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Majid Mirzanezhad

Majid Mirzanezhad
Assistant Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Russ College of Engineering and Technology
Stocker Center 376
Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ University
Athens, OH
miirza@ohio.edu
740-593-1137

Majid Mirzanezhad, Ph.D., is a computer scientist whose expertise bridges the theoretical and applied facets of computer science. His research focuses on computational geometry, shape and image analysis, spatial systems, and transportation. Dr. Mirzanezhad is dedicated to designing efficient and impactful computational frameworks that enhance the equity of transportation services for underserved populations. His work aims to improve access to medical facilities for vulnerable individuals, fostering a stigma-free community by providing actionable policy insights. These insights empower policymakers and practitioners in adjacent disciplines to refine infrastructure and optimize logistics for equitable commuting solutions.  

 

Dr. Mirzanezhad has served as a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) and as a Research Associate at global policy think tank RAND Corporation, where he contributed to the design of community-centered commuting services. He has received the Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on Spatial Computing and Computation (IWISC) and has been actively involved in numerous high-impact projects at the national level, spanning academia, think tanks, and the private sector. His collaborators include the National Science Foundation, Ford Motor Company, and RAND Corporation.

Education

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, 2024

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, 2021 

  • Bsc/Msc, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), 2015

 

Research/Professional Interests

  • Computational Geometry – Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – Spatial Algorithms – Transportation

     

Publications

  • H. Akitaya, M. Buchin, M. Mirzanezhad, L. Ryvkin, and C. Wenk, "Realizability of Free Spaces of Curves'', In the 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC) 283(5): 1--20, 2023. To appear in the Journal of Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications (CGTA) (Special Issue). 

  • M. Kerkhof, I. Kostitsyna, M. Löffler, M. Mirzanezhad and C. Wenk. "Global Curve Simplification'', European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 144:1–14, Munich, Germany, 2019.