Besat Kassaie  
 Curriculum Vitae 
About MeI am a PhD candidate and member of Data Systems Group at University of Waterloo, supervised by Frank Tompa.  My research interests lie primarily in the area of Information Management Systems. Currently, I am developing static analyzers for complex programs which deal with unstructured data: Information Extractors.  
News!June 2020- MathDowsers (Waterloo team) placed in the top two positions the ARQMath Community Question Answering (CQA) task.  
 September 2019- Started to work on the mathematics retrieval project as a graduate research assistant.  
 September 2019- Presented our work in DocEng19 Berlin, Germany.[slides]  
 July 2019- I received DocEng'19 SIGWeb Student Student Travel Grants.  
 June 2019- Attended The 1st Annual CS-Can Student Symposium, McGill University, Montreal to present my work.[poster]  
 May 2019- Our paper titled "Predictable and Consistent Information Extraction " is accepted to be presented in 19th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering.  
 May 2019- PhD Seminar II DONE! [slides]  
 September 2018- Attended CPI Launch Event, Waterloo CyberSecurity and Privacy Institute to present my work.[poster]  
 December 2017- PhD Seminar I DONE! [slides]  
 December 2017- PhD Oral Presentation DONE!  
 December 2016- Courses Completed!  
Publications   
 Yin Ki Ng, Dallas J Fraser, Besat Kassaie, Frank Wm Tompa. 2021. Dowsing for Math Answers. In Proceedings of CLEF 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85251-1_16  
 Yin Ki Ng, Dallas J Fraser, Besat Kassaie, Frank Wm Tompa. 2021. Dowsing for Answers to Math Questions: Ongoing Viability of Traditional MathIR.  In CLEF 2021 Working Notes. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2936/  
 Besat Kassaie, Elizabeth L. Irving, and Frank Wm. Tompa. 2021. Computer-Assisted Cohort Identification in Practice.  In ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare 3, 2, Article 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3483411  
 Besat Kassaie and Frank Wm. Tompa. 2020. A Framework for Extracted View Maintenance. In  Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2020 (DocEng'20).Association for Computing Machinery. New York, NY, USA, Article 14.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3395027.3419592  
 Besat Kassaie and Frank Wm. Tompa. 2020. Detecting Opportunities for Differential Maintenance of Extracted Views. arXiv:2007.01973  
 Yin Ki NG, Dallas J. Fraser, Besat Kassaie, George Labahn, Mirette S.Marzouk, Frank Wm. Tompa, and Kevin Wang. 2020. Dowsing for Answers with Tangent-L. In CLEF 2020 Working Notes. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2696/  
 Besat Kassaie and Frank Wm. Tompa. 2019. Predictable and Consistent Information Extraction. In
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering 2019 (DocEng ’19).
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 14, 1–10. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3342558.3345391
  
Teaching   
 Teaching Assistant for CS348: Introduction to Database Management, Fall17, Spring17  
 Teaching Assistant for CS338: Computer Applications in Business:Databases, Winter17, Winter19  
 Teaching Assistant for CS240: Data Structures and Data Management, Winter16  
Course Projects   
 SPARQL over GraphX  
 De-identification In practice  
 Job Detection in Twitter