Danial Lashkari
Contact
Information
32 Vassar Street, 32D-474
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Voice: (617) 452-2124
E-mail: danial@csail.mit.edu
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Jun. 2011,
• Thesis title:
In Search of Functional Specificity in the Brain: Generative Models for Group fMRI Data.
• Advisors:
Polina Golland,
Nancy Kanwisher,
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,
McGovern Institute for Brain Research.
• Minor: Theoretical Physics.
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sep. 2005.
B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sep. 2004.
Professional Computer Vision Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT,
and Research Cambridge, MA USA.
Experience
Postdoctoral Associate
Jun., 2011 - present
Computer Vision Group, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT,
Cambridge, MA USA.
Research Assistant
Sep., 2006 - May, 2011
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTI-C), Chicago, IL USA
Summer Intern
Jun., 2008 - Sep., 2008
Optical and Quantum Communications Group, Research Laboratory of Electronics,
MIT, Cambridge, MA USA.
Research Assistant
Sep., 2005 - Sep., 2006
Optical Technologies Group, Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC), Tehran,
Iran
Summer Intern
Honors and
Awards
Jun., 2003 - Sep., 2003
HP Fellowship, spring 2011.
MIT EECS Graduate Alumni Fellowship, summer 2006.
First place, Iranian national entrance exam for Masters Degree Programs in the area of Telecom-
munications, 2004.
Youth Fellowship, International Telecommunication Union, Telecom Asia, Busan, Korea, Sept. 2004.
The University of Tehran Honored B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, 2nd rank in the class of 2004.
The University of Tehran F.O.E Award, 2002, 2003.
Khwarizmi Student Award, 11th International Khwarizmi Research Festival, Tehran, Iran, 1998.
Publications
B.T.T. Yeo, F. Krienen, J. Sepulcre, M. Sabuncu, D. Lashkari, M. Hollinshead, J. Roffman, J.
Smoller, L. Zollei, J. Polimeni, B. Fischl, H. Liu, and R. Buckner, “The organization of the human
cortex revealed by intrinsic functional connectivity,” Journal of Neurophysiology, in press.
G. Langs, D. Lashkari, A. Sweet, Y. Tie, L. Rigolo, A. Golby, and P. Golland, “Learning an atlas
of a cognitive process in its functional geometry,” accepted in IPMI: International Conference on
Information Processing and Medical Imaging, 2011.
G. Langs, B. Menze, D. Lashkari, and P. Golland, “Detecting stable distributed patterns of brain
activation using Gini contrast,” NeuroImage, 56(2):497-507, 2011.
D. Lashkari, R. Sridharan, P. Golland, “Categories and functional units: an infinite hierarchical
model for brain activations,” in NIPS: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2010.
B. Menze, K. Van Leemput, D. Lashkari, M.A. Weber, N. Ayache, and P. Golland, “A generative
model for brain tumor segmentation in multi-modal images,” in Proc. MICCAI: International
Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, LNCS 6362:151-159,
2010.
D. Lashkari, R. Sridharan, E. Vul, P-J. Hsieh, N.G. Kanwisher, P. Golland, “Nonparametric hierarchical Bayesian model for functional brain parcellation,” in Proc. MMBIA: IEEE Computer Society
Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, 15-22, 2010.
D. Lashkari, E. Vul, N.G. Kanwisher, and P. Golland, “Discovering structure in the space of fMRI
selectivity profiles,” NeuroImage, 3(15):1085-1098 2010.
D. Lashkari and P. Golland, “Exploratory fMRI analysis without spatial normalization,” in Proc. of
IPMI: International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging, LNCS 5636:398-410,
2009. Honorable Mention for the Erbsmann Award.
D. Lashkari and P. Golland, “’Co-clustering with generative models,” MIT CSAIL Technical Report,
MIT-CSAIL-TR-2009-054, 2009.
P. Golland, D. Lashkari, and A. Venkataraman, “Spatial patterns and functional profiles for discovering structure in fMRI data,” in Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers,
1402-1409, 2008. Invited Paper.
D. Lashkari, E. Vul, N.G. Kanwisher, and P. Golland, “Discovering structure in the space of activation profiles in fMRI,” in Proc. of MICCAI: International Conference on Medical Image Computing
and Computer Assisted Intervention, LNCS 5241:1015-1024, 2008.
D. Lashkari and P. Golland, “Convex clustering with exemplar-based models,” in NIPS: Advances
in Neural Information Processing Systems, 20:825–832, 2008.
Working
Papers
D. Lashkari and P. Golland, “Functional brain parcellation across subjects without spatial normalization.”
E. Vul, D. Lashkari, P.-J. Hsieh, P. Golland and N. Kanwisher, “Hypothesis-neutral methods reveal
dominance of face, place, and body selectivity in the ventral visual pathway.”
Abstracts
D. Lashkari, E. Vul, P. Hsieh, P. Golland, and N.G. Kanwisher, Discovering the structure of object
representation through data-driven fMRI analysis, in Gordon Research Conference on Neurobiology
of Cognition, 2010.
G. Langs, B. Menze, D. Lashkari, P. Golland, “How much trust do multi voxel patterns deserve?
Detection of multivariate brain activations,” in Human Brain Mapping 16th Annual Meeting, 2010.
B.T.T. Yeo, J. Sepulcre, M. R. Sabuncu, D. Lashkari, J. Roffman, J.W. Smoller, B. Fischl, H.
Liu, and R.L. Buckner, “Estimates of surface-based cortical networks using intrinsic functional
connectivity from 1000 subjects,” in Human Brain Mapping 16th Annual Meeting, 2010.
E. Vul, D. Lashkari, P. Hsieh, P. Golland, and N.G. Kanwisher, “Discovering the structure of object
representation through fMRI clustering,” In Society for Neuroscience 39th Annual Meeting, 2009.
D. Lashkari, E. Vul, N.G. Kanwisher, and P. Golland, “Discovering structure of object representation
in the ventral visual pathway from fMRI data,” in Human Brain Mapping 15th Annual Meeting,
2009. HBM Travel Award.
E. Vul, D. Lashkari, P. Golland, P.-J. Hsieh, N.G. Kanwisher, “Discovering the structure of object
representation through fMRI clustering,” in Journal of Vision, 9(8):797, 2009.
D. Lashkari, and P. Golland, “From clustering to co-clustering: generative model approach,” in
Snowbird 24th Learning Workshop, 2009. Invited Contribution.
Presentations IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Biomedical Image Analysis, San Francisco, CA, Jun. 2010.
Neuroimaging Analysis Methods Seminar Series, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ,
Apr. 2010.
Brain Map Talk, Martions Center for Brain Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA,
Mar. 2010.
Information Processing in Medical Imaging Conference, Williamsburg, VA, Jul. 2009.
Service
Executive Committee, MIT Graduate Student Council, (2009-10).
Institute Committee on Race and Diversity, MIT, (2007-8).
Student Member, IEEE (2001, 2005-2006, 2009-10), American Physical Society (2006), Organization
for Human Brain Mapping (2008-present), Society for Neuroscience (2010)
The international Human Network organization (http://www.h-network.org), (2004-present).
Executive Committee, the 4th Iranian Students Conference on Electrical Engineering (ISCEE2001).