Professional Development

2020 IEEEVR Student Volunteer.

2019 Annual Meetings of American Association of Geographers (AAG), Washington DC: session chair of Immersive VI: Eclectic Topics II – Immersive Experiences and Technologies (part of six sessions on Immersive technologies).

2019 Annual Meetings of American Association of Geographers (AAG), Washington DC: session co-organizer of Immersive IV: Spatial Cognition in Virtual Environments – Opportunities through Immersive Technologies (part of six sessions on Immersive technologies).

Service to community

Immersive Technologies Demo, February 2020, Center for immersive Experiences, a formal demo for the Board of Trustees, University Park, PA.

Immersive Technologies Demo, December 2019, Center for immersive Experiences, a formal demo for the course WFED403: technology for work effective class, University Park, PA.

Immersive Technologies Demo, July 2019, Penn State’s Art of Discovery booth, The Art of Discovery Festival, University Park, PA.

Immersive Technologies Demo, May 2019, College of Earth and Mineral Science Graduate Ceremony, Penn State University.

Mentorship

Pennsylvania State University:

2022: Advisor, MS GIS Capstone proposal and project

2016 – 2020: I mentored several undergraduate students to develop their 3D modeling skills to create the immersive experience of the University Park Campus in 1922.

Professional Membership

• AAG: American Association of Geographers
• WiGIS: Women in GIS
• UCGIS: University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
• IEEE, Advancing Technology for Humanity, student membership
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Visualization and Graphics
• IEEE Education Society
• IEEE Geosciences and Remote Sensing Society
• IEEE Women in Engineering
• HFES: human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Teaching

2016 – 2022: Pennsylvania State University

GEOG 497- 3D Modeling and Virtual Reality (Spring 2022): Instructor of the course for Undergraduates in Geography.

GEOG 107- Immersive Technologies: transforming society through digital innovation (Spring 2021): Teaching Labs of Gen. Ed. course for undergraduate studies.

GEOG 197- Immersive Technologies: transforming society through digital innovation (Spring 2019): Teaching Labs of Gen. Ed. course for undergraduate studies.

GEOG 160- Mapping our Changing World (Fall 2018): Teaching Assistant of the online course for undergraduate students.

GEOG 497- 3D Modeling and Virtual Reality (Fall 2016): Co-instructor of the course as part of the online MS GIS program. Co-author on this course presented for the first time as part of the MS GIS.

GEOG 497A- Spatial Intelligence and 3D Modeling (Spring 2016): Teaching Assistant of the undergraduate level course.

2005, 2006, 2009: Tehran, Iran

GIS Workshop instructor: one-week training workshops for senior managers in the field of urban planning on ‘Application of GIS in Urban Planning and Conducting Urban Databases’: I taught the GIS concepts and applications in planning to the managers of Planning Departments of different cities to enable them in reviewing GIS analyses and maps produced by their consultants.

2007: Negin-Shahr Consulting Engineers, Tehran, Iran

Instructor of a three-month course; training employees on the application of GIS in Urban and Regional Planning: I provided GIS training and mentoring through presentations, one-on-one sessions, and GIS tip sheets. Mentored five staff specifically to be able to establish their GIS Lab.

2006: University of Tarbiat Moddares, Tehran, Iran

Teaching Assistant: a three-month advanced course on GIS Analysis in Urban & Regional Planning.