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I am a Ph.D. student in the Communications Group, in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. I am under the supervision of Dr. Anastasios (Tas) Venetsanopoulos .

My reserach is focused on the development of image processing techniques for automated analysis of MR images of the brain. In particular, such schemes will be utilized to automatically quantify white matter lesions (a neurodegenerative disease). The application of such research results in software-based devices, which assist physicians in quantification of pathology. Such objective analysis is not available with traditional radiology technniques.

I received a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in 2004 and a Master's of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.) degree in 2006, both from Ryerson University. The title of my M.A.Sc. thesis was "Multiresolutional Analysis for Classification and Compression of Medical Images". In 2006, I was awarded the Governor General's Gold Medal for outstanding M.A.Sc. thesis and academic excellence.

I am the Regional Student Representative for IEEE Canada and the Chair of IEEE Toronto's GOLD group. I also offer Consulting Services through Khademi Consulting in the biomedical, signal and image processing domains.