Work Experience

Research Associate (Adjunct)
Jun 2025 – Present
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Aphasia Lab, University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Leading computational work on brain age gap modeling for the Brain Health Index project, combining neuroimaging-derived features with…

Graduate Research Assistant
Aug 2020 – Dec 2024
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Aphasia Lab, University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Led research on how hearing loss is associated with cognitive decline through multimodal brain biomarkers, including brain age gap, gray…

Research Associate
Nov 2019 – Aug 2020
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Aphasia Lab, University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Applied machine learning to brain-behavior relationships in post-stroke aphasia and healthy aging; Performed MRI/fMRI data collection;…

Postgraduate Research Associate
Jan 2018 – Nov 2019
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Emerge Research Program, Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT

Used structural MRI, resting-state fMRI, and connectome predictive modeling to map neural signatures of antidepressant and ketamine…

Education

Ph.D., Communication Sciences and Disorders (Neuroscience Track)
Aug 2020 – Dec 2024
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University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC

Dissertation: Towards Understanding the Relationship Between Hearing Loss and Cognition in Healthy Aging.

M.Sc., Biomedical Engineering
Sep 2013 – Jan 2016
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Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Mashhad, Iran

Thesis: Neural Signatures of Music Perception in Healthy Adults Using Electroencephalography.

B.Sc., Biomedical Engineering
Sep 2007 – Jul 2011
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Azad University of Mashhad
Mashhad, Iran

Thesis: The Development of a Computer-Based Insole Force Analyzer System for Gait Analysis.