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Abed Khorasani Faculty member of Neuroscience Research Center Kerman University of Medical Science, Kerman, Iran. Curriculum Vitae Objective abedkh98@gmail.com, a.khorasani@kmu.ac.ir, Phone number: 00989133938649 I am very interested in implementation of closed loop restorative technologies with potential for near-term use in human subjects. My focus in the field of neural engineering is to translate neural interfaces developed in the research laboratories into clinical products by (1) implementing low-power adaptive signal processing techniques, (2) using novel artifact removal algorithms and (3) combining brain-controlled neural interfaces with sensory-driven robust controllers. I am passionate about cooperating with the group of experts in computer science, bio-material and medicine to build a novel brain machine interface technology that efficiently works in different real-world scenarios and conditions. Education Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran Ph.D in Electrical Engineering- Bioelectric GPA: 18.06/20 Sep 2013 —Aug 2018 Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran M.Sc in Biomedical Engineering- Bioelectric GPA: 16.95/20 Sep 2009 —July 2012 University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran B.Sc in Electrical Engineering- Electronics GPA: 17.38/20 Sep 2004 —Sep 2009 Professional Experience Assistant Professor —Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran Nov 2018 — Present  Design of neural activity control system by combining BCI technique with reward area stimulation  Design of a fully implantable Local Field Potential (LFP)-based neural interface for movement restoration Research Fellow —University of Washington, Seattle, USA Feb 2017 — March 2018  Advisor: Dr. Chet Moritz  Controlled spinal cord stimulation with cortical commands to reanimate movement after spinal cord injury  Implemented brain-spinal cord rehabilitative system in FPGA-based implantable hardware  Developed online noise cancellation filters for brain signals  Analyzed quality of biocompatible glassy carbon microelectrode arrays in recording cortical activity Engineering Technician— Fankavan Aral, Tehran, Iran April 2016 — Jan 2017  Advisor: Dr. Amir Fassih  Designed and built an integrated railway safety monitoring system  Engineered wireless monitoring of safety critical parameters of train wagons including axle temperatures, disk temperatures, input-output power transformers and electrical chargers  Simulated continuous-wave radar for closed loop cruise control of cars in Simulink Research Scientist —Neural Engineering Laboratory, Tehran, Iran Sep 2013 —Jan 2017  Advisor: Dr. Mohammad Reza Daliri  Controlled robotic arm in real-time using intracortical motor cortex signals  Designed and constructed a conditioning chamber for behavioral experiments in rodents  Developed an automatic detection of ALS, Parkinson and Huntington diseases using Hidden Markov Models  Designed, built and tested a real-time vital signs tele-monitoring system for spinal-cord injured patients  Simulated fetal ECG extractor on FPGA simulator Last update: 04/07/2020 A. Khorasani, CV, Page 1 Research Scientist — Iran Neural Technology Center, Tehran, Iran Sep 2010 —July 2012  Advisor: Dr. Abbas Erfanian  Restored walking movement in animals with intramuscular functional electrical stimulation  Designed and implemented an online closed-loop control system for multi-channel intramuscular stimulation Honors and Awards         Research grant from University of Washington Travel grant for 2017 Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society from Cognitive Sciences and Technologies Council of Iran (CSTC) Project grant from CSTC of Iran for a neuroscience project about brain control of external devices Graduation with rank 2 from University of Kerman in Electrical Engineering Diversity fellowship from Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) for presentation in Toyama, Japan Diversity fellowship from Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM) for presentation in Dubrovnik, Croatia National institute for medical research development (Nimad) Grant for designing a miniaturized implantable neural interface to treat spinal cord injury Best PhD Thesis award in neuroscience in 2019 at basic and clinical neuroscience congress, Tehran, Iran Research Interests Neural Engineering: brain-machine interfaces; neural control of movement; hardware implementation of closed-loop neural interfaces; adaptive neural interfaces; multidimensional bio-signal processing Skills and Abilities Engineering Software: