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Work Experience

2018–2023
Data scientist
EBRAINS, Marseille, France
2016–2023
RHU researcher
Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (INS, UMR1106), Marseille, France
2017–2018
Engineer researcher
SATT Sud-Est, Marseille, France
2012–2016
PhD researcher
INRIA Grand-Est, Nancy, France
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Education

2016–2023
Postdoctoral Fellowships, in AI/ML for digital brain twins
Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France

Project: State-of-the-art Bayesian inference on the virtual brain models for brain diseases; Deep neural density estimators for flexible and fast simulated-based inference, and adaptive Monte Carlo for principled and automatic statistical estimation.
Supervisor: Prof. Viktor Jirsa

2012–2016
Ph.D. in Computer science
Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

Thesis: Analytical and numerical studies of thalamo-cortical neural population models during general anesthesia. (View Pdf, in English)
Supervisor: Dr. Axel Hutt

My doctoral thesis aimed to investigate the mechanisms underlying the observed specific changes in EEG patterns during propofol-induced anesthesia. I worked on thalamo-cortical neural mass models to link the effects of anesthetic agents at microscopic single neuron level to the macroscopic-scale observables such as EEG signals. In the second part, I worked on optimization algorithms to estimate model parameters by fitting model spectral power to experimental data.

2008–2012
M.Sc. in Physics, Soft Condensed Matter
Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS), Zanjan, IRAN

Thesis: Effect of the duration of the synaptic activity on a neuronal loop with delayed feedback. (View Pdf, in Persian)
Supervisor: Dr. Alireza Valizadeh

2004–2008
B.Sc. in Physics, Solid state
Kharazmi University, Tehran, IRAN