Nima Bigdely Shamlo, PhD

UPDATE 

I left my position at Swartz Center, UCSD on March 28, 2014 to co-found Syntrogi , Inc., a San Diego Neurotechnology start-up focused on EEG/BCI analysis in the cloud, as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). My new email is nima.bigdelysyntrogi.com .

Degrees:

• April 2014, PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego.
  

• August 2005, MSc in Computational Science, San Diego State University, San Diego.

• Feb 2003, BSc in Physics, Sharif Univeristy of Technology, Tehran.

Research Interests:

• Brain Computer Interface
  

• Machine Learning
  

• Artificial Life

• Visualization

Projects and Software

Dynamic Brain Source Connectivity (interactive visualization)
Measure Projection Toolbox (MPT) for Multi-Subject EEG Inference
Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) (image shows MoBI featured on Discover magazine)
MatRiver Toolbox for real-time EEG analysis
Electrostatics 3D software: www.electrostatics3d.com
Magnetism 3D software: http://www.physicscurriculum.com/magnetism_3d.htm
Matlab Vector Field Visualization toolkit
Fmail: First commercial Text to Speech Synthesizer for Farsi language Behnevis: Online Farsi transliterator behnevis.com Behjoo: Farsi web search behjoo.com
Tank game (written by my brother Kamran and I)

Employment:

• April 2013 - Current: Co-founder and CTO at Syntrogi, Inc.
  

• October 2005 – March 2013 : Progammer/Analyst at SCCN, UCSD.

• August  2003 – September 2005 : Research Assistant at Computational Science Research Center, San Diego State University, San Diego.
  

Patents:

• Bigdely-Shamlo, N., Kreutz-Delgado, K., Kothe, C., Makeig, S., "Towards an EEG Search Engine," IEEE GlobalSIP Conference, Austin, TX, 2013, Accepted.
  
  
• Bigdely-Shamlo, N., Kreutz-Delgado, K., Robbins K., Miyakoshi M., Westerfield, M., Bel-Bahar, T., Kothe, C.,Hsi, J., Makeig, S., "Hierarchical Event Descriptor (HED) Tags for Analysis of Event-Related EEG Studies", IEEE GlobalSIP Conference, Austin, TX, 2013, Accepted.
  
  
• Bigdely-Shamlo, Nima, Mullen, Tim, Kreutz-Delgado,  Kenneth, Makeig, Scott, "Measure Projection Analysis: A Probabilistic Approach  to EEG Source Comparison and Multi-Subject Inference," NeuroImage (2013), Vol. 72, pp. 287-303, doi:  10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.01.040 (preprint)
  

• Bigdely-Shamlo N.,  Vankov A., Ramirez R., ; Makeig S., "Brain Activity-Based Image Classification From Rapid Serial visual Presentation," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2008, vol. 16, no 4.

• Bigdely Shamlo N., Makeig S., "Mind-Mirror: EEG-Guided Image Evolution", Proceedings of the 13th inter. Conf. on Human-Computer interaction, Lecture Notes In Computer Science, vol. 5611. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 569-578, 2009
  
  
• Rognon, T., Strautman, R., Jett, L., Bigdely-Shamlo, N., Makeig, S., Johnson, T., Robbins, K., "CTAGGER: Semi-structured Community Tagging for  Annotation and Data-mining in Event-rich Contexts,", IEEE GlobalSIP Conference, Austin, TX, 2013, Accepted.
  
  
• Kothe, C. ;  Mullen, T. ;  Bigdely-Shamlo, N. ;  Zhilin Zhang;  Kreutz-Delgado, K., "Evolving Signal Processing for Brain–Computer Interfaces," Proceedings of the IEEE, 2012, vol. 100, pp. 1567 - 1584, DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2185009
  
  
• Gramann, K., Gwin, J.T., Bigdely-Shamlo, N., Ferris, D.P., & Makeig, S. (2010). Visual evoked responses during standing and walking.
  Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4:202.
  
  
• Mueen A., Keogh E., Bigdely-Shamlo N., "Finding Time Series Motifs in Disk-Resident Data",  IEEE International Conference on Data Mining series (ICDM 2009) [slides]
  
  
• Edelstein, E.A., Gramann, K., Schulze, J., Bigdely-Shamlo, N., van Erp, E., Vankov, A., Makeig, S., & Macagno, E. (2008), "Neural responses during navigation and wayfinding in the virtual aided design laboratory - Brain dynamics of re-orientation in architecturally ambiguous space", Report series of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR8 Spatial Cognition, University Bremen/ University Freiburg.
  
  
• Arnaud Delorme, Tim Mullen, Christian Kothe,  Zeynep Akalin Acar, Nima Bigdely-Shamlo, Andrey Vankov, and Scott Makeig, “EEGLAB, SIFT, NFT, BCILAB, and ERICA: New Tools for Advanced EEG Processing,” Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, vol. 2011, Article ID 130714, 12 pages, 2011. doi:10.1155/2011/130714
  

• My doctoral dissertation: Combining EEG Source Dynamics Results across Subjects, Studies and Cognitive Events (you can use the associated MS Word document as an unofficial UCSD doctoral dissertation template).
  
  
• Delorme A., Kothe C., Vankov A., Bigdely-Shamlo N., Oostenveldt R., Zander T., & Makeig S. MATLAB-based tools for BCI research. In: (B+H)CI: The Human in Brain-Computer Interfaces and the Brain in Human-Computer Interactions, 2010, in press.
  
  
• Gramann, K., Bigdely-Shamlo, N., Vankov, A., & Makeig, S. (2009). Mobile brain/body imaging (MoBI) of active cognition. Poster Presentation, Fifth Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience, Frankfurt, Germany.
  
  
• B. Brandon, S. Makeig, N. Bigdely-Shamlo, J. Onton, "Independent Source Clustering for EEG Analysis,"  Poster Presentation, Bernstein Symposium,  Munich, Germany, Oct.  2008.

• Matlab Toolbox for High Resolution Vector Field Visualization with Application in Improving the Understanding of Crack Propagation Mechanisms, Master Thesis   (view online)