S.M.M. (Saied) Tahaghoghi

Seyed Mohammad Mehdi (Saied) Tahaghoghi

سید محمد مهدی (سعید) تحققی مهریزی

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

Home Page

Hi! This page is rarely updated - you can also find me on LinkedIn and Facebook.
I'm a Product TPM at Meta (a.k.a Facebook); before that I was a Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft Bing search engine team, and before that, I was a senior lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University :).
I wrote the Learning MySQL book with Hugh Williams (published by O'Reilly Media).

Teaching

Research

My research interests include:

Doctoral Supervision

Name	Area	Other supervisor
Passed:
Jelita Asian	Effective Indonesian Text Retrieval	Dr. Falk Scholer
Nikolas Askitis	Efficient Data Structures for Cache Architectures	Professor Justin Zobel
Yaniv Bernstein	Detecting co-derivative documents in large collections	Professor Justin Zobel
Jun Jie Foo	Efficient co-derivative image detection	Professor Justin Zobel
Rahayu Binti A Hamid	Relevance Feedback for Content-based Image Retrieval	Associate Professor James Thom Dayang NurFatimah Awang Iskandar
Dayang NurFatimah Awang Iskandar	Reducing the Semantic Gap in Content-based Image Retrieval	Associate Professor James Thom
Abdussalam Nwesri	Effective retrieval techniques for Arabic text	Dr. Falk Scholer
Jovan Pehcevski	Content-oriented XML retrieval	Associate Professor James Thom
Milad Shokouhi	Efficient Distributed Information Retrieval	Professor Justin Zobel and Dr. Falk Scholer
Timo Volkmer	Indexing video for content-based video retrieval	Associate Professor James Thom
Previous supervision:
Steven Burrows	Detecting common authorship and co-derivation in source code	Dr. Andrew Turpin
Michael Harris	Effective Retrieval of Digital Material for Teaching and Learning	Associate Professor James Thom

Italics indicates second/third supervisor.

Previous honours and master's students listed under Supervision History

Other Information

At RMIT University I was a member of the Information Storage, Analysis, and Retrieval Discipline, the RMIT Search Engine Group and the RMIT Bioinformatics Search Group.
I also developed the WebMark web-based marking and administration system for the School.

I'm bilingual in English and Persian (Farsi), and have a good understanding of Arabic, French, and Urdu (and so spoken Hindi);
a long time ago, I could claim I knew quite a bit of Latin :)
I travel quite a lot - here's a map of places that I have visited; you can create your own visited country map.
I think you'll enjoy learning about Iran (Persia) and Australia. See also the Lonely Planet notes on Iran (Persia) and Australia.
I’ve placed some possibly useful files on my Downloads page.