Mahmoud Parham

I received my PhD from the University of Vienna (2022, thesis). I was honored to be a member of the research group Communication Technologies led by Prof. Stefan Schmid. My research involved solving optimization problems around software-defined networking and network function virtualization concepts. I’m interested in applied research and/or development opportunities in English-speaking companies.

Work and Education

• November 2023–Present. IMS Nanofabrication GmbH, Software Developer, Vienna

• September 2022–July 2023. Salzburg Research mbH, Research and Development

• May 2022–August 2022. Software Developer, Parity Quantum Computing GmbH, Innsbruck

• March 2018–December 2022. Doktoratsstudium der technischen Wissenschaften, University of Vienna, supervised by Prof. Stefan Schmid, Thesis: Algorithms for Traffic Control Challenges in Softwarized Networks 2, defended December 2022

• May 2017–February 2018. PhD Fellow in Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark, Supervisor: Stefan Schmid (continued in Austria)

• February 2014–October 2015. Software Developer, Doc Cirrus GmbH, Berlin, Germany

• 2010–2012. MSc in Computer Science, Sharif University, Tehran, Iran

• 2004–2009. BSc in Informatics, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran

Publications

1. Traffic Engineering with Joint Link Weight and Segment Optimization
   Mahmoud Parham, Thomas Fenz, Nikolaus Süss, Klaus-Tycho Foerster, and Stefan Schmid. 17th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Munich, Germany, December 2021.

2. Optimal Online Balanced Graph Partitioning
   Maciej Pacut, Mahmoud Parham, and Stefan Schmid. 40th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Virtual Conference, May 2021.

3. Local Fast Segment Rerouting on Hypercubes
   Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Mahmoud Parham, Stefan Schmid, and Tao Wen.
   22nd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), Hong Kong, December 2018.

4. TI-MFA: Keep Calm and Reroute Segments Fast
   Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Mahmoud Parham, Marco Chiesa, and Stefan Schmid.
   IEEE Global Internet Symposium (GI), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, April 2018.

5. A Walk in the Clouds: Routing through VNFs on Bidirected Networks
   Klaus-Tycho Foerster, Mahmoud Parham, and Stefan Schmid. 3rd International Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD), collocated with ESA, Vienna, Austria, September 2017.

Complete List in Google Scholar

Education

• March 2018-2022 PhD student (praedoc), University of Vienna, Supervisor: Stefan Schmid,
  • Thesis: Algorithms for Traffic Control Challenges in Softwarized Networks
• May 2017-February 2018 PhD Fellow in Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark, Supervisor: Stefan Schmid
• 2010-2012, Master of Science, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
• 2004-2009, Bachelor in Computer Engineering, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
• 2000-2004, High School Diploma in Mathematics and Physics, Shahrood, Iran

Industry Experience

• I have coded in C[++][11], Java, Javascript, Python, and typical web development and scripting languages.
• I worked at a German startup in Berlin, Doc Cirrus GmbH (2013–2015) as a backend developer (more of full stack). I was involved in the develpment of their core backend functions on NodeJS.
• I had numerous programming jobs back in home country as a passion and means of subsistence while studying (2002–2013).