Projects - Soroush Mesforush

Selected course and implementation projects are organized by topic below. Linked titles open the corresponding repositories; secondary report or notebook links appear beneath them.

Deep Generative Models

Project	Summary
Projected Diffusion Planner for Kinodynamic Motion Planning	Combined learned denoising priors with optimization-based projection for safe differential-drive control.
Multimodal Prompt-Conditioned Story and Image Generation	Designed a transformer- and diffusion-based pipeline for prompt-conditioned story and image generation.
VAE-Based Medical Image Generator for Chest X-rays	Built a convolutional latent-variable model and evaluated both synthesis and reconstruction quality.
DCGAN for WikiArt Painting Generation	Implemented a DCGAN for visually plausible artwork generation and evaluated the resulting model with relevant metrics.

Detection, Estimation, and Wireless Communications

Project	Summary
Autocorrelation-Based Decentralized Sequential Detection of OFDM Signals in Cognitive Radios Report	Reviewed and implemented autocorrelation-based decentralized sequential detection of OFDM signals for cognitive-radio sensing.
Narrowband and Frequency-Selective Wireless Channels Report	Simulated detection in Rayleigh fading and frequency-selective channels, including diversity, water-filling, clipping, ZF, and MMSE equalization.
Base-Station and Multipath Wireless-Channel Simulation Report	Modeled Rayleigh fading, shadowing, outage probability, and wideband versus narrowband multipath channels.
Entropy Estimation, Average Code Length, and Huffman Coding Report	Estimated entropy and average code length for memoryless and Markov sources and implemented Huffman coding.
BPAM Error Rates Under Sampling Errors Report	Analyzed BPAM bit-error performance under pulse-shaping, AWGN, and sampling-timing errors.
ML and MAP Detectors for 4-PAM Report	Implemented and compared maximum-likelihood and MAP symbol detectors for 4-PAM over AWGN channels.
Sampling-Rate Conversion and Random-Signal Spectra Report	Studied upsampling, downsampling, correlation, and power-spectrum estimation for random signals.
Lowpass and Bandpass Equivalent Signals Report	Implemented lowpass and bandpass signal equivalents and examined baseband power and spectral behavior.
FM Radio Analysis with ADALM-PLUTO SDR Report	Used an ADALM-PLUTO software-defined radio to inspect FM radio and remote-control spectra.
Linear Digital Modulation: Implementation Report	Implemented M-PAM, M-PSK, and M-QAM links with pulse shaping and minimum-distance detection.
Linear Digital Modulation: Analysis	Analyzed Gray coding, phase offsets, delay effects, and minimum-distance decisions in digital modulation.

Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems

Project	Summary
Gradient Descent, Nonconvex Optimization, and SVMs Report	Implemented logistic regression, gradient methods, support-vector machines, and a genetic algorithm from first principles.
Decision Trees, Random Forests, and Metric Learning Report	Implemented ID3 decision trees, bagging, random forests, KNN, and several metric-learning methods.
MLPs, CNNs, and Transfer Learning Report	Implemented backpropagation, multilayer perceptrons, convolutional networks, normalization, dropout, and transfer learning.
Secretary Problem and Naive Bayes Classification Report	Studied the secretary problem and built a Naive Bayes classifier with maximum-likelihood estimation.
Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning Report	Implemented model-based and model-free reinforcement learning, including the Taxi problem and Q-learning.
Feature-Map Reconstruction and Object Detection in Video Report	Used AlexNet feature maps, HOG, Viola–Jones, and YOLOv3 for image reconstruction and video object detection.
Neural Network for Patch-Antenna Parameter Estimation Report	Generated a dataset and trained a Keras/TensorFlow model to estimate patch-antenna parameters.

Digital Signal Processing

Project	Summary
Sampling, Image Processing, and the 2D Fourier Transform Report	Simulated sampling-rate changes, audio processing, image processing, LTI systems, and the two-dimensional Fourier transform.
Analog Filters, Noise Removal, and Audio Filtering Report	Designed analog and digital filters for noise removal, Gaussian smoothing, audio filtering, and bleep censoring.
Signals and Their Properties Report	Used Wolfram Mathematica to analyze signal energy, transformations, sampling, and core signal properties.
Fourier Analysis and Discrete Convolution Report	Implemented discrete convolution and Fourier analysis and studied time- and frequency-domain signal behavior.
Fourier Methods for ECG and Telephone-Keypad Recognition Report	Applied Fourier and autocorrelation methods to ECG denoising, heart-rate estimation, spectrograms, and keypad-tone recognition.
Monotone Audio Filtering with an FIR Filter Report	Implemented real-time FIR-based monotone audio filtering using FFT-domain analysis.
FIR Filtering with a Circular Buffer Report	Implemented an FIR filter with a circular buffer and examined magnitude, phase, and white-noise responses.
Elliptic IIR Filtering Report	Implemented an elliptic IIR filter and explored echo systems and central-limit behavior in real-time DSP.

Probability, Networks, and Data Analysis

Project	Summary
Probability Distributions and Their Functions Notebook	Implemented PMFs, PDFs, CDFs, common probability distributions, and introductory data-analysis routines.
FIFA 2020 Data Analysis and Markov Chains Notebook	Analyzed the FIFA 2020 dataset with Q–Q plots, cross-correlation, linear regression, and Markov-chain models.
IP Headers, ARP, and DHCP Report	Inspected packet captures to analyze IP headers, time-to-live behavior, ARP, and DHCP transactions.
DNS and HTTP Protocol Analysis Report	Used Wireshark and nslookup to analyze DNS queries, HTTP exchanges, and associated IP-layer behavior.

RF, Electronics, Antennas, and Power Systems

Project	Summary
Linear Array of Turnstile Antennas Report	Modeled a linear array of turnstile antennas and evaluated array factor, directivity, and far-field behavior.
Voltage-Controlled Oscillator Report	Designed an RF CMOS LC-tank voltage-controlled oscillator with varactors and S-parameter analysis.
Phase-Locked Loop Report	Designed a phase-locked loop with differential-to-single-ended conversion, charge pump, and phase-frequency detector.
Transmission Tower and Load Distribution Report	Modeled a 400 kV transmission tower and load distribution, including N−1 contingency analysis in PowerWorld.
Three-Stage BJT Amplifier Report	Designed and simulated a three-stage BJT amplifier in PSpice, including gain and output-swing analysis.
Power Supply for a Three-Stage BJT Amplifier Report	Designed and simulated a power supply for a three-stage BJT amplifier in PSpice.

Computer Systems and Architecture

Project	Summary
Graphical Pentago Game in C Flowchart	Built a graphical Pentago implementation in C using a graphics library and documented the control flow.
UT-KALA Online Shop in C	Built a simplified online-shop system in C using linked lists and structured data types.
Restoring Divider in Verilog Datapath & Controller	Implemented a restoring/non-restoring divider in Verilog with a separated datapath and controller.
MIPS Processor in Verilog Report	Implemented a MIPS processor in Verilog and verified its datapath and instruction execution.
Simplified ARM Processor in Verilog Report	Implemented a simplified ARM processor in Verilog and verified the processor architecture.
Pipelined MIPS Processor in Verilog Report	Implemented a pipelined MIPS processor in Verilog, including staged datapath control.