Nayef Ahmar is a seasoned brain - body research and development engineer with more than a decade experience in bio signal processing and pattern recognition. He researched or published in a wide area including cognitive neuro/science, behavioral analysis, motor control, artifact removal, adaptive signal processing, and many more. He specializes in the processing of electric and magnetic cortical time series (EEG / ERP / MEG), muscular (EMG), cardiac (EKG) and other physiological signals. Nayef earned his PhD (Bio-signal processing, physiology, and human robot interaction) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) with a minor in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2018; MS (adaptive filtering of MEG brain signals) and BS in ECE from University of Maryland College Park in 2005 and 1999 respectively. He started his career in signal processing two decades ago applied to satellite radio communication and digital networks. Shortly after, he found his calling is rather in mining human behavioral, cognitive, and neural time series.
Nayef's practical and professional experience is diverse: (1) He worked and consulted for many R&D startups in bio-data analysis including neuro-marketing, fetal heart rate detection and estimation and various EEG applications. (2) Participated in the expansion of neuroscience department at Ohio State University by directing multiple EEG labs while researching memory, attention, multisensory processing, learning, cognitive development and autistic condition; (3) He also motivated, founded and developed Olphas, a bold idea to reinvent human online communication system.
Ahmar ultimate goal is in developing tools that detect human behavior and empower people to change their physical, emotional and cognitive states as they wish. He lives day to day by the motto - enjoy life independent of time, place, action, and form.
