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About Me

Since 2021, I have been a Ph.D. researcher in the Cosys-Lab research group at the University of Antwerp under the supervision of Prof.dr. Joachim Denil.

My PhD research topic is:

Foundations for Self-Adaptive Abstraction and Approximation in Digital Twins with Real-time Requirements

My research interests are:

Modeling and Simulation,
Digital Twins Engineering,
Cyber-physical systems,
Adaptive Systems,
Real-Time Systems,
Algorithms
, Software Engineering
, and I am open to broadening my knowledge in other interesting topics in Computer Engineering.

Teaching:

Current Courses

University of Antwerp, Belgium:

- TA: Cyber-Physical Systems I (CPS I) - Digital Twin Lab - Main Lecturer: Prof. dr. Joachim Denil - 2023-now

- TA: Cyber-Physical Systems I (CPS I) - Functional Safety Lab - Main Lecturer: Prof. dr. Joachim Denil - 2023-now

- Co-promoter of Bachelor and Master students Theses

Previous Courses

University of Antwerp, Belgium:

- TA: Numerical Modeling and Simulation - Main Lecturer: Prof. dr. Joachim Denil - 2021-2023

Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran:

- TA: Advanced Algorithms - Main Lecturer: Prof. dr. Alireza Bagheri

University of Applied Science and Technology, Iran:

- Fundamentals of Programming

- Object-Oriented Programming

- Software Engineering II

- Data Structures & Algorithms

- Databases

- Linux

- Technical and Scientific Presentation

- Academic English

Publication:

- R. Biglari, C. Gomes, and J. Denil, “Towards a validity frame of multi-modal surrogate models for traffic simulation,” in 2025 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (\textit{ANNSIM}), 2025, manuscript accepted for publication.

- Z. Ali, R. Biglari, J. Denil, J. Mertens, M. Poursoltan, and M. K. Traoré, “From modeling and simulation to digital twin: evolution or revolution?” SIMULATION, vol. 100, no. 7, pp. 751–769, 2024

- R.Biglari,J.Denil, "Real-time adaptive abstraction and approximation using validity frames : an experience report" publisher: arXiv, arXiv:2303.07144, 2023

- R. Biglari and J. Denil, “Model validity and tolerance quantification for real-time adap- tive approximation,” in 2022 Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings, ser. MODELS ’22. Montreal, Canada, 2022

- R. Biglari, J. Mertens, and J. Denil, “Towards Real-time Adaptive Approximation,” in 2022 11th European Congress Embedded Real Time Systems - ERTS 2022, Toulouse, France, Jun. 2022

- R.Biglari, A.Bagheri, "PPreDeCon : a parallel version of preference density connected clustering algorithm" International journal of computer applications vol.: 107 issue: 1 pag.: 22 - 26

Academic Service:

Journal Peer-Reviewer:

- International Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)

- SIMULATION: Transactions of The Society for Modeling and Simulation International

Conference Peer-Reviewer:

- Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)

- Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM)

Organizing Committee Member

- Erasmus Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on Model-based Systems Engineering for Digital Twin System (MBSE4DT) (3 ECSTS credits), University of Antwerp, Belgium, Oct-Dec 2024

- GirLS leading in science

Website Developer & Volunteer:

- Belgian Women in Science (BeWiSe)

- GirLS leading in science