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I am currently a Research Fellow in Neuropsychiatric Disorders at Janssen R&D, Johnson & Johnson, where I focus on large-scale analyses and integration of neuroimaging (rs-fMRI, structural MRI, DTI), genomic, proteomic, and cognitive data to identify biological signatures associated with neuropsychiatric subtypes. I also contribute to the Human Omics project by developing and validating a GWAS-based prioritization framework for drug target identification.

Previously, I joined the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University as a postdoctoral researcher, under the mentorship of Prof. Martin Lindquist (2020 - 2023). My research there centered on analyzing brain connectivity patterns using computational models such as graph theory and machine learning, applied to functional and anatomical neuroimaging data.

I earned my Ph.D. in the Computational Neuroergonomics track of the Industrial & Systems Engineering program at the University of Central Florida (2016 - 2020), under the supervision of Prof. Waldemar Karwowski. Also, I was honored to have scientific collaborations with Prof. Pamela K. Douglas and Nichole K. Lighthall during my Ph.D. My doctoral work focused on understanding the brain as a complex system and investigating how information is integrated across specialized neural units in spatially disparate brain regions.

Before my Ph.D., I completed my MSc (2013 - 2016) and BSc (2009 - 2013) degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), where I had the pleasure of working with Profs. Abass Ahmadi and MH Fazel Zarandi.