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Nader Shakibay Senoabri

Nader Shakibay Senoabri

Pasadena

Summary

Physics Scientist with a PhD in Geophysics and undergraduate training in Physics (+astrophysics), with strong command of graduate-level physics across classical mechanics, electromagnetism, wave physics, acoustics, quantum mechanics, statistical physics, signal processing, elasticity, continuum mechanics, and seismology. Experienced in designing, solving, and evaluating complex physics problems, including national Physics Olympiad exams, with a focus on conceptual clarity and mathematical rigor. Expert in machine learning and AI, with extensive experience evaluating AI-generated scientific responses, identifying errors, and providing clear, structured feedback in collaboration with other AI experts. Brings a strong record of teaching (physics+AI+ML), peer review for top journals including Nature, and a commitment to scientific accuracy, academic precision, and clear communication in all physics content.

Work History

Lecturer / Teaching Professor

Computer Science Department, UC Riverside
Riverside
2023 - 2024
  • Designed and taught two "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" courses to over 200 students.
  • Created and graded problems requiring students to justify solutions, step by step, identify flawed assumptions, and assess model limitations.

Project Scientist

University of California, Riverside
Riverside
2019 - 2024
  • Led research combining physics-based time-series data in geophysics, and machine learning methods.
  • Evaluated complex model outputs for physical consistency, mathematical correctness, and robustness, closely paralleling the assessment of AI-generated scientific reasoning.
  • Designed physics-informed algorithms grounded in wave mechanics and statistical physics, ensuring outputs were scientifically justified, rather than heuristically plausible.

Education

Ph.D. - Geophysics

University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA
01-2018

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Sharif University of Technology
Tehran
01-2010

Skills

  • Graduate-level physics reasoning
  • Peer review and critical scientific judgment
  • Scientific evaluation of AI and LLM outputs
  • Scientific writing
  • Error detection in complex solutions
  • Problem formulation from physical systems
  • Physics-informed machine learning
  • Algorithmic reasoning and model validation
  • Clear scientific communication and expert feedback
  • Machine learning and time-series analysis for physical systems

Accomplishments

NSF Grant Contributor (#2103976) – Developed scalable ML for seismic detection

Affiliations

Peer Reviewer: Nature Communications, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Seismological Research Letters, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, SIAM International Conference on Data Mining

Patents

  • U.S. Patent Pending (App No. 63/870,020): Methods and Systems for Detecting Precursors via Stress-Sensitive Transformations of Seismic Noise (2025)

Selected publications

The Matrix Profile in Seismology: Template Matching of Everything with Everything, JGR: Solid Earth, 2024

Contrast Profile: A Novel Time Series Primitive for Real-World Classification, DMKD, 2022

Scaling Time Series Motif Discovery with GPUs, ACM SoCC, 2019

Full list available on Google Scholar or website (>14 peer reviewed papers).

Timeline

Lecturer / Teaching Professor

Computer Science Department, UC Riverside
2023 - 2024

Project Scientist

University of California, Riverside
2019 - 2024

Ph.D. - Geophysics

University of California, Riverside

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Sharif University of Technology
Nader Shakibay Senoabri