MATLAB, LabVIEW, SIMULINK, Altium Designer, EAGLE, Pspice, Proteus, Code Vision, AVR, Arduino, ActiveHDL, CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Neural Recording/Stimulation and Behavioral Systems: Blackrock Microsystems, Multichannel Systems, Tucker-Davis Technologies, A-M Systems, Med Associates Programming Languages: MATLAB, C, C++, Python Languages: English (Fluent), Persian (Native) Publications Journal papers  Khorasani A, Samejima S, Boissenin A, Smith JR, Shalchyan V, Daliri MR, Moritz CT. (2019) Cortical-local field potential control of epidural spinal stimulation for restoring forelimb movement after spinal cord injury”. Submitted to Nature Machine Intelligence.  Ahmadi A, Khorasani A, Daliri MR. (2019) State-based decoding of force signals from multi-channel local field potentials. Submitted to IEEE transaction on neural system and rehabilitation engineering.  Khorasani A, Shalchyan V, Daliri MR. (2019) Adaptive artifact removal from intracortical channels for accurate decoding of force signal in freely moving rats. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 13(1): 350-358.  Nimbalkar S, Castagnola E, Balasubramani A, Scarpellini A, Samejima S, Khorasani A, Boissenin A, Thongpang S, Moritz C, Kassegne S. (2018) Ultra-Capacitive carbon neural probe allows simultaneous Long-Term electrical stimulations and high-resolution neurotransmitter detection. Nature Scientific reports, 8(1).  Khorasani A, Foodeh R, Shalchyan V, Daliri MR. (2017) Brain control of an external device by extracting the highest force-related contents of local field potentials in freely moving rats. IEEE transaction on neural system and rehabilitation engineering. 26(1): 18-25.  Khorasani A, Heydari N, Shalchyan V, Daliri MR. (2016) Continuous force decoding from local field potentials of the primary motor cortex in freely moving rats. Nature Scientific reports, 6(2). Last update: 04/07/2020 A. Khorasani, CV, Page 2  Foodeh R, Khorasani A, Shalchyan V, Daliri MR. (2016) Minimum noise estimate filter: a novel automated artifacts removal method for field potentials. IEEE transaction on neural system and rehabilitation engineering. 25(8): 1143- 1152.  Khorasani A, Daliri MR, Pooyan M. (2015) Recognition of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease using factorial hidden Markov model. Biomedical Engineering/Biomedizinische Technik. 61(1): 119-126.  Khorasani A, Daliri MR. (2014) HMM for classification of Parkinson’s disease based on the raw gait data. Journal of medical systems. 38(12): 1-6.  Khorasani A, Daliri MR. (2013) Estimation of neural firing rate: the wavelet density estimation approach. Biomedizinische Technik/Biomedical Engineering. 58(4): 377-386.  Khorasani A, Erfanian A. (2011) Adaptive neuro-fuzzy sliding mode control of walking using intramuscular electrical stimulation in Rat (in Persian). Iranian journal of biomedical engineering. 5 (3): 245-255. Conference papers  Ranganathan V, Nakahara J, Samejima S, Tolley N, Khorasani A, Moritz C.T, Smith J.R, (2019) Neural Closed-Loop Implantable Platform: A Modular FPGA-Based Neural Interface for Closed-Loop Operation. 9th International IEEE EMBS Neural Engineering Conference San Francisco, CA.  Khorasani A, Shalchyan V, Daliri MR. (2018) Artifact removal from intracortical channels for brain-machine interface applications. Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, Tehran, Iran.  Samejima S, Khorasani A, Boissenin A, Ranganathan V, Smith J.R, Moritz C.T. (2018) Restoring graded forelimb movement after spinal cord injury with cortical-local field potential control of epidural spinal stimulation. Society for Neuroscience Annual meeting, San Diego, CA.  Oh J, Samejima S, Khorasani A, Boissenin A, Moritz C.T. (2018). Simultaneous Recording of Micro-Electrocorticography and Local Field Potentials for Decoding Rat Forelimb Movement. 27th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting CNS, Seattle, WA.  Samejima S, Khorasani A, Boissenin A, Ranganathan V, Smith J.R, Moritz C.T. (2018). Brain Controlled Epidural Spinal Interface Reanimating Forelimb Function in Spinal Cord Injury. 7th International BCI Meeting, Asilomar, CA.  Khorasani A, Shalchyan V, Daliri MR. (2017) Combinational intracortical decoder of forelimb force in freely moving rats. 12th Göttingen Meeting, Göttingen, Germany.  Khorasani A, Heydari N, Shalchyan V, Daliri MR. (2015) Continuous decoding of rat forelimb force from local field potentials. Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, Tehran, Iran.  Khorasani A, Hasheminezhad M, Azarbadegan M. (2015) The vital and movement signs monitoring system (in Persian). International conference on research in engineering science and technology, Istanbul, Turkey.  Khorasani A, Shalchyan V, Daliri MR. (2014) Automatic estimation of neural firing rate based on the wavelet packets (in Persian). Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran.  Khorasani A, Daliri MR. (2013) New wavelet-based density estimator for neural firing rate estimation. Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, Tehran, Iran.  Khorasani A, Erfanian A. (2013) Higher-order sliding mode control of multi-joint movement using intramuscular functional electrical stimulation. IFESS Annual Conference, Gipzukoa, Spain.  Khorasani A, Erfanian A. (2012) Adaptive neuro-fuzzy sliding mode control of walking using intramuscular functional electrical stimulation. Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress, Tehran, Iran.  Khorasani A, Erfanian A. (2011) Adaptive neuro-fuzzy control of the rat knee joint using functional electrical stimulation (in Persian). Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran. Last update: 04/07/2020 A. Khorasani, CV, Page 3 Books  Khorasani A, Fatehi Hassan. (2013) Wavelets in LabVIEW. Arna Publication. Media Coverage   http://csne-erc.org/feature-stories/new-carbon-based-neural-probe-provides-robust-multimodal-platform-better https://cogc.ir/index.php?ctrl=news&actn=news_view&lang=1&id=67568 Invited Talks   An introduction to different fields of biomedical engineering Azad University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran Movement restoration after spinal cord injury based on the brain control of the spinal cord stimulation University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran 2018 2018 Service Program Committee Member   Chair of Signal Processing and Brain Decoding Panel, Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress Chair of Cognitive Impairment Treatment Panel, Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress 2018 2019 Reviewer      Iranian Journal of Biomedical Engineering IEEE 5th Conference on Knowledge-based Engineering and Innovation 26th Iranian Conference on Biomedical Engineering Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Informatics in Medicine Unlocked, Elsevier 2018-Present 2019 2019 2019-Present 2020-Present Related Coursework     Applications of Wavelet Transforms in Signal and Image Processing, Grade:19/20 Statistical Pattern Recognition, Grade:18.5/20 Neuroscience, Grade:19/20 Control of Neuromuscular system, Grade: 18.5/20 Teaching and Mentoring Experience Teaching       Lab instructor, Electrophysiology lab, Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) Workshop teacher, Surgical operations of micro wire array implantation on rodents, IUST Teacher, Fundamental of electrical engineering 1&2, Valiasr University of Rafsanjan Teacher, Electrical circuits 1&2 and Electronic1, Azad University of Rafsanjan Teacher, Electrical machines 1&2, Misagh University of Rafsanjan Teacher, Artificial Intelligence for Neuroscience, Kerman university of medical sciences 2014 2014 2013 2013 2013 2020 Mentoring  Amir Soleymankhani, Graduate student in biomedical engineering Last update: 04/07/2020 2018 A. Khorasani, CV, Page 4 Decoding force information from multiunit motor cortex data of freely moving rats  Alavie Mirfathollahi, Graduate student in biomedical engineering Designing multi-channel micro wire arrays for recording intracortical data 2017  Adrien Biossenin, Graduate student in neuroscience Decoding LFP channels from multichannel ECoG signals 2017  Adam King, Middle school science teacher at Eatonville middle school Optimizing epidural spinal cord stimulation parameters for movement restoration 2017  Laura Moore, Middle school science teacher at Eaton school Decoding of movement from LFP signals using neural network models 2017 References  Dr Chet Moritz Allen Distinguished Investigator Associate Professor/ Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Physiology & Biophysics Co-Director/ Center for Neurotechnology University of Washington, Seattle, USA ctmoritz@uw.edu  Dr Mohammad Reza Daliri Professor/ Iran University of Science and Technology Professor/ Institute for Research in Fundamental Science (IPM) Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran. daliri@iust.ac.ir  Dr Vahid Shalchyan Assistant professor/ Iran University of Science and Technology Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Tehran, Iran. shalchyan@iust.ac.ir  Dr Amir Fassih Chief Technology Officer at Fankavan Aral Fankavan Aral, Tehran, Iran. amir_fassih@yahoo.com Last update: 04/07/2020 A. 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