Mohammadali Masjedi (Mo · MassJedi) — Classical Guitarist, Teacher & Composer · Developer

(00) — The worlds of Mo

Many sides, one person.

A studio, a lab, a track, a stage, a page — pick a door.

— About

I refuse to fit in one box.

Mo

— Mo

I'm Mohammadali “Mo” Masjedi — from Shiraz, now in the Harz mountains of Germany.

By trade I'm a software engineer working in data analytics; by calling, an art & culture manager. I directed Shiraz Art House, an independent home for artists in Shiraz, and spent years teaching the classical guitar — chasing the clarity of a single well-played phrase or a single quatrain of Khayyám. Different rooms, one mind.

Today that same patience goes into engineering: the slow, honest work of getting a battery model to tell the truth. I'm a project manager by training too, and — first and always — a guitarist, teacher and composer. The thread through all of it is one: curiosity, craft, and building things that bring people together. Learn to live, live to learn.

The causes I give my time to are simple: education, children, arts & culture, and animals — the same four threads that run through my work on Sahar (free education for kids who are out of school) and through two cats who run my household.

2003 →Performing & teaching classical guitar in Shiraz.
2017 → 2019Directed Shiraz Art House as its managing director; later operated by others.
2012 → 2022A decade in software — engineering & data analytics roles.
2022 →Master's research on battery life at TU Clausthal, Germany.
AlwaysGuitar, poetry, training, and the cats.

I came to research the long way — a decade of software work as an engineer, data analyst and project manager taught me to ship. Now, as a master's researcher at TU Clausthal, I teach transformers to predict a lithium-ion battery's lifetime from only its earliest cycles — turning a year of testing into a decision in weeks. I like research that leaves the lab and becomes a tool.

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model architectures benchmarked

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lithium-ion cells analyzed

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random seeds for rigor

Product · Live demo Demo · synthetic data

CellSight

An early-life battery health & remaining-useful-life dashboard — turning model predictions into fleet decisions in a single self-contained page. Demo runs on synthetic data.

What is this: A clickable mock-up: a table of battery cells and a chart of their forecast health, built to show how the idea would look as a product. It is not connected to real battery data.
Why it matters: It's the shape of a decision tool that early battery-life prediction could power — spot a weak cell while there's still time to act, instead of waiting for it to visibly fail.

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Research · M.Sc. thesis

Battery Lifetime Prediction

Early-cycle remaining-useful-life prediction with deep learning — my M.Sc. thesis in progress. Built with PyTorch; methods and results will follow after the defence.

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TU Clausthal · 2026

Engineering · Instrumentation

Mechanical Testing & DAQ

A hands-on background in mechanical testing, measurement and instrumentation — friction-torque & burst experiments and LabVIEW / NI data-acquisition automation.

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Background

PythonPyTorchDeep LearningTransformersTime-SeriesNumPyPandasMatplotlib PythonPyTorchDeep LearningTransformersTime-SeriesNumPyPandasMatplotlib

scikit-learnStatisticsLaTeXGit & GitHubLinux / SSHData VizLabVIEWHTML · CSS · JS scikit-learnStatisticsLaTeXGit & GitHubLinux / SSHData VizLabVIEWHTML · CSS · JS

A master's thesis and a small portfolio of papers, all circling one question: how early can we tell what a system will become? Most are battery prognostics; a few reach toward how people learn.

Master's thesis · TU Clausthal

Early-Cycle Battery Lifetime Prediction

My M.Sc. thesis in progress at TU Clausthal — predicting a lithium-ion cell's remaining useful life from only its earliest cycles. Methods and results will be shared after the defence.

M.Sc. thesis · battery RUL · time-series ML

Battery & time-series prognostics

Several papers on battery and time-series prognostics are in preparation. Each will appear here — with its details — once it is published.

Learning & understanding

Work on how people learn and think alongside AI is also in preparation, and will follow once it is public.

