Mehrad S. Email & Phone Number

Maryland, United States

Center Of Computational Neuroscience And Neural Technology

• Integrated statistical and ML approaches to identify receptive field structure in neural populations
• Developed multivariate times series deep learning algorithm to classify hippocampal neurons based on their coding properties
• Collaborated with team of 6 to perform neural encoding of rat hippocampus and prefrontal cortex neurons for spatial memory task
• Created a set of efficient spline basis functions for analyzing neural data
• Cooperated with team of 4 to develop statistical model identification methods based on point process generalized linear models

* Trained and mentored 24 undergraduate students in aerodynamics lab, MEC Department* Lectured 16 students in 4 sessions schedule covering flight mechanics and control, MEC Department* Designed assignments and consulted 70 graduate students in deep learning class, ECE Department

Image And Video Computing Lab, Computer Science Department

• Led group of 4 to employ character-level language models (CNN and LSTM) to predict gender fromFacebook statuses of 3.5 million users
• Implemented regression, gradient boosting and random forest for house price estimation with team of 3
• Sentiment analysis of the 2016 presidential election

Aerospace Engineering Department

• Design and simulation of a self-tuning PID controller
• Classical control of reusable launch vehicles

Aerospace Engineering Department

• Automatic Control
• Theoretical Thermodynamics

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Systems Engineering, Gpa: 3.79 (Out Of 4)

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc), Aerospace Engineering, Gpa: 18.34 (Out Of 20)