Experience

University of British Columbia

Research Associate · Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2016–2022.
Robotics and Control Laboratory (RCL) · Supervisor: Prof. Septimiu (Tim) Salcudean.

Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Postdoc, 2024–2025 · Fetal brain imaging.
Computational Radiology Laboratory (CRL) · PI: Prof. Davood Karimi.

University of Alberta

M.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, 2014–2016.
Advanced Alarm Management and Design (AAMD) · Supervisor: Prof. Tongwen Chen.
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 2010–2014 · With Distinction.

Awards

IEEE UFFC Outstanding Paper Award 3-D Ultrafast Shear Wave Absolute Vibro-Elastography Using a Matrix Array Transducer
Hoda S. Hashemi, Shahed K. Mohammed, Qi Zeng, Reza Zahiri Azar, Robert N. Rohling, and Septimiu E. Salcudean. IEEE TUFFC, 2023.

MICCAI MedIA Best Paper Award Accurate and robust deep learning-based segmentation of the prostate clinical target volume in ultrasound images
Davood Karimi, Qi Zeng, Prateek Mathur, Apeksha Avinash, Sara Mahdavi, Ingrid Spadinger, Purang Abolmaesumi, and Septimiu E. Salcudean. Medical Image Analysis, 2019.

C.R. James Award for Best Master of Science Thesis — ECE, University of Alberta.