Service & leadership
Contributing to a rigorous, connected research community.
My service includes peer review, proposal development, research outreach, scientific volunteering, and communicating emerging work to interdisciplinary audiences.
Peer review
Supporting research quality
Selected journal and conference reviewing from a broader record documented in my full CV.
Journals
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Journal of Neural Engineering
- Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
- Imaging Neuroscience
- Scientific Reports
- IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
- Biomedical Signal Processing & Control
Conferences
- IEEE ICASSP
- MICCAI
- Machine Learning for Health
- ECML-PKDD
- ICONIP
- ACM IMWUT
Grant development
Contributions to funded proposals
Proposal-development experience as a contributing researcher; principal investigators are identified below.
- NIH R01 · Funded · $1M
Deep Multimodal Immersive Framework for Cortical Motor Entrainment of Rhythmic Audio-Visual Stimuli
University of Rhode Island · Principal Investigator: Dr. Yalda Shahriari
- NSF Human-Centered Computing · Funded · $349,972
Graph-Centric Exploration of Nonlinear Neural Dynamics in Visuospatial-Motor Functions
University of Rhode Island · Principal Investigator: Dr. Yalda Shahriari
- NSF Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering · Funded · $463,693
Multimodal Neural Associations of Visual Hallucinations and Motor Functions in Parkinson's Disease
University of Rhode Island · Principal Investigator: Dr. Yalda Shahriari
Leadership & outreach
Connecting people and opportunities
Sci-ROI volunteer
Core member of Science and Research Opportunities in India, a WINStep Forward program supporting international science and technology exchange.
IITGN Research Society
Served as Outreach and Logistics Head, moderating events on academia-industry pathways, AI, research fellowships, entrepreneurship, and scientific careers.
Selected presentations
Recent talks & posters
Presentations delivered or co-authored at scientific meetings and institutional symposia.
- St. Jude Postdoctoral Symposium
Postoperative Cerebral Dysfunction in Medulloblastoma Patients with Posterior Fossa Syndrome
Talk and poster
- Society for Neuroscience · 2025
Neurophysiological Correlates of Sleep and Memory in Long-Term Pediatric Cancer Survivors
Talk and poster · San Diego, California
- St. Jude KIDS Symposium · 2025
Region-Aware Reconstruction Strategy for Pre-training fMRI Foundation Model
Talk · Memphis, Tennessee
- Neural Interfaces · 2025
Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation for Mitigating Chronic Pain in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease
Poster · Washington, DC
- IEEE Brain Discovery and Neurotechnology Workshop · 2024
Decoding Representations of Sleep Spindles
Talk and poster · Chicago, Illinois
- Neuromatch Workshop · 2024
fNIRSNET: Multimodal Classification of Auditory Events
Virtual talk