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 was with Dr Andrew Jackson's lab at the Institute of Neuroscience in Newcatle between October 2009 and June 2012 and my research focus is Optimal Feedback Control for Brain Machine Interface.


As of June 2012, I am with Touch Bionics as a Senior Algorithm Engineer.

I received 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.”

Selected Talkes

  • Cortical control of task-specific muscle synergies, Human Sensorimotor Control Meeting, Imperial College London, June 2011.
  • The case for and against biomimetic Brain Machine Interface, University of Surrey, June 2011.
  • Biomimetic and biofeedback approaches in Brain Machine Interface, ATR, Kyoto, Japan, September 2010.
  • EMG Prediction from Motor Cortical Recordings in the State-Space, Birmingham Sensorimotor Control Meeting, November 2009.
  • Constrained Kalman Filters for BMI, Newcastle University, August 2009.
  • Approximate 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 
  • Technical Programme Committee Member
    • APSIPA ASC 2011, Xi'an, China, October 2011. 
    • DSP 2011, Corfu, Greece, July 2011
    • CCMB 2011, Paris, France, April 2011
    • BIOMED 2010, Innsbruk, Austria, Februray 2010
    • DSP 2009, Santorini, Greece, July 2009

  • Reviewer:
    • IEEE TBME, TNSRE, SPL, TBCAS
    • Physiological Measurements
    • J. Neural Engineering
    • Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
    • Computers in Medicine and Biology
    • Neurocomputing
    • Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience