Ali

Curriculum Vitae
Almasi

Biomedical Signal and Image Pro cessing Lab oratory

(BiSIPL), Scho ol of Electrical Engineering, Sharif
University of Technology, Tehran, Iran P. O. Box 113569363
T (98) 21 6616
B ali.almasi@ieee.org, 5957
a_almasi@ee.sharif.edu
ee.sharif.edu/ a_almasi/

Personal details
Citizenship Iranian
Birth August6th,1986,Iran.

Education
M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering , Sharif Universi ty of Technology , Tehran,
20092012

Iran, http://www.sharif.ir/en/,Overal l GPA: 18.74/20.

Major: Bioelectric

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering , University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran,

20042009

http://www.ut.ac.ir/en/,Overal l GPA: 15.12/20 .

Major: Control System

Master thesi s
title A Dynamical Model for Generating Phonocardiogram Signals and Model-Based

Processing
supervisor Dr. MohammadB.Shamsollahi
description In this thesis a dynamical model is proposed for phonocardiogram (PCG) based on its
morphologywhichiscapableofgeneratingsyntheticphonocardiogramsignals. Theproposedmodelisusedtoestablishanewmodel-basedBayesianPCGprocessingframework
fordierentaimssuchasdenoising,heartsoundsegmentation,andcompression.

Bachelor thesis
title Electromayogram Signals Denoising and Artifact Removal Using Wavelet Trans-

form and Application to Muscle Onset Detection

supervisor Dr. FaribaBahrami
description InthisthesistheECGartifactandnoisescontaminatingEMGareremovedusingDiscrete
WaveletTransformandthemuscleactivationonsetisdetectedviasomethreshold-based methods.

Language skills and test

scores
MotherTongue Persian
TOEFLiBT Overall92,(Reading21,Listening27,Speaking20,Writing24)
GREGeneral VerbalReasoning144,QuantitativeReasoning164,AnalyticalWriting3.5

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Honors
nd
Ranked2
amongstBMEgraduatestudents,DepartmentofElectricalEngineering,SharifUniversityofTechnology.
th
Ranked119
inthenation-wideentranceexamofuniversities(Konkoor)inIran
amongstmorethan500,000applicants.

Computer sk ills
HardwareDesign ModelSim,Quartus Programming Languages
Environments
Hardware Verilog Engineering Software
Description
Language

C++,Assembly
MATLAB and Simulink, PSpice
andHSpice,20-sim

Microcontroller Proteus,Codevision
Programming
Environments

Areas of exp ertise and

Interests
Statisticalsignalprocessing
BiomedicalsignalProcessing(includingECG,EEG,PCG,EMG,MEG)
Medicalimageanalysisandprocessing
Medicalimagingsystems
Neuralmodeling,computationalneuroscience
Time-Frequencyanalysis,wavelet,andmultiresolutionanalysis
Statisticalpatternrecognition
DynamicalBayesianNetworks
Adaptivesystems/lters
Nonlinearsignalprocessing
BlindSourceSeparation
Sparsesignalprocessing

Sample cou rse

projects
Spring2011 Neuralmodeling(populationcoding)ofhumanvestibularsystemduringangularmovements
Fall2010 SimulationofECGmodel-baseddenoising,segmentation,andcompression
Fall2010 Simulationofbodythermoregulationsystem
Spring2010 EnhancementandDenoisingofMammographicImagesandBreastCancerDetectionUsingDyadicWaveletProcessing,SimulationbyMATLAB
Spring2010 RegistrationofMRIimagesofbrainwithseveralregistrationandinterpolationmethods
Spring2008 DesignandImplementationofaRFIDtag
Spring2008 DesignandImplementationofaLineFollowerRobot

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Spring2008 DesignofaRegulatorandTrackerSystemwithStateFeedbackbyMATLAB
Fall2007 DesignofaQueueandImplementationonFPGA
Fall2007 DesignofaMiniProcessorwithsomesimplespecicationsbyQuartus

RA and TA exp eriences

Spring2012 Researcher in Bioengineering & Health Systems Research Center (BEHSRC) of Sharif
UniversityofTechnology
Fall2009Fall ResearchassistantinBiomedical Image and Signal Processing Laboratory (BiSIPL),de2011
partmentofelectricalengineering,SharifUniversityofTechnology
Spring2011 TeacherassistantofBiomedicalSignalProcessing
Fall2010 TeacherassistantofFundamentalofCircuitTheory
Fall2009 TeachingexperiencesinFundamentalofCircuitTheory,LinearControlSystems,Signals
andSystems,andMathematicsasatutor

Other Exp erience and Professional Memb

ership s
2011present InstituteofElectricalandElectronicsEngineering(IEEE)
2011present IEEEEngineeringinMedicineandBiologySociety(EMBS)
2012 Reviewer for the 11th International Conference on Information Science, Signal

ProcessingandtheirApplications(ISSPA12)

Publications
Conference Pap
ers
A.Almasi,M.B.Shamsollahi,andL.Senhadji,Adynamicalmodelforgeneratingsyn- thetic
phonocardiogram signals, In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Int ernational Con- ference of
the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,pp. 5686-5689,2011.

Journal Pap
ers
A.Almasi,M.B.Shamsollahi,andL.Senhadji,Bayesiandenoisingframeworkofphonocardiogrambasedonanewdynamicalmodel,Submitted to IRBM-Elsevier.

References
Available upon request

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