Grasp-Relevant Representation of Objects in the Human Parietal and Occipito-Temporal Cortices
Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN), 2026
CV
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Education
Jan 2025 – Present
Ph.D. Student, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program
University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Sep 2021 – Sep 2024
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Control Engineering
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Sep 2017 – Sep 2021
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Telecommunication Systems
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Research Experience
Jan 2025 – Present
Graduate Research Assistant, Movement and Visual Perception Lab
University of Delaware
- Object and grasp-relevant representations in visual and parietal cortex.
- MRI experiments and cortical/subcortical activity analysis.
Sep 2020 – Sep 2024
Graduate Research Assistant, Brain Computing Lab
University of Tehran
- Eye tracking, EEG, visual imagery decoding, and sentence processing.
Sep 2021 – Sep 2024
Graduate Research Assistant, Brain Computing Lab
IPM
- Central and peripheral visual representations from electrophysiological recordings.
Publications and Conferences
Object Representations in the Human Parietal and Occipito-Temporal Cortices in a Grasping Task
Vision Sciences Society (VSS), 2026
Eye Movements during Sentence Processing in High-Functioning Autistic Children Compared to Neurotypical Peers
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2025
Enhancing Supervised Learning in Speech Emotion Recognition through Unsupervised Representations
14th IKT Conference, 2023
Skills
Python, MATLAB, R, C/C++, Git, AFNI, fMRIPrep, FSL, PsychoPy, PsychToolbox, EEGLab, PyTorch, Scikit-Learn.