Post-doctoral Research Associate
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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I am a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, working with Prof. Olgica Milenkovic. I got my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Arizona in 2015 under supervision of Prof. Bane Vasic. I also received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Isfahan university of Technology, Isfahan, Iran in 2005 and 2008, respectively.
My research interests include Genomic Data Compression, Graphical-based Models for Large-scale Networks, Big Data Analysis, Computational Biology, LDPC codes and Group Testing.
News:
1. ChIPWig: A Random Access-Enabling Lossless and Lossy Compression Method for ChIP-seq Data was submitted to Bioinformatics, Apr. 2017.
2 .ChIPWig was presented at the 12th CSL student conference, Coordinated Science Laboratory, UIUC, Feb. 2017.
3.Doubly Threshold Graphs for Social Network Modeling got accepted and presented at the ITW, Cambridge, UK, Sept,. 2016.
4. ChIPWig, a compression method for the ChIP-seq wig files was presented as a poster at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in October 2016.
5. ChIPWig was presented as a poster at the Center for Computational Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine kickoff meeting in November 2016.
6. ChIPWig was presented as a poster at the Big Data 2 Knowledge (BD2K) meeting, National Institute of Health (NIH) in November 2016.