Research Assistant, Genomics and Computational Biology Division, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Muenster, Germany, 2012-2013
🔹 Bioinformatics Researcher, Royan Institute, 2014
🔹 Member of iPS & Epigenetic Reprogramming lab, Department of Stem Cells, Royan Institute, 2011-2014
🔹 Ph.D. of Bioinformatics, Institute of Biophysics & Biochemistry, University of Tehran, 2007-2015
🔹 M.Sc. of Computer Engineering (Software), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 2004-2006•B.Sc. of Computer Engineering (Software), Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, 2000-2004
🔹 Advanced Programming, Data Structures and Algorithm, Graph theory, Combinatorics & Backtracking, Summer and Winter Schools of the National Olympiad in Informatics, Young Scholars Club, 1998-2000
🔹 Diploma in Math, National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents - Shahid Sadoughi, 1996-2000

Honors and Awards
🏅Chair of Host Scientific Committee, International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), Tehran, 2017
🏅Elected Member of International Scientific Committee, International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), 2012-2014
🏅First place award of the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Rescue Robots Competitions, Canada, 2002
🏅Champion team of the ACM Collegiate Programming Contest in the Southwestern Asia Site, Tehran, 2002
🏅Member, National Committees of the Iranian national Olympiad in Informatics, 2000-Now
🏅Gold Medal of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), China, 2000
🏅1st place, National Team Selection Contest for participating the International Olympiad in Informatics, 2000
🏅Gold medal, National Olympiad in Informatics, 1999
🏅Silver medal, National Olympiad in Informatics, 1998
🏅1st place, National Collegiate Scientific Contest, 1996

Research Interests:
Application of deep learning methods and artificial intelligence in biomedical research, Computational methods in personalized medicine and cancer research, Stem cell research, regenerative medicine, and self-organization of the cells, Computational modeling and algorithmic analysis in genome, epigenome and transcriptome

🌐 Link to related pages:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ali_Sharifi-Zarchi
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=GbJMZLIAAAAJ&hl=en