Brief Bio

 Parvez Ahammad is currently a Bioinformatics Research Specialist in Dr. Eugene Myers' group at Janelia Farm Research Campus (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) after spending an year as a postdoctoral research fellow. He received his Ph.D. in May 2008 from EECS department at UC-Berkeley. Prior to that, he received Masters in Computer Science from UC-Berkeley, Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Central Florida and Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics and Communication) with distinction from Osmania University, India. His research interests are in signal processing, computer vision and statistical learning with specific emphasis on applications related to high-throughput biology, computational neuroscience and networks of cameras.

Teaching

Lecturer :
- Neuroinformatics 2010 (Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, MA : Summer 2010)
- Programming with Matlab for Biologists (Janelia Farm Research Campus, HHMI, Ashburn, VA : Fall 2008)

Guest Lecturer :
- CS-294-1: Medical Image Processing (UC-Berkeley : Spring 2006)
- EECS C145B: Image Processing and Reconstruction Tomography (UC-Berkeley : Spring 2005)
- EE 221A: Linear Systems Theory (UC-Berkeley : Fall 2003)

Graduate Student Instructor / Teaching Assistant :
- Spring 2008 :: UC-Berkeley :: Introduction to Microelectronic Circuits (EE 40)
- Spring 2005 :: UC-Berkeley :: Image Processing and Reconstruction Tomography (EECS C145B/ BioE C165)
- August 1999 - May 2001 :: UCF :: Introduction to Digital Signal Processing, Advanced Topics in Digital Signal Processing, Electrical Networks lab, Senior Design Lab, Introduction to Computer Science, Electronics - II, Electrical Networks.

Mentorship

 - Summer 2005 :: Mentor for SUPERB program for Undergraduate Research.
- Summer 2009 :: Mentor for Janelia Undergraduate Research Scholars program.

Activities

Conference Reviewer :
ECCV, CVPR, ICCV, ICDSC, MMSP.

Journal Reviewer :
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics and IEEE Communications magazine.

- Member of IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society, ACM, IEEE Computer Society  and SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers).
- Officer for: EEGSA (2002- 2006) [organizer for the EE faculty candidate interviews with the panel of student representatives and webmaster], VERTEX (2002-2005) [webmaster and fundraising for Innovator's Challenge].

Last update: Nov 2009.