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About

Raheleh Biglari got her PhD in Applied Engineering focusing on Modelling and Simulation and Digital Twins at the University of Antwerp, Cosys-Lab research group under the supervision of Prof.dr. Joachim Denil. Her research focuses on modelling & simulation, adaptive systems, and digital twins, with growing emphasis on applying AI, including machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, to these domains. Specifically, she is interested in performance modelling, proposing methods, tools, and techniques for computational problems.

Dissertation:

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

Her research interests are:

Modelling and Simulation,
        
Digital Twins Engineering,
        
Surrogate Modelling,
        
Cyber-physical systems,
        
Adaptive Systems,
        
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 Modelling 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 Modelling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM), 2025, in press.

- 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:

Board Member of Belgian Women in Science (BeWiSe)

Conference Co-chair:

- Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS) track at 5Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) 2025

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

Modelling/Simulation/Digital Twin/Software Engineering Conferences/Workshops:

* Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM'25). Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. 26 - 29 May 2025.

* The 15th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2025). Bilbao, Spain. 11 - 13 June 2025.

* The 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'25). Vienna, Austria. 16 - 20 June 2025.

* The 39th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (SIGSIM-PADS '25). Santa Fe institute, NM, USA. 23 - 26 June 2025.

* Digital Twins for Space Manufacturing and Satellites, part of the SPACERAISE doctoral school for the space sector. Gran Sasso Science Institute, l'Aquila, Italy. 19 - 23 May 2025.

* The sixth Annual Summer School on Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things. Budva, Montenegro. 10 - 14 June 2024.

* The 21st European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA 2025). Koblenz, Germany. 10 - 11 June 2025. Part of STAF 2025.

* The 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2025). Koblenz, Germany. 12 - 13 June 2025. Co-located with STAF 2025.

* The 35th Annual INCOSE International Symposium. Ottawa, Canada. 26 - 31 July 2025.

* The ACM/IEEE 28th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS). Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 5 - 10 October 2025.

* The 17th System Analysis and Modelling conference (SAM 2025). Co-located with MoDELS 2025. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 6 - 7 October 2025.

* The second International Conference on Engineering Digital Twins (EDTconf 2025). Co-located with MoDELS 2025. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. 6 - 7 October 2025.

* The 58th Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'2025). Seattle, WA, USA. 7 - 10 December 2025.

* Embedded Real-Time Systems congress (ERTS'2026). Toulouse, France. 5 - 6 February 2026.

* The 48th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2026). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 12 - 18 April 2026.

* The 29th Forum on specification and Design Languages (FDL). Antwerp, Belgium. September 2026.