Graduate Researcher & Teaching Assistant @ Concordia University
Algorithms & Complexity Lab · Montréal, QC, Canada
I'm a thesis-based Master's student in Computer Science at Concordia University, working at the Algorithms & Complexity Lab under Prof. Hovhannes Harutyunyan with 5 published or in-progress papers and a teaching portfolio spanning 10 courses (1100+ hours). My work sits at the intersection of Theoretical Computer Science, Graph Theory, and Network Science — designing scalable algorithms for complex network analysis.
My core research focuses on community detection in large-scale graphs: I design, benchmark, and publish algorithms that uncover meaningful structure in social, citation, and synthetic networks.
"Design algorithms. Mine graphs. Understand networks."
- Design & Analysis of Algorithms — combinatorial optimization, approximation & randomized algorithms
- Graph Theory & Graph Mining — community detection, link prediction, node classification
- Social Networks Analysis — large-scale network evaluation, complex network dynamics
- Machine Learning on Graphs — GNNs, scalable training strategies, network embeddings
| Year | Paper | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Spider Community Detection: Seeded Geodesic Expansion with Modularity-Guided Refinement and Greedy Merge Matching (with H. Harutyunyan) | Computers — Special Issue: Recent Advances in Social Networks |
| 2025 | From Dense Graphs to Meaningful Communities: Assessing Community Quality Using Geodesic Distance Modularity on Metric Backbone-Sparsified Networks (with H. Harutyunyan) | SNAMS 2025, Vienna, Austria |
| 2024 | Extending Refactoring Detection to Kotlin: A Dataset and Comparative Study (with I. H. Moghadam et al.) | SANER 2024, Rovaniemi, Finland |
| 2022 | Community Detection in Complex Networks Based on an Improved Random Algorithm Using Local and Global Network Information (with F. Dabaghi-Zarandi) | Journal of Network and Computer Applications |
Programming Languages
ML & Data Science
Tools & Databases
- 🏅 Concordia Conference and Exposition Allowance (2025)
- 🥇 DRW Graduate Scholarship in Computer Science — Concordia University & DRW (2024)
- 🎓 Concordia Merit Scholarship (Entrance Award) — Concordia University, School of Graduate Studies (2024)
- 🔬 Financial Research Support (FRS) — Concordia Faculty of Engineering & Computer Science (2024)
- 🌟 Top Researcher Award — Among all undergraduate students in Kerman Province (2023)
- 🎖️ Distinguished Student Award — Vali-e-Asr University (2023)
I'm always happy to connect about research, collaborations, or opportunities.
- 🌐 Website: benymaxparsa.github.io
- 📧 Email: parsakamalipour.edu@gmail.com
- 💼 LinkedIn: parsakamalipour
- 🐦 Twitter/X: @ParsaKamalipour