Research Experience
Research Assistant at Mer Lab
📍 University of Ottawa | Computational Biology & Machine Learning
Supervised by: Dr. Arvind Mer
- Text-Mining-Based Feature Selection for Anticancer Drug Response Prediction
- Conducting research on computational methods for drug discovery.
May 2023 – Present
Research Assistant at IPM – Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences
📍 School of Computer Science
Supervised by: Dara Rahmati & Amirhosein Hadian
- Estimating Stochastic Model Parameters (Drift-Diffusion) Using Deep Learning Approaches
- First Course in Machine Learning: Chapters on Dimension Reduction & Feature Selection.
- Hardware Acceleration of biologically-inspired neural networks (Bio-SFA & Bio-NICA).
- Proposed a New Distributed Algorithm for the Minimum Dominating Set Problem .
Aug 2020 – Jul 2024
Research Assistant & Developer at CMP Lab
📍 Computational & Mathematical Psychology Laboratory
Supervised by: Jamal Amani Rad & Amirhosein Hadian
- Developed Psychological Tasks for Cognitive Science Research:
- Motion Discriminator Task
- Stereotypical Job Beliefs Task
- Temporal Bisection Task
- Wisconsin Sorting Card Task
Jan 2021 – 2023