Dr. Amir Ali Rafati Afshar
Assistant Manager at Barnes & Noble, Inc.
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
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- Deliver and grow sales and other business metrics year-over-year. 
- Assist with recruiting, onboarding and developing talent through training and coaching. 
- Establish staffing plan and redeploy booksellers to positively impact sales.
Houston, Texas, United States
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Assistant Manager
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
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- Oversee and monitor new hire orientation and training process
- Plan and assign work to optimize the payroll and drive sales.
- Understand, review and execute the integrated store operations standards.
- Prepare and deliver performance reviews for three members on team.
Houston, Texas, United States
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Sales & Inventory Manager
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
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- Communicate with, identify and respond to customer needs.
- Provide book recommendations, offer memberships, and wrap up sales.
- Winner of Above and Beyond Award in December 2015.
- Employee of District 125 in January 2016.
Houston, Texas Area
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Bookseller
Bournemouth University
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PhD research with focus on classifying highly imbalanced binary datasets that have a high number of instances and features (high-dimensional). Developed a pioneering framework enabling the analysis of the virtual screening of chemical compound datasets from a wide range of settings in a unified fashion. This framework provides a better understanding of the dynamics of innovatively combining data processing and classification methods in order to screen massive, potentially high-dimensional and overly imbalances datasets more efficiently.

Teaching and lab assistant for Web Development unit PHP and MySQL for second year undergraduates.
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
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Post Graduate Researcher
Bournemouth University
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6th Annual PGR Conference Bournemouth University 24/01/2013

7th Annual PGR Conference Bournemouth University 20-21/01/2014

1st Annual SciTech Conference Bournemouth University 20/05/2015
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
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University Conference
Bournemouth University
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Reviewed Jourmal papers in Pattern Recognition Letters 2014, December 2014
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
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Paper Reviewer
Bournemouth University
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Introduction to Education Practice for Post Graduate Researchers
Bournemouth, United Kingdom
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University Workshops
External Conferences
IEEE SMC 2013, Manchester United Kingdom
Manchester, United Kingdom
Conferences Attended
Ridgian
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ridgian
Junior Business Intelligence developer specialising in working with Microsoft SQL Server products. Normalised / legacy databases from clients would be studies and analysed and then de-normalised in order to optimise them for better and quicker and more accurate reporting purposes.

Microsoft SQl Server Analysis Services
Microsoft SQl Server Integration Services
Microsoft SQl Server Reporting Services
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Junior BI Developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Misclassification of molecules in cases such as drug discovery and medical diagnosis is costly, both in time and finances. In the process of discovering a drug, it is mainly the inactive molecules classified as active towards the biological target i.e. false positives that cause a delay in the progress and high late-stage attrition. However, despite the pool of techniques available, the selection of the suitable approach in each situation is still a major challenge.
In this thesus we designed and developed a pioneering framework which enables the analysis of the virtual screening of chemical compounds datasets in a wide range of settings in a unified fashion. The proposed method provides a better understanding of the dynamics of innovatively combining data processing and classification methods in order to screen massive, potentially high dimensional and overly imbalanced datasets more efficiently.
Computer Software Engineering and Informatics
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Bournemouth University
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BSc (HONS)
Four year sandwqich course (including one year working in the industry) with focus on programming, project management and software testing.
Computing
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Bournemouth University
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Drug discovery relies much on data processing. Virtual screening (VS) is a typical method of drug discovery that exploits chemical structures (molecules) to identify those that are likely to bind to a particular drug target. VS can be turned into either a matching or a classification problem where the quality of the data matters very much. The number of features (and their properties) and data imbalance are general problems of chemical datasets used in VS. This paper investigates how to deal with these two problems to enhance the accuracy of VS and specifically to reduce the false positive rate.
An Empirical Investigation of Virtual Screening
IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
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Award for excellence in delivering extraordinary customer service, team spirit, going the extra mile, increasing business knowledge and personal growth.
Barnes and Noble
Regional winner of the Above & Beyond award
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Greater Stoke-on-Trent Area
Paul Gilbert
Director at Trafalgar Europe Ltd
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West Midlands
Peter Steele
Property Consultancy Company Principle
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/anthony-michael-b1aa4195
London Area, United Kingdom
Anthony Michael
Assistant Technical Consultant at Circyl
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/paul-beckford-a467126a
West Midlands
Paul Beckford
Instructor/CPO
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maria-chauhan-6097a5197
Birmingham
Maria Chauhan
Data Controller at BGF
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/christopher-mason-a14368bb
West Midlands
christopher mason
Singer songwriter at chris mason music
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/tara-jones-a5560374
Walgrave
Tara Jones
Freelance Finance Consultant
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/shaunbellhartley
West Midlands
Shaun Bell-Hartley
Business Account Manager @BT
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West Midlands
Darren Evans
Director, Printland
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United Kingdom
Brian Ellis
Tarmacadam Surfacing Contractors--
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/gary-griffiths-aa6a6661
Telford
Gary Griffiths
Scrum Master and Solutions Architect
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mfearn
Solihull
Martin Fearn
Associate Director 🌱
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/rachel-scheuber-b325ab51
West Midlands
Rachel Scheuber
Digital Marketing Manager at Everyday Loans
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/alexa-barnett-b9822339
Pymore
Alexa Barnett
Practice Support Manager at The McLean Partnership
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Los Angeles, CA
Rebecca Reaney
Movement Coach at IDENTITY SCHOOL OF ACTING LTD
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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Paul Shirley
Winter adventure sports specialist.  Organiser of worldwide splitboard expeditions
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Princes Risborough
Andy Smith
Principal Systems Engineer at RELX
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New London County, CT
Chris Johnson
Enterprise Architect at CIANBRO
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United States
Matthew Pugh
Computer Guy
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