Reza Abiri

Research

  • Robotics
  • Artificial Intelligence (ML, DL, RL)
  • Brain Machine Interfaces
  • Mechatronics
  • Control Systems 
  • Exoskeletons
  • Bio-Signal Processing
  • Computer Vision

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley, 2021
  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2017
  • M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2011
  • B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2009

Selected Publications

Cetera A, KafiKang M, Petrou D, Abiri R. Emergence of Neural Activity in Hand Preshaping to Grasp using Noninvasive EEG. The Society of Neuroscience, 2022.
Silversmith DB, Abiri R, Hardy NF, et al. Plug-and-play control of a brain-computer interface through neural map stabilization. Nature Biotechnology, 2021; 39(3), 326-335. doi: 10.1038/s41587-020-0662-5
Abbink DA, Abiri R, Ahad MAR, Akiyama Y. 2020 Index IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems Vol. 50. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 2020; 50(6), 632-642. doi: 10.1109/THMS.2020.3033957
Abiri R, Borhani S, Kilmarx J, et al. A usability study of low-cost wireless brain-computer interface for cursor control using online linear model. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 2020; 50(4), 287-297. doi: 10.1109/THMS.2020.2983848
Abdallah MB, Abdolmanafi A, Abdulkarim B. 2019 Index IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics Vol. 23. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019; 23(6), 2677-2731. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2020.2966416
Borhani S, Abiri R, Jiang Y, Berger T, Zhao X. Brain connectivity evaluation during selective attention using EEG-based brain-computer interface. Brain-Computer Interfaces, 2019; 6(1-2), 25-35. doi: 10.1080/2326263X.2019.1651186
Abiri R, Borhani S, Jiang Y, Zhao X. Decoding attentional state to faces and scenes using EEG brainwaves. Complexity, 2019; 2019, 10. doi: 10.1155/2019/6862031
Borhani S, Kilmarx J, Saffo D, et al. Optimizing Prediction Model for a Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface Platform Using Channel Selection, Classification, and Regression. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2019; 23(6), 2475-2482. doi: 10.1109.JBHI.2019.2892379
Abiri R, Borhani S, Sellers EW, Jiang Y, Zhao X. A comprehensive review of EEG-based brain-computer interface paradigms. Journal of Neural Engineering, 2019; 16(1), 011001. doi: 10.1088/1741-2552/aaf12e
Borhani S, Abiri R, Esfahani S, et al. Decoding Visual Attentional State Using EEG-based BCI. 2018 Annual Meeting Society for Neuroscience (SfN2018), 2018. 
Saffo D, Kilmarx J, Borhani S, et al. Convolutional Neural Networks for a Cursor Control Brain Computer Interface. 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, 2018.
Borhani S, Yu J, Cate J, et al. Clash of Minds: A BCI Car Racing Game in Simulated Virtual Reality Environment. 2018 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, 2018.
Kilmarx J, Abiri R, Borhani S, Jiang Y, Zhao X. Sequence-based manipulation of robotic arm control in brain machine interface. International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications, 2018; 2(2), 149-160. doi: 10.1007/s41315-018-0049-7
Borhani S, Abiri R, Muhammad J, Jiang Y, Zhao X. EEG-based Visual Attentional State Decoding Using Convolutional Neural Network. 7th International BCI Meeting, 2018; 1-D-32.

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