Samaneh was a Research Scholar in Mathematics and an Adjunct Researcher in Computer Science at Brigham Young University. She was born in Mashhad, Iran. She received her B.S in Applied Mathematics and contined to earn her Master’s degree in Pure Mathematics from the Khayyam University of Higher Education, Mashhad. She moved to Malaysia to do her Ph.D. at the University of Malaya.

She completed her Ph.D. in the field of Complex Analysis, specializing in Geometric Function Theory, which she defended in 2014. During her Ph.D. she derived new formulas based on Faber polynomials to expand the series of various classes of bi-univalent functions to determine an upper bound for the coefficients of their functions. She collaborated with some of the professors in the field of Complex and Harmonic Analysis.

In addition to teaching, she has taught various courses of Mathematics and Statistics at several universities in Iran as well as at the University of Malaya. She was a member of rowing and baseball teams in Malaysia. In her free time, she enjoys running, hiking, rowing and dancing.