My CV - Sepideh Dolatshahi

Sepideh Dolatshahi
Contact
Information
Education
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
313 Ferst Drive
Atlanta, Georgia 30332
lab phone: (404) 385-7121
E-mail: [email protected]
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering (Ongoing)
• Advisor: Prof. Eberhard Voit
• Research area: Biological Systems Analysis, Metabolic Pathway Modeling
• Research lab: Laboratory for Biological Systems Analysis
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA USA
Non-thesis M.S., Bioengineering , May2013
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA USA
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, September 2009
• Thesis Topic: Information Theoretic Identification and Compensation of Nonlinear
Devices
• Advisors: Professor Dennis Goeckel and Prof. Hossein Pishro-Nik
• Area of Study: Telecommunications and Signal Processing
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering, July 2007
• Area of study: Telecommunications and Signal Processing under the supervision of Prof. Said
Nader-Esfahani
Research
Interests
Systems and Synthetic Biology
Biological Systems Analysis
Metabolic Pathway Modeling
Information Theory
Signal Processing
Publications
1. Sepideh dolatshahi, Luis L. Fonseca, Eberhard O. Voit, “New insights into the complex regulation
of the glycolytic pathway in Lactococcus lactis,” in preparation for submission.
2. Sepideh Dolatshahi, Brani Vidakovic, Eberhard O. Voit , “A Constrained Wavelet Smoother for
Pathway Identification Tasks in Systems Biology,” Computers and Chemical Engineering (2014)
special issue on Bio-systems Modeling and Engineering, doi:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2014.07.019
3. Adam C. Polak, Sepideh Dolatshahi, Dennis L. Goeckel, “Identifying Wireless Users via Transmitter
Imperfections,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, VOL. 29, NO. 7: 1469-1479,
August 2011.
4. S. Dolatshahi, A. Polak, and D. Goeckel,“Identification of Wireless Users via Power Amplifier
Imperfections,” Proceedings of the 2010 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers,
November 2010.
5. Sepideh Dolatshahi, ”Information Theoretic Identification and Compensation of Nonlinear Devices”, Masters thesis, September 2009.
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Honors
• Ranked 96th among 399,321 competitors in the B.Sc. (Math and Technical group) Nation-wide
University Entrance Exam in Iran, June 2003.
Poster sessions
• Sepideh Dolatshahi, Brani Vidakovic, Eberhard Voit, “Refined Methods of Information Retrieval
from Metabolic Time Series Data: Constrained Iterative Wavelet-based Smoothing, ” presented at
8th International Conference on Bioinformatics, November 10 - 12, 2011, Atlanta, GA.
• Sepideh Dolatshahi, Eberhard Voit, “Computational Systems Analysis of the Glycolytic Pathway in
Lactococcus lactis,” presented at The sixth q-bio conference,August 2012, Santa Fe, NM.
• Sepideh Dolatshahi, Eberhard Voit, “Computational Systems Analysis of the Glycolytic Pathway in
Lactococcus lactis(updated version),” presented at BMES Annual meeting, October 2012, Atlanta,
GA.
• Sepideh Dolatshahi, Luis L. Fonseca, and Eberhard Voit, “Extended dynamic flux estimation of a
model of the glycolytic pathway in the dairy bacterium Lactococcus lactis,” presented at Frontiers in
Systems and Synthetic Biology13, March 2013, Atlanta, GA.
• Sepideh Dolatshahi, Luis L. Fonseca, and Eberhard Voit, “Kinetic dynamic model of the Lactococcus
lactis,” presented at HHMI quantitative Biology Conference, June 2013, Atlanta, GA.
Laboratory
Experiences
Professional
Presentations
Teaching
Experiences
• Summer 2011 : Wet lab experiment experience at Dr. Yusuf Hannun’s lab, Medical University
of South Carolina on Stress Responses in Sphingolipid pathway in yeast. Dr. Hannun is currently
at Stony Brook School of Medicine.
Methods: RT-PCR
• “Computational Systems Analysis of the Glycolytic Pathway in Lactococcus lactis,” presented at
the Graduate and Post-Doc (GaP) Seminar Series, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and
Bioscience (IBB) and Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, April 4, 2012.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
TA: Signals and Systems
Fall 2007
TA:Introduction to Probability and Random Processes
Spring 2008
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
TA: Digital Signal Processing
Fall 2006
TA:Electronics Lab I
Fall 2006
TA: Electrical Ciruits II
Fall 2005 and Spring 2006
Computational
Skills
Engineering and Mathematics: Biochemical system theory(BST), Metabolic pathway modeling, linear algebra, convex optimization, biostatistics, nonlinear optimization, information theory, probability
and random processes, signal processing/DSP, stochastic differential equations, adaptive filter theory,
probabilistic combinatorics
Computer science: Machine learning, algorithms, computational complexity, randomized algorithms.
Relavent
Computer
Skills
MATLAB, LATEX, C++, Weka, WinBUGS
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Languages
Fluent in English and Persian, Intermediate French
Summer schools Attended Computational Cell Biology summer course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,
and Workshops summer 2013
Attended BMES Annual meeting, October 2012, Atlanta, GA
Attended The sixth q-bio conference,August 2012, Santa Fe, NM
Attended 8th International Conference on Bioinformatics, November 10 - 12, 2011, Atlanta, GA
Attended IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2010) June 13-18, 2010,
Austin, TX
Attended 2010 School of Information Theory, August 5-8, 2010, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA
Activities and
Services
- Guest lecturer, ”Intro to agent-based models as an alternative to ODE methods” for Integrative Core
3 course: Problem Solving with Computational models, Fall 2013 and Fall 2014, Biomedical Engineering
department, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Organizing committee member, Frontiers in Systems and Synthetic Biology Conference
’13 , March 2013
- Graduate Leadership Program 2012-2013 participant, Georgia Institute of Technology, graduated May 2013
- Judge , 8th Annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium (UROP) at Georgia Tech , April 2013
- Judge , 9th Annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium (UROP) at Georgia Tech , April 2014
- Family Science Night speaker , Mimosa Elementary School, January 2013
References
Prof. Eberhard Voit
Georgia Institute of Technology
Phone: (404) 385-5057 Email: [email protected]
Prof. Brani Vidakovic
Georgia Institute of Technology
Phone: (404) 385-7246 Email: [email protected]
Dr. Erik Verriest
Georgia Institute of Technology
Phone: (404) 894-2949 Email: [email protected]
Dr. Melissa Kemp
Georgia Institute of Technology
Phone: (404) 385-6341 Email: [email protected]
Prof. Dennis Goeckel
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Phone: (413) 545-3514 Email: [email protected]
Prof. Hossein Pishro-Nik
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Phone: (413) 577-0834 Email: [email protected]
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