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Mohammad Arif Payenda

Overingeniør IT
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Email
arif.payenda@uia.no
Phone
+47 37 23 34 70
Office
C1024 (Jon Lilletuns vei 9, 4879 Grimstad, Norway)

Background and experience

I hold a Master's degree in Computer Science from South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi, India. I have many years of professional experience working with various organizations across multiple countries. Throughout my career, I have gained extensive experience in teaching and academia, delivering a wide range of courses, including Programming, Database Systems, Web Development, and Mathematics. 

Since August 2026: Senior Engineer, University of Agder (UiA), Norway

January 2025 – July 2026: Project Manager, University of Agder (UiA), Norway

June 2022 – December 2024: Assistant Professor, University of Agder (UiA), Norway

September 2020 – June 2022: Assistant Professor, Kabul University, Afghanistan

July 2020 – Jan 2021: Assistant Professor, Kateb University, Afghanistan

December 2019 – July 2020: Data Preparation Process (DPP) Officer, National Statistic & Information Authority (NSIA), Afghanistan

September 2015 – December 2019: Lecturer, Gawharshad University, Afghanistan

February 2018 – April 2019: Project coordinator/consultant, Ginger Web, New Delhi, India

Teaching

IKT203, IKT105

Research

Natural Language Processing, Data Analytics, Recommender Systems, Predictive Modeling, Social Network Analysis

Publications

  • Payenda, Mohammad Arif; Wang, Shuaishuai; Prinz, Andreas; Hussiny, Mohammad Ali & Jiang, Zhiyu (2025). Predicting Mooring Tensions of a Floating Wind Turbine Using Motion Sensors and Neural Networks. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS). ISSN 1742-6588. 3131. doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/3131/1/012032. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hussiny, Mohammad Ali; Payenda, Mohammad Arif & Øvrelid, Lilja (2024). PersianEmo: Enhancing Farsi-Dari Emotion Analysis with a Hybrid Transformer and Recurrent Neural Network Model. Proceedings of LREC. p. 257–263. Full text in Research Archive
  • Payenda, Mohammad Arif; Wang, Shuaishuai; Jiang, Zhiyu & Prinz, Andreas (2024). Prediction of mooring dynamics for a semi-submersible floating wind turbine with recurrent neural network models. Ocean Engineering. ISSN 0029-8018. 313(3). doi: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2024.119490. Full text in Research Archive
  • Payenda, Mohammad Arif; Vahidi, Abdul Razaq; Hussiny, Mohammad Ali; Prinz, Andreas & Øvrelid, Lilja (2024). PashtoEmo: Enhancing Text-Based Emotion Analysis in the Pashto Language Through Dataset Creation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN 0302-9743. 14763, p. 225–236. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-70242-6_22. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hussiny, Mohammad Ali; Payenda, Mohammad Arif & Vahidi, Abdul Razaq (2023). SentiDariPers: Sentiment Analysis of Dari-Persian Tweets Based on People’s Views and Opinion. In Valencia-Garcia, Rafael; Bucaram-Leverone, Martha; Cioppo-Morstadt, Javier Del; Vera-Lucio, Nestor & Centanaro-Quiroz, Pablo Humberto (Ed.), International Conference on Technologies and Innovation (CITI 2023). Springer. ISSN 9783031456817. p. 138–156. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-45682-4_11. Full text in Research Archive

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