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PhD

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical and Health Informatics with a focus on machine learning and data analytics.
• Currently maintaining a GPA of 4.0.

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Conducted research on medical image segmentation using machine learning techniques, resulting in a thesis titled "Medical Image Segmentation using Machine Learning."
• Graduated with a GPA of 3.9 and received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award in Computer Science.

Bachelor of Computer Software Engineering

Tehran Azad University

• Conducted research on fall detection in the elderly using machine learning techniques, resulting in a thesis titled "Fall Detection in Elderly with Smartphones via Machine Learning Techniques."
• Graduated with a GPA of 3.5.

Research Assistant

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee - Biomedical Data and Language Processing (BioDLP) Lab

• Analyzed data using machine-learning algorithms, including data mining, natural language processing, and knowledge representation and modeling.
• Implemented a pipeline for preprocessing the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) dataset to reduce preprocessing wait time by 80%.
• Developed systems to integrate biomedical language processing into industrial applications such as electronic medical records (EMR) data to make accurate disease predictions.
• Built a pipeline to extract data from Froedtert Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and statistically analyzed patients' demographics.

Project Assistant

University of Wisconsin Milwaukee - Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute

• Collected and analyzed student enrollment and behavior data for each semester for data science disciplines.
• Developed an open-source repository for data science applications in different disciplines.

• Tong, L., Khani, M., Lu, Q., Taylor, B., Osinski, K., Luo, J. (2023). Association between body-mass index, patient characteristics, and obesity-related comorbidities among COVID-19 patients. A prospective cohort study. Obesity Research Clinical Practice, 17(1), 47-57. DOI. 10.1016/j.orcp.2022.12.003

• Feller, C. N., Adams, J. A., Friedland, D. R., Khani, M., Luo, J., Poetker, D. M. (2023). Impacts of socioeconomic status on dentoalveolar trauma. WMJ, 122(1), 32-37

• Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award ($6000)