Publications
Experimental brain research (2019)
'Anti-phase cocontraction practice attenuates in-phase low-frequency oscillations between antagonistic muscles as assessed with phase coherence' 1-10
Medicine and science in sports and exercise 2017
'Slow Intermuscular Oscillations are Associated with Cocontraction Steadiness' 49 (9), 1955-1964
Journal of Neurophysiology 2012
‘Sensitivity to Temporal Modulation Rate and Spectral Bandwidth in the Human Auditory System: MEG Evidence’, vol. 107 no. 8 2033-2041
Cognitive Science Society CogSci 2010
‘Evidence for auditory dominance in a passive oddball task’,
International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering 2005
‘MEG Adaptive noise suppression using fast-LMS’, p 29-32
‘Significance tests for MEG response detection’, p 21-24
‘Complex Valued Equivalent-Current Dipole Fits for MEG Responses’, p 273-276
Thesis
‘Slow Intermuscular Oscillations and strategies to Tango with a Robot', Doctoral dissertation 2018, Georgia Institute of Technology
‘da Vinci’s Encephalogram: In search of significant brain signals’, University of Maryland, College Park, Master of Science 2005.
Media
Mind Over Muscles: How the Brain Hinders Individual Muscle Control medicalxpress, Georgia Institute of Technology
A new study explores the role of "common drive" when controlling muscles.
Honors/Awards
GRA HNMP Lab, NSF NRI project, Georgia Institute of Technology: May.14 - May.17
Research assistantship, UMCP: Sept.03-Dec.05 for research work
Teaching assistantship, UMCP: Jan.03-May03 for Teaching abilities
Undergraduate research assistant ship: Center for Satellite and Hybrid communication networks, Jun.99-Aug.99
Academic Honors UMCP: Fall 1998, Spring 1999 Sept. 98-May99
Dean's list Montgomery College-Rockville: Spring 1998
Experimental brain research (2019)
'Anti-phase cocontraction practice attenuates in-phase low-frequency oscillations between antagonistic muscles as assessed with phase coherence' 1-10
Medicine and science in sports and exercise 2017
'Slow Intermuscular Oscillations are Associated with Cocontraction Steadiness' 49 (9), 1955-1964
Journal of Neurophysiology 2012
‘Sensitivity to Temporal Modulation Rate and Spectral Bandwidth in the Human Auditory System: MEG Evidence’, vol. 107 no. 8 2033-2041
Cognitive Science Society CogSci 2010
‘Evidence for auditory dominance in a passive oddball task’,
International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering 2005
‘MEG Adaptive noise suppression using fast-LMS’, p 29-32
‘Significance tests for MEG response detection’, p 21-24
‘Complex Valued Equivalent-Current Dipole Fits for MEG Responses’, p 273-276
Thesis
‘Slow Intermuscular Oscillations and strategies to Tango with a Robot', Doctoral dissertation 2018, Georgia Institute of Technology
‘da Vinci’s Encephalogram: In search of significant brain signals’, University of Maryland, College Park, Master of Science 2005.
Media
Mind Over Muscles: How the Brain Hinders Individual Muscle Control medicalxpress, Georgia Institute of Technology
A new study explores the role of "common drive" when controlling muscles.
Honors/Awards
GRA HNMP Lab, NSF NRI project, Georgia Institute of Technology: May.14 - May.17
Research assistantship, UMCP: Sept.03-Dec.05 for research work
Teaching assistantship, UMCP: Jan.03-May03 for Teaching abilities
Undergraduate research assistant ship: Center for Satellite and Hybrid communication networks, Jun.99-Aug.99
Academic Honors UMCP: Fall 1998, Spring 1999 Sept. 98-May99
Dean's list Montgomery College-Rockville: Spring 1998
Teaching
Psychology Dept. Columbus, OH
Research Specialist at Ohio State University
EEG support staff Jan.10-Sep. 12
Gave lectures to graduate students in artifacts, filtering and time frequency analysis for EEG signals.
