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- Projects
- ❓ BEACON Q (Backend GitHub, App Store, Play Store): feature-packed quiz platform for self-paced learning. Core functionality includes an adaptive difficulty system for its activities, block-based coding questions, review recommendations based on spaced-repetition, and recall analysis for exam preparation, as well as a vast set of gamification features.
- 💻 Stack: Flutter (Dart), Node.js (Express, TypeScript), MongoDB, Firebase Admin & Messaging, Docker
- 🔒 GridLock (App Store): visual seating arrangement for exams. The assignment engine applies the user's constraints for an automatic assignment of students to available seats in the exam room. Other utilities include multi-phase timers, on-screen instructions, attendance tracking, auditing and student list import from CSV/JSON.
- 💻 Stack: SwiftUI (Swift), Apple Foundation Models
- 📱 DartBlock (GitHub, pub.dev, demo): block-based programming framework with mobile first UI/UX design. Supports custom functions, recursion, exception-throwing, automatic code evaluation, difficulty adjustment and conversion to Java.
- 💻 Stack: Flutter (Dart)
- 📓 Sketchnoting (GitHub): ML-infused note-taking app for iPad. Alongside handwriting and sketch recognition, Sketchnoting integrates semantic annotations for the user's notes, as well as a supercharged search combining lexical search, semantic search, visual search with force-directed graph visualization and question-answering.
- 💻 Stack: UIKit (Swift), Google ML Kit
- 📷 Photo Classifier (Backend GitHub, Frontend GitHub): experimentation with microservice-based archiecture. The backend features multiple services, including a core FastAPI REST server, a separate FastAPI server handling image classification tasks, an S3 object store (Garage) holding images and a PostgreSQL database, all containerized with Docker. The frontend is built with Angular, featuring user authentication (JWT) and role-based access (admin).
- 💻 Stack: FastAPI (Python), PostgreSQL, Garage (S3), Docker, Angular (TypeScript)
- 🧑🎓 Yactul (App Store): lightweight, offline quiz app for self-paced learning. Supports multiple question types, a coaching mode based on spaced-repetition, as well as multimedia learning resources.
- 💻 Stack: Xamarin.Forms (C#)
- 😺 Kitty - Discord Bot (GitHub): multi-purpose bot for Discord. Features include extensive logging, user customization and moderation. Its MusicBrainz API integration enables a music profile feature, allowing users to highlight their favorite songs for a given artist, resulting in a banner rendered by the bot.
- 💻 Stack: Java, sqlite
- ❓ BEACON Q (Backend GitHub, App Store, Play Store): feature-packed quiz platform for self-paced learning. Core functionality includes an adaptive difficulty system for its activities, block-based coding questions, review recommendations based on spaced-repetition, and recall analysis for exam preparation, as well as a vast set of gamification features.
- Publications
- A. ATASHPENDAR. "BEACON Q: Encouraging Regular Self-Testing via a Personalized and Gamified Quiz App." Unpublished doctoral thesis, Unilu - University of Luxembourg [Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine], Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 2025.
Jury: Jury: S. ROTHKUGEL (Promotor), D. ZAMPUNIERIS (Promotor), R. REUTER (Promotor), S. FRYSINGER (Promotor), and S. PAEK (Promotor). (permalink, PDF) - Atashpendar, Aryobarzan, and Steffen Rothkugel. "Block-based programming for mobile with conventional exceptions and automatic evaluation." In Proceedings of the 2024 on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education V. 1, pp. 597-603. 2024. (permalink, PDF)
- Sheykhmohammadi, Nazanin, Aryobarzan Atashpendar, and Denis Zampunieris. "High-fidelity simulation pre-briefing with digital quizzes: Using INACSL standards for improving effectiveness." In 16th the International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2024). SciTePress, 2024. (permalink, PDF)
- Atashpendar, Aryobarzan, and Steffen Rothkugel. "Difficulty-Adjusted Quizzes: An Effectiveness Analysis." In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2023. (permalink)
- Atashpendar, Aryobarzan, and Steffen Rothkugel. "Improving Long-Term Retention through Personalized Recall Testing and Immediate Feedback." In 2023 11th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET), pp. 277-281. IEEE, 2023. (permalink)
- Atashpendar, Aryobarzan, Christian Grévisse, Jean Botev, and Steffen Rothkugel. "Semantic and Interactive Search in an Advanced Note-Taking App for Learning Material." In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 13-29. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. (permalink)
- (⭐ Best Paper) Atashpendar, Aryobarzan, Christian Grévisse, and Steffen Rothkugel. "Enhanced sketchnoting through semantic integration of learning material." In International Conference on Applied Informatics, pp. 340-353. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. (permalink)
- A. ATASHPENDAR. "BEACON Q: Encouraging Regular Self-Testing via a Personalized and Gamified Quiz App." Unpublished doctoral thesis, Unilu - University of Luxembourg [Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine], Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 2025.
- Certifications