Personal Profile

I received the BSc and MSc degrees, both in electrical engineering from Khaje Nasir (KN) Toosi University of Technology and Tarbiat Modarres University in Tehran, Iran in 2003 and 2005, respectively. In 2008, I received the PhD degree from Cardiff University, UK under supervision of Dr Saeid Sanei and Prof Jonathon Chambers in Biomedical Signal Processing.

From September 2007 to September 2009, I worked for Prof Chris Miall in the Predictive Sensory Motor Lab, University of Birmingham as a postdoctoral research fellow. My research interests in Birmingham included Motor Control and brain computer interfacing. I enjoyed collaborating with Dr Peter Praamstra in Birmingham.

In Summer 2009, I held a visiting scholar position at Prof Lee Miller's Limb Motor Control Lab at Northwestern University in Chicago, USA.

I joined Dr Andrew Jackson's lab at the Institute of Neuroscience in Newcatle in October 2009 and my current research focus is Optimal Feedback Control Theory for Brain Machine Interface.

I have been awarded the Best Paper (poster) Award in the 3rd BCI Workshop, Graz, Austria, Sep. 2006 for a paper on "STF decomposition of EEG potentials for BCI applications." I received the Overseas Research Students Award from Cardiff University and the prestigious David Douglas Award from South Wales Institute of Engineers in 2006. My PhD was supported by a Leverhulme Trust research grant “hybrid STF factorization-blind source separation approach for BCI.”

Presentations

EMG Prediction from Motor Cortical Recordings in the State-Space, Birmingham Sensorimotor Control Meeting, November 2009.
Constrained Kalman Filters for BMI, Newcastle, August 2009.
Approcimate Kalman Filters for BMI, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, July 2009.
UK BCI Meeting, ssMRP based BCI, Birmingham, March 2009.
ssMRP based BCI, Cambridge Human Sensorimotor Control Meeting, November 2008.

Professional Service

  • Chair
    • Workshops and Tutorials Chair, IEEE ISBME 2009, Bangkok, Thailand, December, 2009 
  • Programme Commitee Member 
  • Reviewer:
    • IEEE TBME, TNSRE, SPL, TBCAS
    • Physiological Measurements
    • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
    • Computers in Medicine and Biology
    • Neurocomputing
    • Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience