S.M.M. (Saied) Tahaghoghi - Professional Activities

Seyed Mohammad Mehdi (Saied) Tahaghoghi

سید محمد مهدی (سعید) تحققی مهریزی

B.E. (hons) Electronics Eng., M.Sc. Comp. Eng., Ph.D. Comp. Sci.

Professional Activities

Conference Committees

Member of Program Committee:
- Thirty-third Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2010)
- Eighteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2009)
- International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2009)
- Sixth Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2008)
- International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP 2008)
- Seventeenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008)
- Tenth International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2008)
- Nineteenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2008)
- Twelfth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2007)
- Fifth Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2007)
- Ninth International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2007)
- Eighteenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2007)
- Fourth Australasian Language Technology Workshop (ALTW 2006)
- Seventeenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2006)
- Tenth Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2005)
- Third ITI International Conference on Information & Communication Technology (ICICT 2005).
- Seventh International Conference on Information Integration and Web Based Applications & Services (iiWAS2005)
- Sixteenth Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2005)
Coordinating academic, Australasian Undergraduate Students' Conference (AUSCC 2004)
Technical chair, RMIT Computer Science Postgraduate Research Conference (CSPRSC 2000 and CSPRSC 2001).

Reviewing

Referee, AAECC2007, ACSC2001, ACSC2003, ADC2001, ADC2004, ADC2005, ADC2006, ADC2007, ADC2008, ADCS2005, ADCS2007, AI2006, ALTW2006, ALTW2007, ALTW2008, AUSCC2004, BIDM2003, CIKM2002, CIKM2004, ICEG2005, ICICT2005, iiWAS2005, iiWAS2007, iiWAS2008, INMIC2004, IRMA2003, PAKDD2006, SIGIR2002, SIGIR2004, SIGIR2006, SIGIR2007, SIGIR2010, SIGMAP2008, SIGMAP2009, SIGMOD2003, SIGMOD2004, SIGMOD2006, SIGMOD2007, SPIRE2003, SPIRE2004, SPIRE2005, VLDB2005, WWW2008, WWW2009, ...
Referee, ACM TOIS, DMKD, ETRI Journal, IEICE TOIS, Information Retrieval, JDFSL, JRPIT, NLE, TKDE, ...
Technical reviewer, Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, Hugh E. Williams and David Lane, O'Reilly and Associates. First edition 2002, and second edition, 2004.

Affiliations and Awards

Member, IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, ACM, ACS.
Member, Melbourne MySQL User Group.
Awards received include:
- RMIT University School of CS&IT award for on-time completion of PhD research, 2002.
- International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS), 1999-2002.
- Presidential Gold Medal in Computer Engineering, Pakistan, 1998.
- Chief of Army Staff Gold Medal in Electronics Engineering, Pakistan, 1996.
- Second position, All-Pakistan Science Exhibition, 1996.

Other

I wrote the book Learning MySQL
with Hugh Williams, and published by O'Reilly Media.

Learning MySQL web site
Learning MySQL catalogue page
Local copies of the Examples and Data files.

I was a member of the Information Storage, Analysis, and Retrieval Discipline, led by Associate Professor James Thom.
I developed the WebMark web-based marking and administration system.
I was the liaison officer for the Australian Society for Iranian Professionals.

Media

'Rooz as now' program, Channel Two, Iran. 30th December 2008.
2SM Sydney and 5AA Adelaide, Australia. 14th September 2007.
ABC Radio National, Australia. 14th September 2007.
Australian Financial Review, Australia. 17th April 2007.
ComputerWorld, Australia. 12th August 2006.
IRNA, Iran. 19th April 2005.
Jam-e-Jam Newspaper, Iran. 2nd November 2004.
'Ghalamro' program, Farhang radio, Iran. 24th and 31st October 2004.
Invited speaker, First national conference on e-Business, Tehran, Iran. 10-11 October 2004