Forough Habibollahi S.
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Forough Habibollahi S.

Google Scholar ID: t6uNqqIAAAAJ
Applied Scientist - Postdoctoral Research Fellow @ CorticalLabs
Computational NeuroscienceCriticality in BrainBrain Computer InterfaceReinforcement Learning
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Academic Achievements
  • No specific details provided regarding publications, awards, patents, or projects.
Research Experience
  • Currently a full-time Applied Scientist and Computational Neuroscience Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cortical Labs, involved in the creation of DishBrain, which fuses living brain cells with computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence. Also, an organizing program chair for the NeuroAI Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024, fostering collaboration between neuroscience and AI to drive innovative solutions.
Education
  • Ph.D. at the Neural Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne. Investigated hippocampal neural criticality using Calcium Imaging from freely behaving mice.
  • M.Sc. at the Brain Mind Institute (BMI), EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Conducted research on remote fear memory attenuation and its underlying epigenetic mechanisms.
  • Research internship at the Medical Engineering and Design Laboratory, SUTD-MIT (Singapore University of Technology and Design). Focused on image processing of bone CT data for Osteoporosis patients.
  • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology. Worked on the Chaotic Analysis of Neural Activity in the Primary Visual Cortex of an awake monkey.
  • Remote internship at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University. Developed MATLAB tools for serial communication with transcranial magnetic stimulation devices.
Background
  • Applied Scientist/Post-doctoral Research Fellow, with research interests in Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, NeuroAI, Graph Neural Networks, Neural Population Dynamics, Statistical Machine Learning, and Complex Networks Analysis.
Miscellany
  • Personal interests and hobbies not explicitly mentioned.