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CURRENT POSITION Research Scientist – Philips Healthcare, Advanced Algorithm Research Center, 1525 Rancho Conejo Blvd., Suite #100, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA EDUCATION Doctorate Northeastern University, May 2006 Boston, MA, USA Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Thesis Title: 3D Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) for Domains with Piecewise Constant Conductivity Master’s Sharif University of Technology December 1998 Tehran, Iran Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering Department Thesis Title: Performance Improvement of Isolated Word Recognition Systems Using Optimized Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and Artificial Neutral Networks (ANN) Bachelor’s Isfahan University of Technology September 1996 Isfahan, Iran Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering CONTINUING EDUCATION § Cedars-Sinai Medical Center January 2008 Nuclear Cardiology & Cardiac CT: Case Review with the Experts Conference § University of California San Francisco October 2007 Update in Electrocardiography and Arrhythmias § The Heart Rhythm Society May 2007 Heart Rhythm 2007: 28th Annual Scientific Sessions § SkillPath Seminars March 2007 Fundamentals of Successful Project Management § The Academy for Healthcare Education January 2007 12th Annual Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium: Mechanism and New Directions in Therapy § Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education April 2006 Heart Rate Variability 2006: Techniques, Application, and Future Directions
SKILLS
§ Medical imaging, modeling, signal processing, and algorithm development § Digital Signal Processing (DSP) § Statistical signal processing, adaptive filtering, system identification § Proficient programming skills in C++, C#, and MATLAB in different platforms such as MS Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Unix § Experience with Hidden Markov Models (HMM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) § Speech recognition § Image reconstruction algorithm development § Inverse problems § Extensive knowledge of scientific visualization softwares such as VTK and SCIRun § Experience with performing phantom experiments § Experience with analyzing and presenting data from animal and clinical studies § Extensive knowledge of numerical methods such as Boundary Element Methods (BEM) and Finite Element Methods (FEM) § Experience with clinical laboratory equipments § Circuit design, proficient in ORCAD and PROTEL § Extensive knowledge of hardware and software for x86 CPUs and C51 microcontrollers § Familiar with hardware simulation/programming tools such as VERILOG, PSPICE, C51, and MICROCAP Biomedical imaging, modeling, and signal processing
EXPERIENCE
Research Scientist Philips Healthcare, June 2006-Present Thousand Oaks, CA, USA Advanced algorithm research and development in all areas of ECG analysis, including § Arrhythmia analysis § Patient monitoring § Diagnostic electrocardiography § Holter ECG analysis algorithm
Research Assistant Northeastern University, Summer 2002-Spring 2006 Boston, MA, USA Biomedical Forward and Inverse Problems § Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) § Cardiac Electrical Imaging (CEI) also known as Electrocardiography (ECG)
Team Programmer SCI Institute, University of Utah Summer 2002-Present Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Collaborating with Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) and CardioVascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI) groups at the University of Utah testing and developing SCIRun which is an open source scientific programming environment for the Bio-electric Field Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization.
Reviewer Northeastern University, Summer 2005-Present Boston, MA, USA § Journal of “Pattern Recognition Letters”, official publication of “International Association for Pattern Recognition” § IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering § Medical Physics, the scientific journal of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine § Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, official journal of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering
Teaching Assistant Northeastern University Winter-Summer 2002 and Spring 2005 Boston, MA, USA Courses and Laboratories: § Digital Electronics (course and laboratory) § Noise and Stochastic Processes § Electrical Instruments (laboratory) § Digital Design (course) § Digital Signal Processing § High-tech Tools and Toys (laboratory)
Technical Director Nour Issatis Biomedical Co. Ltd., March 2001-Dec. 2001 Tehran, Iran Medical Reagents and Equipments (Hematology Cell Counter): § Plan, organize and control of a service department § Consult and negotiate with clients § Assign and review the technical work
Electronics Engineer Norahan Fajr Co. Inc., Sept. 1997 - March 2001 Tehran, Iran Clinical Laboratory Instruments: § Design a PCbased ‘Full automatic Hematology Cell Counter’ § Quality control and maintenance of clinical laboratory equipments such as: ‘Cell Counter’, ‘Biochemistry Auto Analyzer’, ‘Spectrophotometer’, ‘Eliza Reader’, ‘Blood Gas’ and ‘Electrolyte Analyzer’
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