A work in progress — most of this research is still unpublished. Details will appear here as each paper becomes public.

Creativity is the other half of engineering — paintings, sketches, photographs, experiments.

Former director and managing director of an independent house for art in Shiraz, Iran.

Shiraz Art House (خانهٔ هنر شیراز) was an independent cultural space in Shiraz, Iran — a gallery, a stage for music and theatre, a café and a bookshop under one roof, with room for cinema and visual art. It existed to give independent and emerging artists a place to make and show their work, and to bring people together around culture.

I directed the house as its managing director from 2017 to 2019. We ran a sustained programme across music, theatre, cinema and visual art, with many partners and recurring projects. For me it was never just a building; it was an open house for independent artists. It was later operated by others.

Beyond the house itself, I've been a patron of independent cinema and festivals — including the Spring Festival (جشنواره بهارهٔ خانهٔ هنر شیراز), which ran under the house's management, and quiet backing that let at least one independent filmmaker's project get made. Not a filmmaking career of my own — just an open door for other people's films.

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Gallery

Exhibitions for established and emerging artists.

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Stage

Live music, theatre and performance.

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Café & Books

A place to meet, read and talk.

@khanehonarshiraz ↗

A respectful archive of the cultural life around Khaneh Honar — its cinema nights, art and music — as remembered history.

This archive gathers the documented cultural history of the Khaneh Honar art centre in Shiraz: a place where, over many years, people came together for cinema nights, exhibitions and live music. It is offered here as cultural memory — a record of programmes and evenings that brought a community around art.

The aim is simple and gentle: to remember the events themselves — the films screened, the works shown, the music played — and the spirit of an independent space for the arts. Nothing here is a claim about ownership or any disputed matter; it is only a record of cultural activity, kept with care.

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Cinema nights

Evenings of film and conversation — screenings that gathered people around the moving image.

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Art & exhibitions

Shows of painting and visual art — a wall and a room for emerging and established artists alike.

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Music evenings

Live music under one roof — quiet concerts and shared performances among friends of the arts.

Gallery coming soon — images will be added only when they are original or cleared for sharing.

Coming soon — this archive is being prepared with care.

From classical guitar to the recited word.

I'm a classical guitarist, teacher and composer, and have played since 2003. My playing earned first place at Iran's National Art Olympiad in Music (2012) and second at the National Guitar Festival (2010), and I taught at the Forough Music Academy in Shiraz.

As a composer, I perform my own pieces too — including an underground concert deep in the Rosenhöfer mine workings of the Harz, featured by Harzer Panorama am Sonntag in 2025. Years earlier, at Shiraz Art House, I performed in a recital of Johann Kaspar Mertz's music.

Much of what I play is bound to Persian poetry — the quatrains of Omar Khayyám and others — where the guitar and the spoken word meet. It is the same love of sound and meaning that runs through everything I make.

Live in concert — Romance, Milonga & Mey for classical guitar · Clausthal-Zellerfeld, November 2023. Tap any photo to enlarge.

Watch — classical guitar, from my channel @MohammadaliMasjediGuitar:

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Much of this work is shared.

Neda Aryana — architect and a member of Shiraz Art House's board — was one of its driving organisers. Together we built a platform for young artists; we believe in art that opens minds and brings people together.

Conversations, features and mentions.

A growing record of interviews and coverage — both interviews I have given, and conversations I have led with other artists.

Harzer Panorama am Sonntag — 14 September 2025: featured as the guitarist performing my own compositions underground in the Rosenhöfer Kehrradstube, Clausthal-Zellerfeld.
Mehr News Agency — 2010: second place (classical) at the Fars Province Ensemble Music Festival, with the Shiraz Classical Guitar Duet.

Humanity, freedom of expression, and peace.

Across art and engineering, the same values hold: respect for human dignity, the freedom to create and to speak, and a belief that culture can build bridges where politics builds walls. The work is hopeful by choice.

Training is where I sharpen the mind by pushing the body. Consistency over intensity, every week.

