Curriculum Vitae

Personal information:
Name: MehranVazirinia***
Date of birth: May10, 1980
Previous address: Tokyo to, Higashi Murayama shi, Hagiyama cho, 4-9-12, Takasago Gakusei
kaikan, 402, Japan
Current address: No. 24, Hossein Fatemi Alley, Ayat Street, Tehran, Iran
Phone Number: +989199935812
Email: mehran_vaziri59@yahoo.com , mehran2107@gmail.com

Education:
B.S. Qaemshahr Islamic Azad University, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy and Plant Breeding,
February 2000 – July 2005.
Thesis Title: General Information of Mango.
M.S. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Agricultural Engineering, International
Environmental and Agricultural Science, April 2007 – March 2009.
Thesis Title: Characterization of Aromatic Rice Cultivars in Iran and Surrounding Countries.

PhD. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Agricultural Engineering, Biological

Production Science, April 2009 – September 2013.
Thesis Title: Genetic Diversities for Agronomic and Aroma Traits of Rice Varieties in Iran and
Surrounding Regions.
List of some passed courses: Advanced Plant Functional Morphology, Advanced Applied
Microbiology, Advanced Cellular Biotechnology, Advanced Management and Economics of
Agriculture.

Research interest:
Machine learning modeling, Water flow and solute transport in porous medium, Temporal and
spatial variation of soil physical and chemical characteristics, Rice breeding for physiological
characteristics, Gene transfer by gene gun and other biotechnology methods, Agricultural
Machinery.
Research skills:
Numerical and machine learning methods, ANN and ANFIS models, Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge
about primer design and Gene sequencing, PCR and gel electrophoresis, Gas chromatography-
mass spectrometry (GC-MS).

Computer skills:
Statistical procedures with SPSS software, Microsoft office, Matlab programing environment:
Fuzzy logic toolbox, ANN and ANFIS toolboxes, Curve fitting toolbox.

Language skills:
Persian: Native

English: reading: Advance, writing: advance, speaking: advance.

German: reading: intermediate, writing: intermediate, speaking: elementary.

Japanese: reading: elementary, writing: elementary, speaking: intermediate.

TOEFL Course, Temple University Japan Campus, Tokyo, 2006.

Deutsche Zertifikat, Goethe Institute Tehran, 2005.

Japanese Course, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and Fuchu International
Saloon, Tokyo.

Publications:
 Journal publications:

1) Mehran Vazirzanjani, Wakil Ahmad Sarhadi, Jin Jin Nwe, Mozhgan Khalaj
Amirhosseini, Roeurn Siranet, Nguyen Quoc Trung, Shinya Kawai and Yutaka Hirata.
2011. Characterization of aromatic rice cultivars from Iran and surrounding regions
for aroma and agronomic traits. Sabrao Journal of Breeding and Genetics. 43 (1): 15-
26. Published.

2) Wakil Ahmad Sarhadi, Nguyen Loc Hien, Mehran Zanjani, Wahida, Yosofzai, Tadashi,
Yoshihashi and Yutaka Hirata. 2008. Comparative analyses for aroma and agronomic
 traits of native rice cultivars from central Asia. Journal of Crop Science and
Biotechnology. 11(1): 17-22. Published.

3) Mehran Vazirzanjani, Shinya Kawai, Hossein Mardani Korrani, Asma Ossivand and
Taiichiro Ookawa. 2018. Analysis of genetic diversity of rice cultivars in Iran and
surrounding countries by using simple sequence repeat (SSR) marker. African Journal
of Agricultural Research. 12(36): 2765-2772. Published.

4) Taiichiro Ookawa, Kazuya Inoue, Makuto Matsuoka, Takeshi Ebitani, Takeshi Takarada,
Toshio Yamamoto, Tadamasa Ueda, Tadashi Yokohama, Chisato Sugiyama, Satoshi
Nakaba, Ryo Funada, Hiroshi Kato, Motoki Kanekatsu, Koki Toyoda, Takeshi
Motobayashi, Mehran Vazirzanjani, Seisyu Tojo and Tadashi Hirasawa. 2014. Increased
lodging resistance in long-culm, low-lignin gh2 rice for improved feed and bioenergy
production. Scientific Reports, Nature Group Publication. 4: 6567. Published.

