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My CV

Education:

PhD in Computer Science, Post DBA in Transformation Management
Qualifications:

PhD, Post DBA (Doctor of Business Administration)
Work History:

20+ years (since I was 19!)
Current Job:

Research Fellow in the field of Smart Cities

About Me

Since I was 19, I started to put computer science into practice for progress.
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Dr. Armin Shams is Senior Member of IEEE and a multidisciplinary practitioner, applied researcher and lecturer with over twenty years in business (inc. smart cities, accelerators, the digital services and commerce and financial sector, since he was 19) and also in academia. Armin has won over 350,000 dollars of grants and applied research budget for his PhD and postdoctoral applied research in Europe and the Middle East.

He has been an ACM ICPC World Finalist in 2001 and a winner of Khwarizmi Award for Artificial Intelligence research, in 1997. He has improved the Chebyshev’s Theorem about Bertrand’s Conjecture concerning the gaps between primes (UMJ, 59, 10, in 2007).
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Armin’s post-docs have been in the fields of Cloud Service Analytics, Digital Transformation and brain studies. His industrial practices mainly fall into his novel multidisciplinary intelligent Total Change Management framework. Armin has provided consultation and applied research service to the managers/contractors of companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Intel and EMC. He serves on the editorial boards and program committees of a number of journals and conferences such as the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Science (CLOSER).

Holistic and intelligent Change Management is ‘key’ to an advanced Brain-driven Economy, paving the way towards organizationally more optimal digital democracies. Armin got a professorial fellow grant on this and three volumes on the novel TCM (Total Change Management) discipline has been authored.
My Typical Day

Trying to enhance what the clients of our RI&D services, provide to their clients !
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Trying to enhance what the clients of our RI&D (Research, Innovation and Development) services provide to their clients, we use computer science and technology, and other fields such as business and management to come up with solutions.

This can range from:
Small enhancements for a particular client case, to:
Models and frameworks used by a group of clients (and the wider community)

Now my focus is on smart cities. Trying to innovate the future sustainable and smart European Cities, with examples being implemented in Limerick (Ireland) and Trondheim (Norway).

This Europe-wide programme is called: +CitycChange (pronounced: positive city exchange).

www.cityxchange.eu
What I'd do with the prize money

Adding it to the prize of next year!

My Interview
- How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
  
  I am "change" !
  
  What did you want to be after you left school?
  
  To become "Change" for society, making it better
  
  Were you ever in trouble at school?
  
  Not much :)
  
  Who is your favourite singer or band?
  
  Us, singing the song of "change" together for the society
  
  What's your favourite food?
  
  Italian food especially Pizza, among the others!
  
  What is the most fun thing you've done?
  
  Going to theme parks such as Alton Towers with my family, improving a famous math theorem, ...
  
  If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
  
  Change, Change, Change
  
  Tell us a joke.
  
  Traditional Democracy !!! (a joke you will understand and laugh at when you see the digital super-democracies of future! Good news: our building Smart Cities help with achieving that future.)