Mahdi Cheraghchi (or "Mahdi Cheraghchi-Bashi-Astaneh" in its complete form!)
	Current Home Address: Chemin du Bois-de-Vaux 3 CH-1007 Lausanne Switzerland	Office: EPFL I&C - IIF - ALGO BC148 (Batiment BC) Station 14 CH-1015 Lausanne Switzerland
	Email: My preferred email address is my first name (which is mahdi) at my first name (same thing) dot ch. that I also check regularly.

• Research papers (and writings),
• My latest CV (postscript version).

I'm mainly interested in Theoretical Computer Science, or more specifically:

• Interconnections between coding theory and theoretical computer science,

• Derandomization and explicit constructions,

• Probabilistically Checkable Proofs and Hardness of Approximation.
  

However, I have worked on various other things as well; for example a long time ago I did a bit of image processing for my B.Sc. Project. My B.Sc. dissertation (in Persian, with an English abstract included) was about detection of human faces in color images.

You might also be interested in:

• My online calendar at Google: I'll try to keep it up to date, but I can't promise!
• My pages in social networks (Facebook, Orkut, Linkedin, Twitter).
• My favorite music,
• My shared files,
• and some random stuff.

The local time in Switzerland	Last Updated on May 2009
The local "date" in Iran is now  !! (Thanks to my old friend Mahmood for the conversion script.)