5) Yin Yin New, Khin Thida Myint, Yuya Mochizuki, Mehran Vazirzanjani, Kouji Okayasu,
Sakae Suzuki, Isao Ogiwara. 2014. Invitro regeneration through direct shoot
organogenesis in Honey Orange (Citrus Tangerina). Plant Biotechnology. 31: 341-344.
Published.

6) Samaneh Amanabadi, Mohammad Hossien Mohammadi, Mohammad Hassan

Masihabadi. Mehran Vazirinia. 2018. Predicting Continuous Form of Soil Water
Characteristics Curve with Limited Particle Size Distribution Data. Water SA. 44 (3): 428
- 435. Published.

7) Samaneh Amanabadi, Mehran Vazirinia, Harry Vereecken, Keyvan Asefpour, and

Mohammad Hossein Mohammadi. 2019. Comparison of statistical, numerical and
machine learning pedo-transfer functions of water retention curve with particle size
distribution data. Water Research Resource. Eurasian Soil Science. 52 (12): 1555 – 1571.

 International Conferences:

1) Mehran Vazirzanjani, Wakil Ahmad Sarhadi, Jin Jin Nwe, Mozhgan Khalaj Amirhosseini,
Roeurn Siranet, Nguyen Quoc Trung, Shinya Kawai, Yutaka Hirata. Characterization of
aromatic rice cultivars from Iran and surrounding regions for aroma and agronomic traits.
International Journal of Arts and Sciences. November 2011. (Goettenheim, Germany).
  Domestic Conferences:

1) Genetic analysis of Iranian aromatic rice cultivars. Mehran Vazirzanjani, Chau Thi Anh Thy,
Yutaka Hirata. Japanese Society of Breeding. September 2009. (Hokkaido, Japan).

2) Characterization of Iran aromatic rice cultivars. Mehran Vazirzanjani, Wakil Ahmad,

Sarhadi, Yutaka Hirata. Japanese Society of Breeding. October 2008. (Shiga, Japan).

3) Characterization of Iranian rice cultivars in Iran and surrounding countries. Vazirzanjani

Mehran, Sarhadi Wakil Ahmad, Hirata Yutaka. ASIJ Annual Scientific Seminar. March 2010.
(Tokyo, Japan).

Work Experiences:

Officer, VFS Global/ GOOK Company, Tehran, Iran (October 2018 – Present)
Green wall design and installation, Iran (April 2020 – Present)
Research Assistant at Soil Science Department, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research
Branch, Tehran, Iran (December 2015 - July 2018)
Researcher at Laboratory of Crop Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,
Tokyo, Japan (October 2013 - September 2014)
Agronomy Expert, Issargaran-e Ghadir Company, Varamin, Iran (2005)

Participation in scientific events:

Joint Seminar in Utsunomiya University, Japan, September 2010.

Joint Seminar in Kamakura, Japan, October 2009.
Extra courses by professors from Cornell University at Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology, Japan, 2013.
Workshop by professors from Cornell University at Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology, Japan, 2011.
Workshop by professors from Alto University at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,
Japan, 2013.
Training program at National Genetic Institute Iran, Tehran, 2006.
Membership:
Member of Japanese Society of Breeding (2007 - 2010).
Member of Academic Society of Iranian in Japan (ASIJ) (2007 - present), Board member of ASIJ
(2011).
Member of Agricultural and Natural Resources Engineering Organization in Iran (2015- present)

Awards:

JASSO Scholarship, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, April 2008- March 2009.

Tonen General Scholarship, Tonen General Oil Company, April 2011- September 2013.

Referees:
1) Professor Taiichiro Ookawa, Laboratory of Crop Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology, Tokyo, Japan. Email: ookawa@cc.tuat.ac.jp
2) Professor Majid Azizi Arani, Department of Horticulture, College of Agriculture, Ferdowsi
University, Mashhad, Iran. Email: azizi@um.ac.ir
3) Professor Yoshiharu Fujii, Laboratory of Sustainable Bio-production Technology/Allelopathy,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo Japan. Email: yfujii@cc.tuat.ac.jp
4) Professor Sonoko Dorothea Bellingrath-Kimura, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape
Research, Müncheberg, Germany. Email: belks@zalf.de
5) Professor Ebrahim Pazira, Laboratory of Soil Science, Islamic Azad University, Science and
Research Branch, Tehran, Iran, Email: ebrahimpazira@gmail.com

***By virtue of the note under article 17 of the civil status code, my surname was changed to
“Vazirinia” from “Vazirzanjani”. (ID translation has been attached).