Discipline Show up The session you do beats the perfect one you skip.

Rhythm Every week Consistency over intensity — a steady, repeatable habit.

Balance Mind & body A clear head is trained the same way as a strong body.

“The body achieves what the mind believes.”

Leading is a craft of its own — clarity, trust, and turning a group of people into a team with a direction. A few principles I lead by:

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Clarity first

People move fast when they know exactly where “done” is.

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Trust by default

Hire smart people, give them room, remove their blockers.

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Decide, then learn

A good decision today beats a perfect one too late.

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Credit out, blame in

Wins belong to the team; the misses are on the lead.

Between the equation and the ember, I keep a small room for words — a few lines of my own, in two languages.

Between the equation and the ember,

I keep a small room for words —

where numbers learn to breathe,

and silence finally rhymes.

An original verse — more of my poems will join it here.

میان معادله و آتش،

اتاقی کوچک برای واژه‌ها نگه می‌دارم —

جایی که اعداد نفس کشیدن می‌آموزند،

و سکوت، سرانجام، قافیه می‌شود.

سروده‌ای از خودم — شعرهای دیگرم کم‌کم به آن می‌پیوندند.

Memo & Jupiter 🐾

Memo is my resident quality-assurance team — approves of naps, sunlit windowsills, and absolutely none of my deadlines. And Jupiter — my Jupi — who I lost in 2026 and still miss every single day.

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Memo Reviews every line of code by sitting on the keyboard — and signs off on the day only once the lights are low.

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Jupiter — “Jupi” In loving memory · 2026 Gravitational. He ruled the warmest lap in the room and watched over the whole home from the highest shelf. Forever my little planet.

Curiosities

Artificial Intelligence Energy & Batteries Painting & Making Training & Sport Poetry & Language German (A1, in progress) Knowledge Management Coffee & Conversation

Now · June 2026

Finishing my M.Sc. thesis at TU Clausthal.
Building & refining CellSight.
Learning German — chasing A1 this autumn.
Painting more, writing more, training more.

Carrying poems and ideas across Persian, English and German — a small, careful practice.

Daricheh (داریچه — “a little window”) will gather my own translation work: bringing Persian poetry toward English and German, and ideas the other way. Each piece will name its source and translator clearly, and only original or freely shareable texts will live here.

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Persian → English

Quatrains and short poems carried into English, line by line, with the original beside them.

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Persian → German

A slower bridge into German — a language I am still learning, one careful verse at a time.

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Notes on translation

Short notes on the choices behind each piece — what a word carries, and what gets lost.

Coming soon — the first windows are being prepared.

— Follow the journey

Come along for the ride

I share the music, the research and the making as it happens — most of it on YouTube. Subscribe, and follow the journey.

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— Support the work

Chip in, if you'd like

Music, research and the making happen mostly on my own time. If any of it is worth something to you, a small contribution helps keep it going — no pressure, ever.

Part of what this supports is my work on Sahar — free education for out-of-school children. I'm not a registered charity, so this isn't a tax-deductible donation — it's just supporting the time I put into building it.

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— Contact

Let’s make something across the lines.

Research, art, a project, or just a good conversation — my inbox is open.

mohammadalimasjedi@gmail.com

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One mind, many lives.

Many sides, one person.

Engineer

Research

Athlete

Manager

Poet

The Human

Shiraz Art House

Music & Voice

I refuse to fit in one box.

Intelligence, applied.

CellSight

Battery Lifetime Prediction

Mechanical Testing & DAQ

Teaching machines to read time.

Early-Cycle Battery Lifetime Prediction

Where logic loosens its tie.

A home for art.

Gallery

Stage

Café & Books

A cultural history, kept with care.

Cinema nights

Art & exhibitions

Music evenings

From the string to the word.

Good work is never made alone.

Conversations & coverage.

Humanity, freedom, and peace.

Discipline is a daily practice.

Scattered effort into shared momentum.