🔬 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