Devised and taught lab materials in the application and analysis of EEG, using EGI system.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. (ECE) College Park, MD
Graduate Teaching Assistant at UMCP
Electronic Circuits Design Lab. Sep. 04 - Dec. 04
Communication system design lab using DSP chip. Jan. 03 - May 03
Recitations for Signals and Systems course.
Psychology Dept. Columbus, OH
Research Specialist at Ohio State University
EEG support staff Jan.10-Sep. 12
Gave lectures to graduate students in artifacts, filtering and time frequency analysis for EEG signals.
Devised and taught lab materials in the application and analysis of EEG, using EGI system.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. (ECE) College Park, MD
Graduate Teaching Assistant at UMCP
Electronic Circuits Design Lab. Sep. 04 - Dec. 04
Communication system design lab using DSP chip. Jan. 03 - May 03
Recitations for Signals and Systems course.
Talks
Slow Intermuscular Oscillations and strategies to Tango with a Robot, Doctoral dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018
DSSC conference giving demo about HRI to 80 faculty members, GT 2018
Data Analysis for brain time series, a survey, OSU Psychology 2009
MEG Adaptive Noise Suppression, IEEE EMBS 2005
daVinci Encephalogram Thesis defense, UMCP 2005
Workshops
EEGLAB, UCSD 2010;
ERPLAB, SPR 2012;
ERP boot camp, UMCP 2009
Biosemi EEG, OSU 2012;
EGI dEEG, Eugene, OR 2009
EyeLink eye tracking, OSU 2011;
MindWare ECG system, Columbus 2008
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NJ 2010;
NLP Orlando, FL 2011
NIPS Lake Tahoe, 2012
Labview Atlanta, 2014
Brain Mode Atlanta, 2015
ISEK Chicago, 2016
Conferences
IEEE EMBS DC 2005
SFN DC, Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego, 05-12
SPR New Orleans, 2012
MMN NYC 2012;
ERP EPIC Bloomington 2009
NIPS Lake Tahoe 2012
ISEK Chicago, 2016
NRI DC, 2016
SKILLS
Programming Languages: Matlab & Python, ( Familiar with C/C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Pascal, Fortran, R)
Frameworks & Libraries: Familiar with NumPy, TensorFIow, Keras, Scikit-learn, Pandas, Matplotlib, NLTK
Hardware Tools: Labview, VHDL, Schematics
Databases: MySQL
Languages: Fluent in Levantine, English, Arabic, and French;
Creative, visionary, analytic thinker, team builder, integrator, see big picture and attend to details
Slow Intermuscular Oscillations and strategies to Tango with a Robot, Doctoral dissertation, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018
DSSC conference giving demo about HRI to 80 faculty members, GT 2018
Data Analysis for brain time series, a survey, OSU Psychology 2009
MEG Adaptive Noise Suppression, IEEE EMBS 2005
daVinci Encephalogram Thesis defense, UMCP 2005
Workshops
EEGLAB, UCSD 2010;
ERPLAB, SPR 2012;
ERP boot camp, UMCP 2009
Biosemi EEG, OSU 2012;
EGI dEEG, Eugene, OR 2009
EyeLink eye tracking, OSU 2011;
MindWare ECG system, Columbus 2008
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NJ 2010;
NLP Orlando, FL 2011
NIPS Lake Tahoe, 2012
Labview Atlanta, 2014
Brain Mode Atlanta, 2015
ISEK Chicago, 2016
Conferences
IEEE EMBS DC 2005
SFN DC, Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego, 05-12
SPR New Orleans, 2012
MMN NYC 2012;
ERP EPIC Bloomington 2009
NIPS Lake Tahoe 2012
ISEK Chicago, 2016
NRI DC, 2016
SKILLS
Programming Languages: Matlab & Python, ( Familiar with C/C++, Java, PHP, Perl, Pascal, Fortran, R)
Frameworks & Libraries: Familiar with NumPy, TensorFIow, Keras, Scikit-learn, Pandas, Matplotlib, NLTK
Hardware Tools: Labview, VHDL, Schematics
Databases: MySQL
Languages: Fluent in Levantine, English, Arabic, and French;
Creative, visionary, analytic thinker, team builder, integrator, see big picture and attend to details