§ Saeed Babaeizadeh, Eric D. Helfenbein, Sophia H. Zhou, “Stability of Tp-e/QT in a Large ECG Database Based on Computer Measurements,” International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology, Riverside, California, May 2008 § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Sophia H. Zhou, “Monitoring Atrial Fibrillation Burden Using a Miniaturized ECG Recorder,” International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology, Riverside, California, May 2008 § Saeed Babaeizadeh, James Russell, Stacy Gehman, James W. Taylor, Sophia H. Zhou, “A Novel Miniaturized ECG Recorder to Monitor Atrial Fibrillation,” Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium, January 2008 § Saeed Babaeizadeh and Dana H. Brooks, “Electrical Impedance Tomography for Piecewise Constant Domains Using Boundary Element Shape-based Inverse Solutions,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 26, No. 9, May 2007 § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dana H. Brooks, and David Isaacson, “3-D Electrical Impedance Tomography for Piecewise Constant Domains With Known Internal Boundaries,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 54, No. 1, Jan. 2007 § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dana H. Brooks, David Isaacson, and Jonathan C. Newell, “Electrode Boundary Conditions and Experimental Validation for BEM-based EIT Forward and Inverse Solutions,” IEEE Transaction on Medical Imaging, Vol. 25, No. 9, Sept. 2006 § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Sophia Zhou, Xia Liu, Wenying Hu, Dirk Feild, Eric Helfenbein, Richard Gregg, James Lindauer, “A Novel Heart Rate Variability Index for Evaluation of Left Ventricular Function Using Five-minute ECG,” Computers in Cardiology, Durham, North Carolina, 2007 § Rich Gregg, Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dirk Feild, Eric D. Helfenbein, “Comparison of Two Automated Methods for QT Interval Measurement,” Computers in Cardiology, Durham, North Carolina, 2007 § Eric D. Helfenbein, Michael J. Ackerman, Pentti M. Rautaharju, Sophia H. Zhou, Richard E. Gregg, James M. Lindauer, David Miller, John J. Wang, Scott S. Kresge, Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dirk Q. Feild, Francis P. Michaud, “An Algorithm for QT Interval Monitoring in Neonatal Intensive-Care Units,” Journal of Electrocardiology, Vol. 40, Nov-Dec 2007 § Saeed Babaeizadeh and Dana H. Brooks, “Imaging Error from Mislocation of Surface Sensors: Sensitivity, Detection, and Estimate Correction, with Application to EIT,” ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France § Saeed Babaeizadeh and Dana H. Brooks, “Effects of Electrode Location Error on Boundary Element Impedance Tomography Solutions: CR Bounds and Simulation Results,” ISBI 2006, Arlington, Virginia, USA § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dana H. Brooks, David Isaacson, and Jonathan C. Newell, “Experimental Validation of Forward and Inverse Solutions for Electrical Impedance Tomography Using the Boundary Element Method,” International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, No. 1, Volume 7, 2005 § Saeed Babaeizadeh and Dana H. Brooks, “Spherical Harmonics for Shape-based Inverse Problems, as Applied to Electrical Impedance Tomography,” Electronic Imaging 2006, San Jose, California, USA § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dana H. Brooks, and David Isaacson, “A deformable-radius B-Spline method for shape-based inverse problems, as applied to Electrical Impedance Tomography,” IEEE ICASSP 2005, Philadelphia, PA, USA § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dana H. Brooks, and David Isaacson, “Electrical Impedance Tomography Using a 3D Boundary Element Inverse Solution,” Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems 2004, Pacific Grove, CA, USA § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dana H. Brooks, and David Isaacson, “A 3D Boundary Element Solution to the Forward Problem of Electrical Impedance Tomography,” IEEE EMBS 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dana H. Brooks, David Isaacson, Jonathan C. Newell, and Rob Macleod, “Experimental Validation of Forward and Inverse Solutions for Electrical Impedance Tomography Using the Boundary Element Method,” CenSSIS RICC 2005, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dana H. Brooks, David Isaacson, and Rob Macleod, “Boundary Element Methods for Electrical Impedance Tomography,” CenSSIS RICC 2004, NEU, Boston, MA, USA § Saeed Babaeizadeh, Dana H. Brooks, David Isaacson, Jonathan C. Newell, and Rob Macleod, “The 3D Boundary Element Method for Forward and Inverse Electrical Impedance Tomography,” NCRR Site Visit 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA § Saeed Babaeizadeh and Dana H. Brooks, “Using Electrical Impedance Tomography for Inverse Electrocardiography,” CDSP 2004, NEU, Boston, MA, USA § Saeed Babaeizadeh and Dana H. Brooks, “Boundary Element Methods for Electrocardiography,” CDSP 2003, NEU, Boston, MA, USA PATENTS § “QT Interval Monitoring System with Alarms and Trending”, Inventors: Eric Helfenbein, Saeed Babaeizadeh, Sophia Zhou, Rich Gregg, Jim Lindauer, Fran Michaud, Scott Kresge, Bernd Wilm, Kathryn Egan, Nancy Mutch, Assignee: Philips Medical Systems § “Atrial Fibrillation Monitoring Method, ” Pending, Assignee: Philips Medical Systems
HONORS AND AWARDS
§ Included in the 10th Anniversary (2008-2009) Edition of Marquis “Who's Who in Science and Engineering”, scheduled for publication in December 2007 § Considered for inclusion in the forthcoming 110th Anniversary (2009) Edition of Marquis “Who's Who in America” § Recognized by Cambridge “Who’s Who – Executives and Professionals” as an honored member (2007-2008 Edition) § Selected as a recipient of the conference registration fee waivers for the BEM&NFSI (2005) § Research scholarship, Northeastern University (2002-2006) § Teaching scholarship, Northeastern University (2002) § Ranked 3rd in biomedical engineering graduates from Sharif University (1998) § Ranked 7th in nationwide university entrance exam for graduate program (1996) § Ranked 3rd in electrical engineering graduates from Isfahan University of Technology (1996) § Ranked 94th in nationwide university entrance exam for undergraduate program (1992) AFFILIATIONS § Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2004-present) § Member of International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology (ISCE) (2008-present) § Honored member of Cambridge Who’s Who § Member of the Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) (20032006) § Member of the Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP) Center for Research and Graduate Studies at Northeastern University (20022006)
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