Academic Background Robot programmer in the 2013 Robotics Olympiad I was a member of my university’s robotics team, specializing in AVR programming. We earned fifth place in a national competition focused on creating a route-finding robot, competing against prestigious universities in Iran. Academic Focus Areas What I'm Passionate About Operation ResearchCombinatorial OptimizationMetaheuristic AlgorithmsRouting ProblemsMathematical Programming UX DesignUI DesignProduct ResearchHuman-Computer InteractionHuman-Centered Design Shirin Mardanpour, Koorush Ziarati. ”A GRASP Algorithm for Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows in Vessel Routing Problem”. The 13th International Conference on Operations Research (ICORS 2020), Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran, pp.203-208.My paper has been selected as one of the featured articles for publication in the prestigious Modern Operation Research journal. Shirin Mardanpour, Koorush Ziarati. ”Evaluating the impact of acceptance criteria in vessel routing problem using adaptive large neighborhood search”. The 1st International Conference on Data Analysis: New Trends in Logistics and Supply Chain (DANT 2019), Vol. 1(1).