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UTHealth Neuroscience Poster Winner

Roy Phillips, 1st Place winner at the 30th Annual UTHealth Neuroscience Poster Session for his poster entitled “Inferring Neural Activity from Noninvasive Measurements: Broadband Spectral Parameterization and Nonlinear Source Localization”

Congratulations to the following Aazhang group members who presents at the 2024 Asilomar Concerence on Signals, Systems, and Computers:

Phillips A.R., Teimouri A., & Aazhang B. (2024, October). Canonical Parameterization of Neural Power Spectra for the Detection of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Oral presentation at Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computer Conference, Pacific Grove, CA.

EPMoghaddam D., Razavi M., & Aazhang B (2024, October) Vision Transformer for Arrhythmia Classification. Oral presentation at Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computer Conference, Pacific Grove, CA.

EPMoghaddam D., Razavi M., & Aazhang B (2024, October) Cardiac Condition Classification Using 12-Lead ECG Recording. Poster presentation at Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computer Conference, Pacific Grove, CA.

Sara Vanaki: Vanaki S., Byrne J., & Aazhang B. (2024).Comparing the low dimensional signature of short- and long-term effects of operant conditioning.

Congratulations Ananya!

Congratulations Roy Phillips!

Roy Phillips, Interface Rice 2024 Attendees Choice Winner, Poster Session for poster entitled “Data Driven Detection of Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries from Noninvasive Sensors”

 

May 2, 2024

Congratulations Roy!

Roy Phillips successfully defended MS Thesis titled “Data-driven detection of mild traumatic brain injuries from noninvasive sensors” May 31, 2024.

Congratulations Fatima Ahsan!

Fatima Ahsan successfully defended PhD Thesis titled “EMvelop Stimulation: Minimally Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation using Temporally Interfering Electromagnetic Waves,”

 

March 29, 2024

Publication in Intelligent Systems with Applications

D. E.P. Moghaddam, A. Muguli, M. Razavi, B. Aazhang (2024)  “A graph-based cardiac arrhythmia classification methodology using one-lead ECG recordings,” Intelligent Systems with Applications, Volume 22, June 2024. doi: 10.1016/j.iswa.2024.200385.

 

June, 2024

Congratulations Roy Phillips!

Roy Phillips successfully defended MS Thesis titled “Data-driven detection of mild traumatic brain injuries from noninvasive sensors” 

 

May 31, 2024

Congratulations Aila Teimouri!

1st Place winner at the 29th Annual Neuroscience Poster Session Awards for her poster entitled “A Network-Based Framework for Epileptogenic Zone Identification Using Spectrotemporal Graphs”!

Dec 2, 2023

Congratulations Anton Banta!

Anton Banta successfully defended PhD Thesis titled “Technologies to Better Study Cerebrospinal Fluid Movement in The Human Brain,

 

Dec 8, 2023

Congratulations Dr. Samantha Santacruz!

Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni Award, 2023

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Nov 2, 2023

Poster Presentations at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computer Conference, Pacific Grove, CA.

Ahsan F., Govindaraju A.C., Raphael R.M., T. Chi, Sheth S.A., Goodman W. & Aazhang B. (2023, October). Biophysics of amplitude-modulated giga-hertz electromagnetic waves stimulation.

E.P.Moghaddam D., Banta A., Post A., Razavi M., & Aazhang B. (2023, October). A novel methodology for accurate 12-lead ECG reconstruction. 

E.P.Moghaddam D., Muguli A., Aazhang B. (2023, October). A Novel Cardiac Arrhythmia Classification Method Using Visibility Graphs and Graph Convolutional Network.

October, 2023

Interactive computational challenge led by graduate Students Roy Phillips and Anton Banta!

Selected as research exchange students by Dr. Cesar Uribe for the 100K Strong Innovation Fund Award, Roy and Anton led an interactive computational challenge with students for the summer couse tauhgt by Dr. Aazang at Javeriana University.

June 23 – July 23, 2023

Summer Course taught by Dr. Aazhang at Javeriana University, Bogotá, Colombia

This summer, Dr. Aazhang co-taught a 30-hour course entitled Neuroengineering: Learning from Neuronal Signals  in conjunction with Prof. Catalina Alvarado Rojas.

June 20-23, 2023

Poster Presentations at the Military Health System Research Symposium, Orlando, FL.

Banta A. Phillips A.R., D’Ambrosio R., Golanov E., Regnier-Golanov A., Karmonik C., Shaib F., Britz G., & Aazhang B. (2023, July). A High-Accuracy, Non-Invasive, and Portable Method to Measure Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow in the Cerebral Aqueduct.

Phillips A.R., Banta A. D’Ambrosio, R. Britz G., & Aazhang B. (2023, July). Machine Learning‐Based Detection of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury with Scalp EEG Achieves Clinically Useful Performance. 

July, 2023

Large-scale recording of population activity during social cognition in freely moving non-human primates

Patent

“Minimally Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation using Electromagnetic Waves”

Fatima Ahsan, Taiyun Chi, Raymond Cho, Sameer A. Sheth, Wayne Goodman, and Behnaam Aazhang

May 25, 2023

Congratulations, Fatima Ahsan!

Rice Innovation Fellow, 2023

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May 22, 2023

Poster Presentations at Interface Rice

Muguli A., Aazhang B., (2023, May). Neuromodulation for Intracerebral Hemorrhagic stroke: A closed loop system design and biophysics.

Esmaeilpourmoghaddam D., Sheth S., Gavala J., Aazhang B. (2023, May). A New Approach for Patient-specific Epileptic Seizure Prediction.

Phillips A., D’Ambrosio R., Golanov E., Regnier-Golanov A., Britz G., Aazhang B. (2023, May) Data-driven Detection of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury from Noninvasive Sensors.

Banta A., D’Ambrosio R., Phillips R., Golanov E., Regnier-Golanov A., Britz G., Aazhang B. (2023, May). A High-Accuracy Non-Invasive and Portable Method to Measure Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow in the Cerebral Aqueduct.

May 2023

Congratulations, Roy Philips!

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Award 2023

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May 11, 2023

Congratulations, Fatima Ahsan!

Future Leaders Summit by Michigan Institute of Data Science (MIDAS), University of Michigan Ann Arbor, 2023

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 April, 2023

Stay tuned for more exciting updates from the Aazhang lab!