I am an associate director of Artificial Intelligence at the Praxis Spinal Cord Institute and adjunct professor at Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine at University of British Columbia. I obtained my PhD in biostatistics from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2008. During my PhD, I was a fellow visitor at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy in 2003, and at Dalhousie University in 2006-2007. Upon completion of my PhD, I continued my work at Dalhousie University as a postdoctoral fellow and later completed second postdoctoral training at University of British Columbia both in neuroscience.
My core area of interest is the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in neuroscience. My long-standing collaborations with physicians and researchers have resulted in 3 books and more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed biostatistics, machine learning, and medical journals.
I hope to transform the findings from our previous and ongoing research in neuroscience, into practical applications by developing software. The goal is to make these valuable results accessible to everyone in society. To accomplish this, I lead a team of machine learning experts and biostatisticians focused on developing and applying AI techniques and statistical methods to improve the quality of life of people with spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer’s diseases.
