{"id":199,"date":"2013-08-05T17:10:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T21:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.research.ece.ncsu.edu\/vissta\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2017-03-14T11:53:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T15:53:23","slug":"saba-emrani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/vissta\/former-students\/saba-emrani\/","title":{"rendered":"Saba Emrani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2013\/08\/Figure2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-441\" src=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2013\/08\/Figure2-300x234.png\" alt=\"Figure2\" width=\"90\" height=\"70\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/vissta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2013\/08\/Figure2-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/vissta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2013\/08\/Figure2.png 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=Ff4WgooAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">GoogleScholar<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/saba-emrani-phd-141b4039\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/sabaemrani\">Github<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2013\/08\/CV2.pdf\">CV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finished my\u00a0PhD in July 2016 in Electrical Engineering at North Carolina State University. During my PhD studies, I was\u00a0affiliated with the\u00a0NSF Nanosystems Engineering Research Center (NERC) for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (<a href=\"http:\/\/assist.ncsu.edu\/\">ASSIST<\/a>) at NCSU. I received my MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of New Mexico, NM and Tehran Polytechnic, Iran, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research interests:\u00a0<\/strong>Data Mining, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Statistical Modeling, Algorithm Development, Digital Audio Analysis, Optimization, Biomedical Data Analysis, Applied Mathematics, Classification, Clustering, Pattern Recognition, Graph Mining<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My research revolves around developing efficient, real time and accurate data mining\u00a0and signal processing techniques to analyze physiological data\u00a0such as breathing sounds, ECG, pulse oxometry, EEG and MEG signals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>J1.\u00a0<\/strong>&#8220;Effective Connectivity-Based Neural Decoding: A Causal Interaction-Driven Approach&#8221;, preprint,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1607.07078\">arXiv:1607.07078<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J2. <\/strong>&#8220;A Novel Framework for Pulse Pressure Wave Analysis Using Persistent Homology&#8221;,\u00a0<em>Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, vol.22, no.11, pp.1879-1883, Nov. 2015<\/em>, with T. S. Saponas and D. Morris.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J3.<\/strong>&#8220;Persistent Homology of Delay Embeddings and its Application to Wheeze Detection,&#8221; <em>Signal Processing Letters, IEEE, vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 459-463, April 2014, <\/em>with T. Gentimis and H. Krim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>J4.<\/strong>&#8220;Coverage control in unknown environments using neural networks&#8221;, <em>Artificial Intelligence Review, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 237-255, 2012, <\/em>with A. Dirafzoon<em>, <\/em>S. M. A Salehizadeh and M. B. Menhaj.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C1 .<\/strong>&#8220;A Model-Free Causality Measure Based on Multivariate Delay Embedding&#8221;, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP\u201917), with H. Krim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C2 .<\/strong>&#8220;Spectral Estimation of Highly Transient Data&#8221;, 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015)<em>, <\/em>with H. Krim <a href=\"https:\/\/research.ece.ncsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2013\/08\/pdf.pdf\">[pdf]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C3<\/strong>.&#8221;Robust Detection of Periodic Patterns in Gene Expression Microarray Data using Topological Signal Analysis&#8221;, <em>GlobalSIP14- Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS\u201914), <\/em>with H. Krim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C4<\/strong>. &#8220;Real Time Detection of Harmonic Structure: a Case for Topological Signal Analysis&#8221;, <em>2014 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP\u201914), <\/em>with Chintakunta and H. Krim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C5<\/strong>. \u00a0&#8220;Wheeze Detection and Location using Spectro-temporal Analysis of Lung Sounds&#8221;, <em>The 29th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, SBEC 2013, <\/em>with H. Krim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C6<\/strong>. &#8220;Adaptive Decentralized Formation Control of Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles&#8221;, <em>Control Applications (CCA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on<\/em>, Denver, USA, Sept. 2011, pp 693-698, with A. Dirafzoon and H. A. Talebi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C7<\/strong>. &#8220;Leader-Follower Formation Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles with Limited Communication, in <em>Control Applications (CCA), 2011 IEEE International Conference on<\/em>, Denver, USA, Sept. 2011, pp 921-926, with A. Dirafzoon, and H. A. Talebi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C8<\/strong>.&#8221;Adaptive Leader-Follower Formation Control for Multiple AUVs in Spatial Motion&#8221;, in <em>36th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society<\/em>, IECON 2010, USA, pp. 59-64, with A. Dirafzoon, H. A. Talebi and S. K. Y. Nikravesh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C9<\/strong>.&#8221;Virtual Force Based Individual Particle Optimization for Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks&#8221;, in <em>23rd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, CCECE 2010<\/em>, Calgary, Canada, May 2010, pp. 1-4, with A. Dirafzoon, S. M. A. Salehizadeh and M.B. Menhaj.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C10<\/strong>.&#8221;Individual Particle Optimized Functional Link Neural Network for Real-time Identi_cation of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems&#8221;, <em>The 5<sup>th<\/sup> IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA, 2010<\/em>, pp. 35-40, with S. M. A. Salehizadeh, A. Dirafzoon and M.B. Menhaj.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C11<\/strong>.&#8221;Fuzzy Virtual Torque Approach for Coverage Control of Nonholonomic Mobile Robots&#8221;, in <em>2010 world congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, WCICA 2010<\/em>, with A. Dirafzoon, S. M. A. Salehizadeh and M.B. Menhaj.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C12<\/strong>.&#8221;Coverage Control for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots Using Virtual Force Field&#8221;, in <em>2010 IEEE International Conference on Control &amp; Automation, ICCA 2010<\/em>, with A. Dirafzoon, S. M. A. Salehizadeh, M. B. Menhaj, and A. Afshar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>C13<\/strong>.\u201cCoverage Control for Mobile Sensing Robots in Unknown Environments Using Neural Networks\u201d, in <em>Intelligent Control (ISIC), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on<\/em>, Sept. 2010, with A. Dirafzoon, S.M.A. Salehizadeh, M.B. Menhaj and A. 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