Education	Master of Sciences in Computational Science, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, GPA: 3.54/4, Thesis: Matlab Toolbox for High Resolution Vector Field Visualization with Application in Improving the Understanding of Crack Propagation Mechanisms, 2003-2005 Bachelor of Science in Physics, Sharif⁽¹⁾ University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1998-2003 Diploma in Physical Sciences and math, 1998 Participate in Physics Olympiad workshop, 1997 1994-1998 Shahid Beheshty Magnet High School, under the supervision of NODET (National Organization for Developing Exceptional Talents), Ahwaz, Iran, High school Diploma in Mathematics and Physics major.
Computer and Electronics Skill	Computer Languages: C++ (7 yrs), Matlab (7 yrs), Delphi (11 yrs), Fortran, OpenGL Embedded programming: AVR microcontroller with C, BASIC STAMP Parallel Computing: MPI Web Development: JavaScript, PHP, MySQL
Awards and Honors	Silver medal in the final level of National Physics Olympiad in Iran, 1997 Student of the month, National Resident Hall Honorary, San Diego, 2003 27^th Place in the national Physics Masters Program entry exam (%95 below), Iran, 2002 Third place in the International Kharazmi Festival, with special prize from the President of Iran, 1997 ‘Roozbeh’ award (highest high school physics award) from the ‘Physics Society of Iran’ and ‘Best Physics Software’ award in fourth national student physics conference, Mashhad, Iran, 1996
Professional experience	Programmer/Analyst, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, 2005-present Software Developer - Fqubed Inc (Internship), Scientific Data mining and Visualization (Bioinformatics), San Diego, CA, 2005 Research assistant, San Diego State University, 2003-2005 Part-time researcher, Persian Text to Speech project , School of Intelligent System, Institute for studies on Theoretical Physics and Mathematics⁽²⁾, Tehran, Iran , Writing software for word extraction, frequency calculation and phonetization to make modern Persian phoneme table, 2001-2002 Teacher Assistant of Computation Physics course, 2001 Transducer spatial sensitivity, Cybernetics Hat Project, Sharif University, Term project Writing a program to calculate the spatial sensitivity of a complex array of ultrasonic transducers and visualize it in 3D space, 2002 Extraction and analysis of TEPIX (Tehran Stock Exchange Index), 2002
Projects	Neurotechnology for intelligence analyst (NIA), Lead software developer, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project at Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, University of California San Diego, 2005-2007 Mobile Brain Imagine (MOBI), simultaneous motion capture and brain EEG recording and analysis, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, 2008 Electronic circuit and PCB design, SMD assembly and programming of a patent pending electronic key usage history indicator, 2008 First commercial text to speech synthesizer for Farsi language, design and implementation of a phoneme engine using data mining methods and hidden Markov models, 2005 Behnevis.com: Farsi transliteration web service,1500+ visitors per day, 2008 Electrostatics 3D and Magnetism 3D software, educational electrostatics and magnetism programs for visualization of 2D and 3D equipotent surfaces and electric field lines, published by Physics Curriculum & Instruction company. Website: http://www.electrostatics3d.com, 1996 - 2005 Fmail software, innovative Persian editor and email software that converts Persian words typed with Latin letters into the Farsi writing by using an intelligent algorithm and extensive database to recognize different forms of a Persian word, commercial software, 800+ copies have been sold worldwide. Website: www.fmailer.com Matlab vector field visualization toolbox, Developing software tools to visualize fine details of vector fields, implementation of Linear integral convolution (LIC) method, San Diego State University, CA, 2004 – 2005 Physics lab programs, twelve physics simulations software for educational purposes and a spatial geometry visualization software, commercial package, Tehran, 2000
Research Interests	Innovative electronics with emphasis of networked sensors and computing Distributed Robotics Computational Neurosciences, Brain Computer Interfaces Machine learning and Evolutionary algorithms
Patents	Nima Bigdely Shamlo, “Method, Apparatus and System for an Electronic Key Usage History Indicator”, Non-provisional U.S utility patent application 12/228,797 (pending), 2008 Scott Makeig, Nima Bigdely Shamlo, “Method for Rapid Serial Visual Image Search”, Provisional U.S utility patent application 60/968,781, 2007 Nima Bigdely Shamlo, “Method, Apparatus and System for an Electronic Garment Usage Record Indicator”, Provisional U.S utility patent application 61/023,091, 2008 Nima Bigdely Shamlo, “Method and Apparatus for a Piezochromic Usage History Indicator”, Provisional U.S utility patent application 61/014,022, 2007
Publications	N. Bigdely-Shamlo, A. Vankov, R. Ramirez, ; S. Makeig, "Brain Activity-Based Image Classification From Rapid Serial visual Presentation," IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2008, vol. 16, no 4. N. Bigdely-Shamlo, S. Makeig, "Mind-Mirror: EEG-guided Image Evolution," To be presented in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) conference, 2009 B. Brandon, S. Makeig, N. Bigdely-Shamlo, J. Onton, "Independent Source Clustering for EEG Analysis," Poster Presentation, Bernstein Symposium, Munich, Germany, Oct. 2008. 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 N. Bigdely-Shamlo, "Matlab Toolbox for High Resolution Vector Field Visualization with Application in Improving the Understanding of Crack Propagation Mechanisms", 2005, Master Thesis.
Hobbies	Philosophy, specially the philosophy of Physics, Quantum Mechanics and Ethics Programming and selling software on the internet (I have three pieces of software on sale over the internet) Science fiction novels and movies
References	Sharif is the highest ranking technological university in Iran, http://www.sharif.ac.ir/ http://www.ipm.ac.ir/IPM/homepage/homepage.html , http://www.sis.ipm.ac.ir/ and http://www.ipm.ac.ir/IPM/