I am currently working on my Masters in Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley. I received my BSc  in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science also from UC Berkeley. I am working on the StatNews project under Prof. Laurent El Ghaoui's supervision. I have completed my master's thesis and its report will be available very soon.

I am currently the head-TA for CS70 - Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science which is being thought by Prof. Alistair Sinclair (section notes). I was also the Teaching Assistant for CS70 thought by Prof. Luca Trevisan in spring 2007 (my section web-page).

1. V. Pournghshband, et al

An Optimal Query Execution Plan for Database Systems

In Proceedings of IRMA (Information Resource Management Association) Conference, 2007

[Abstract]

2. Pournaghshband, V. and Liewer, P.

Determination of the 3D Trajectory of Coronal Mass Ejections using Stereoscopy

Submitted to Berkeley Scientific Journal

[Abstract]

3. Pournaghshband, V.

A New Approach for Watermarking Relational Data

Submitted to 46^th ACM Southeast Conference

[Abstract]

4. Pournaghshband, V. and Hedayati, F.

An HMM-based Farsi Optical Character Recognition

Technical Report, UC Berkeley EECS Department

[Draft]