Biography
My name is Mohammad, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. I received both my Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Iran, in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology in 2007 and 2009, respectively.
My name is Mohammad, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. I received both my Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Iran, in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tehran and Sharif University of Technology in 2007 and 2009, respectively.
I came to the United States in 2009 to continue my study as a PhD student at Texas A&M University, where I joined Dr. Ed Dougherty group to do research on Genomic Signal Processing. Ed was truly an inspirational character by whom I deeply understood what research means and how to see and tackle problems. I deeply enjoyed working in his group, where I developed multiple methods for supervised learning problems. I am in particular proud of two research achievements during my PhD: (1) development of the concept of prior construction (something that had been ignored for decades) using optimization framework to 'objectively' convert somewhat qualitative knowledge into 'testable information', i.e. prior probabilities, and (2) development of the concept of 'minimax sampling' in imbalanced classification problems.
I came to the United States in 2009 to continue my study as a PhD student at Texas A&M University, where I joined Dr. Ed Dougherty group to do research on Genomic Signal Processing. Ed was truly an inspirational character by whom I deeply understood what research means and how to see and tackle problems. I deeply enjoyed working in his group, where I developed multiple methods for supervised learning problems. I am in particular proud of two research achievements during my PhD: (1) development of the concept of prior construction (something that had been ignored for decades) using optimization framework to 'objectively' convert somewhat qualitative knowledge into 'testable information', i.e. prior probabilities, and (2) development of the concept of 'minimax sampling' in imbalanced classification problems.
Eager to be further trained for cancer systems biology, and implement what I learned in translational problems I contacted Dr. Ash Alizadeh and Dr. Max Diehn to join their groups at Stanford University. At the time, CAPP-Seq (a novel noninvasive assay developed in Alizadeh and Diehn labs in 2014) was starting to take off and there were a wide range of applications, and so it was a great opportunity for me to learn and use my expertise to improve and develop new aspects at Stanford, so I joined the two labs in January 2015. I was lucky to collaborate with amazing PhD students, postdocs and medical fellows during my post-doc time at Stanford. And due to these collaborations I could successfully develop multiple methods for using cell-free DNA and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) for various applications.
Eager to be further trained for cancer systems biology, and implement what I learned in translational problems I contacted Dr. Ash Alizadeh and Dr. Max Diehn to join their groups at Stanford University. At the time, CAPP-Seq (a novel noninvasive assay developed in Alizadeh and Diehn labs in 2014) was starting to take off and there were a wide range of applications, and so it was a great opportunity for me to learn and use my expertise to improve and develop new aspects at Stanford, so I joined the two labs in January 2015. I was lucky to collaborate with amazing PhD students, postdocs and medical fellows during my post-doc time at Stanford. And due to these collaborations I could successfully develop multiple methods for using cell-free DNA and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) for various applications.