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      Nastaran Saffaryazdi

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  • 2024
    1. Human-Human synchronization based on behavioural, physiological and neurological cues
    2. Using digital humans for managing chronic disease and integrating emotion recognition system with it
  • 2023 - 2024
    1. Research on stress recognition
    2. Research on physiology of emotion
    3. Collaborating in digital twins for managing chronic disease project in Auckland bioengineering Institute


  • 2019 - 2023
    1. Research on empathetic interaction with Digital Human
    2. Integrating Octopus Sensing Real-time processing with a digital human from SoulMachines co..
    3. Designing Octopus-Sensing software suite which is a research software suite for emotion recognition in real-time using behavioural and physiological data.
    4. Creating several dataset from behavioral and physiological signals in response to different emotional stimuli.
    5. Research on EEG and physiological emotional data analysis.
    6. Running several studies for collecting and analysing emotional data during watching video and conversation
    7. Collaborating in Hyperscanning project in Empathic Computing lab
  • 2018 - 2019
    1. Research on different applications and tasks in robotic manipulation and grasping
    2. Research on robotic subtask surgery specially tissue retraction
    3. Research on using deep learning methods in grasp planning
    4. Research on using Deep learning methods in detection and localiza- tion task of robots
    5. Research on different shape analysis methods and using them for extracting object’s features
    6. Research on vision-based robotic leaf plucking in Grape harvestin


  • 2012-2017
    1. Working as an enterprise software developer of the best-selling retail banking software of Iran
    2. Integrating core-banking software with third-party software applications using various protocols
    3. Developing enterprise multi-platform Python application framework
  • 2016
    1. Analyzing banking data with Matlab for modelling banking software behaviour
  • 2015
    1. Comparing and benchmarking different data serializers for .net, python, windows and Linux
  • 2011
    1. Implementing a new method for Palette Reordering in Compression of Color-indexed images According to Particle Swarm Optimization
  • 2010
    1. Master Thesis: “Lossless Compression of ROI in Coronary Angiogram Sequences”, Abstract
  • 2009
    1. Research on ”Brain Computer Interface and Control of Robots with Brain”
    2. Implementation of a CPU to do Basic Math functions using VHDL”
    3. Implementation of an enhanced multiplier with the least hardware and also Implementation of a fast multiplier using VHDL (It is designed to be faster than regular multipliers)
  • 2008
    1. A survey on Implemented algorithms and ideas on Satisfiability Problem Research on ”Leading Zero Anticipator (LZA) for high-speed floating point units”
  • 2007
    1. Research on ”Dynamic pipelining and power reduction”
    2. Research on ”Task Scheduling Algorithms for Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Environments”
  • 2006
    1. Bachelor Thesis: “Distributed Searching Using CORBA”
  • 2005
    1. Research on ”Brain Computer Interface and its types”